Mapfara visited me at my St. Kilda studio yesterday. Accompany by Kevin Murray from Craft Unbound (who is also a photographer of the image show above). Chris Headley and I warmly welcomed him into our studio and showed him around. I have chocolate cake and Rocky Road waiting for them.
Mapfara impressed with our ceramic materials and tools. He particular interested in colour statin when he saw Stephen Benwell work. He is also a painter so he interested in ceramic painting technique so he can try it on his ceramic work. H is also very keen to get his hand on clay again. He is now sharing a studio with Ann Ferguson, a ceramic artist, in Collingwood. Mapfara made a comment that his new studio (in Australia) is quite far away from home where he stay (he ride a bike to studio). In Maputa, where he came from, he has a big studio attach to his house. Hmmm, i wish i have that sort of studio too.
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Thanks for that Vipoo. I learnt yesterday that Mapfara is the first Mozambican to ever win a Commonwealth Foundation award, so it's an incredible life-time opportunity for him, having never been out of Mozambique before. He has so much to learn, and we may need a little patience while he does so.
thank you kevin :) I hope he enjoy Australia. I think he is going to Finland next!
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