A salute to Australian ceramics: a review of an exhibition curated by Janet Mansfield.(Fusions: Australian Network of Clay and Glass Artists)

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OCTOBER 17TH, 2008 SAW THE OPENING OF THE NEW Fusions Gallery and home of the Queensland Potters Association (QPA). The organization has now been officially renamed Fusions: Australian Network of Clay and Glass Artists. The former Potters Gallery was housed in a spectacular old church on the corner of Brunswick and Malt Streets at Fortitude Valley. The church was originally the Brisbane home of the Primitive Methodists, an evangelical movement within the English Methodist Church which is now virtually forgotten but existed from about 1812 until the early 1930s and still exists in a reduced form in America. Now long deconsecrated, the Church became the home of the QPA when they purchased the site in 1982 and became its gallery and administration centre until 2004 when it was decided that because the church was set back so far from the street, the passing traffic and pedestrians probably assumed it to be a still-functioning church and it failed to attract the public. The new Fusions Gallery has been built at street level in the front of the property and will house the gallery and all functions of the QPA. There are a number of both art and craft …