About
Stylishly simple yet deeply meaningful, Frances Smith's ceramic ware combines functionality with artistic expression.
"I use the finest Australian porcelain, adorning its pure white surface with hand-drawn illustrations—often depicting threatened and endangered species or the natural world around me."
Frances primarily works with porcelain, decorating it with elegantly simple black line work. She also incorporates bold underglaze colors in a woodcut style, further enhancing her pieces with gold lustre in a third firing.
Her larger sculptural works, often wheel-thrown and altered in shape, feature intricate incised reliefs that add depth and texture.
Frances also creates refined, traditional ceramic forms, showcasing the beauty of classic glazes such as celadon and chun as well as her own studio glazes.
- 2017 – Reminiscence touring exhibiton throughout regional Queensland
- 2016 – Centenary exhibition of poet Judith Wright's birth - Reminiscence (major ceramics exhibition)
- 2015 – Finalist in "Cream of the Crop" competition with a major ceramic work - Calanthe
- 2015 – Endangered series in the Artisans in the Gardens - Sydney Botanic Gardens
- 2015 – Manly Art Gallery and Museum "Metamorphosis" exhibition
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Featured Works
Windows into Australian Flora - modernist woodcut style
Hand thrown celedon tray with rosewater buscuits
Lidded porcelain box with Gouldian Finch
Ceramic coral necklace with rounded red beads
Resiliance - fertility, unity and strength in the age of me-too
Australiana - vase with wood-cut style decoration
Nested celedon bowls
Judith Wright Reminiscence - The Reef Series
Calanthe Lilly - finalist in the "Cream of the Crop"
Golden Salt Cellars
Reminiscence - Red Dawn from the Original Culture series
Hip-flask vases in polished raw porcelain with black slip-trailed illustration
Endangered Australian flora series
