About

Background

Potter Marianne Annereau has taught hand building and decoration techniques at Tresillian Art Centre, a small local community art centre, where she picked up most of her own skills in the traditional art of pottery.

Ceramics Practice

She works with clay on a daily basis (obsessively). Her her portfolio is comprised of hand built pieces, pottery thrown creations and and slip cast designs.

Annereau mainly makes cremation urns ceremoniously. Week in week out, she makes small batches of urns that she fires in her own electric kiln. Occasionally she makes biographical pieces, and creations on the topic of ‘Australian culture’.

Annereau gains satisfaction from working with a broad range of clay types including porcelain, stoneware and raku. She also uses slips or liquid clays.

She formulates her own glaze recipes by baking hundreds of glaze test tiles. Her speciality is variegated glazes. These glazes are translucent and reveal the qualities of the clay bodies. The glaze and clay react together to produce streaks, crystals, mottles, rivulets and luminescence.

Precious metals such as gold and platinum adorn Annereau’s wares adding an extra element of luxury, opulence and wonder.

While the world sleeps Annereau counteracts insomnia from complex PTSD with art. You can find Annereau in her studio in the middle of the night. She spends hours making ceramic pieces uninterrupted when the moon is out.