Today 24th July 2008 I lost my enitre mailing list and no I hadn't backed it up for a couple of years and I can't find that disc. I have been putting the list together since 1991. If you wish to be on my list or have been could you please email your postal address to sixmaxs@bigpond.com This is not very good timing as the show in Melbourne opens on the 15th August at Skepsi Gallery.

If you are looking for a Gallery that represents leading Australian Studio Ceramics this is the place for you. Located at 120 Glenmore Rd Paddington, John Freeland has a wonderful collection of recent and past work of all the leading potters in the country. He also has some very beautiful antique wares as well. This gallery is definitely worth a visit.

Cudgegong Gallery are showing my pots in a solo exhibtion which will last the summer season. It is a wonderful Gallery and the pots look very beautiful in there. Always a pleasant suprise to see them out of the workshop and properly lit and given space to speak for themselves.

Kings Gallery Studio in delightful Milton on the south coast of N.S.W. the "Escape Art Fest" They are having a Scuplture show and tied in with that a pottery show of which I am part. Also showing on the pottery front are Chester Nealie, Daniel Lafferty, Su Hanna, Simon Bowley, Clarissa Regan, Vicky Robinson and the Nulladulla Potters. The address of the Gallery is 328 Princes Hwy Milton( midway between Milton and Ulladulla).

Having returned from China 2 months ago I have had to settle down and work quite hard to pull together an exhibition for the Freeland Gallery. That is not to say that I didn't have the nuts and bolts together before I left. China was wonderful. Alot of challenging work and being away from all that is familiar. The food and care of us while we were in Fuping was fabulous. We were invited to return to work if we so desire and I may easily take up that wonderful invitation at some time in the future. After my return I travelled down to Victoria to fire with Owen Rye and a week after returning from there I travelled to Gulgong to fire with Janet Mansfield. I had some beautiful pots come out of both firings and they will be on Show at the Freeland Gallery in September.

Last year a group of potters were invited to China and I was one of them. The rest of the group are Janet Mansfield, Chester Nealie, Owen Rye and I think Steve Williams may be joining us as well. The other day I booked and paid for my ticket and today I started with my innoculations so it really is happening. I am wildly excited about it as I have never been away overseas to work before. I am also feeling a bit tentative about it because I will be very out of my comfort zone as far as work goes, let alone everything thing else to do with travel.Still what a fantastic opportunity and it kind of closes a circle in my life. My father lived and worked as a seaman in China before and during the revolution. It was there he became interested in Pottery and now all these years later I will be in China to make pots for a month. The pots we make are to be put into the Australasian Museum at Fu Ping, which is near Xian in central China. There is a web site. If you google up FLICAM you will find all the information there.