Jack Balfour

I'm a potter based in North Melbourne, Australia.

I make wheel thrown tableware, lidded boxes, vases, bottles and one-off decorative vessels. The work is available for purchase through my shop which is updated a few times a year.

My work is informed by classical Korean forms the Joseon Dynasty and Chinese celadon and chun glazes from the Song Dynasty.

I like to establish a connection to place through materials, Utilising local clay from construction sites, bottle glass, discarded bluestone, wood ash and shells to formulate glazes and colour clay bodies.

If you are interested in learning ceramics I teach at Neo Ceramics check out the class and course options.

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Teaching

2022 Ceramic Materials and Casting for Design - Monash University

2021 Wheel Throwing and Glaze Development - Neo Ceramics

Publications

2023 Fiveways Monogragh series on Australian potters who fire with wood Sandy Lockwood, Steve Williams, Zak Chalmers and Jann Kesby

2019  Refired - Jack Balfour, The Journal of Australian Ceramics, Vol 58 No 3, November.