Warrick Palmateer

Collaborating with famous ceramic artist Pippin Drysdale, Palmateer creates porcelain forms that have helped to make Drysdale Australia's highest earning ceramicist.^[6] Drysdale credits him with being a key element in her success:

I always say, without Warrick my work wouldn't exist. I feel like the luckiest bunny in the world to have someone make me the beautiful forms to create my own journey on ... Words can't express my gratitude. But he has an incredible throwing skill and an incredible sense of form^[3]

Apart from his collaborative work with Drysdale, Palmateer also creates monumental forms on a theme of sea, rock and sand. Working with Perth brick making factories, Palmateer creates large coiled pots up to 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) tall and weighing 100 kilograms (220 lb) to 200 kilograms (440 lb) that require a forklift to move, and industrial brick kilns to fire.^[3] Palmateer, an avid surfer, is inspired by the sea and rock forms found on Western Australia's coast in the littoral zone – where land meets ocean, particularly the bleached limestone at Yanchep Beach.^[7] Palmateer uses mouldings and casting of textures from rocks, fossils and shells and uses them on the surface of the brick clay vessels.^[8]

• Pippin Drysdale and Warrick Palmateer together at the John Curtin Gallery
• Official website
• Palmateer works on Confluence exhibition at Brikmakers factory
• Palmateer works on Curtin University exhibition at Brikmakers factory