Alice Springs based ceramic artist Pip McManus uses both universal human symbols and images taken directly from nature to explore issues of identity and survival in a world of destruction and dispossession.
'Ichor [The ethereal fluid flowing in the veins of the gods, but poisonous to mortals]' was adjudged the winner of 35th Alice Prize 2008 by Susan McCulloch, who stated:
Ichor ...was for me, the stand out work. In this hour long DVD, an androgynous ancient-looking ceramic figure, to the perfect accompaniment of a cello, slowly fragments until it collapses into the earth from which it derives. Transformational and compelling, Ichor is also a work of great beauty, integrity and lasting visual impact and one which demonstrates McManus’s practice as a ceramicist developing in new and exciting realms. It is a very fine work of international standard.
