Speckle Beaker - Tara Shackell grandson of a trumpet player

grandson of a trumpet player on the White Star Line and son of a jazz musician who became a successful radio dance band vocalist

both are pursued by persons and forces they do not know and cannot understand

Precious Rain

morbidly fascinating and mordantly funny

and coast-to-coast routes

Speckle Beaker - Tara Shackell grandson of a trumpet playerTara Shackell Speckle Beaker Tara Shackell is a ceramicist based in Melbourne, Australia. Thrown on the wheel or hand built, Taras stoneware and porcelain pieces explore the relationship between form and surface, and the subtle interactions which can occur between the clays and glazes. Her current work focuses on creating simple, functional objects that express materiality, quietness and space. Tara is interested in the relationship of objects to one