Pam Gray - 108 Cups, A Journal by Pam Gray, Xavier Gray (Photographer), Designed by Simon Gray (pgr001)
108 cups in 108 days - A Journal by Pam Gray
After a series of tragedies, illness and misunderstandings, Ceramic Artist Pam Gray decided to stop everything and focus on healing by reconnecting with nature and herself.
Taking her extensive knowledge of yoga and meditation and combining it with the seemingly simple act of creating small, yet functional ceramic cups, she transformed her daily practice into artistic expression.
This book documents each cup and the brief thoughts, mantras and verses that came to her as she shaped them.
AUTHORS: Pam Gray, Photography by Zavier Gray
PAGES: 234
DIMENSIONS: 140mm x 210mm
PUBLISHER: Studio108
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2025
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Pam Gray is a ceramics artist, yoga instructor and writer living in the Perth hills, Western Australia. She draws upon nature in mindful moments as her biggest inspiration, spending many a day floating in her local rivers, hiking, foraging, subjecting mushrooms to microscopic study and building in clay.
From her youth, Pammy has always had a strong passion for the environment. She was an activist and taught courses for families in adopting practical permaculture. After being diagnosed with Endometriosis, she turned to the natural world and the relationship between art and science for emotional healing.
Pammy created studies of Australian plants, fungi and seaweeds. This combined field studies and microscopy with watercolour, lino printing and ceramic art in the hope of encouraging people back to the natural world. Through this work, Pammy's interest in ceramics grew. Drawing on her years of experience as a qualified yoga teacher, she committed to almost 4 months of Sadhana, where she would practice daily yoga and mala meditations of 108 breath rotations, while forming a ceramic cup, and keeping a daily journal of mantra, poems and musings.
She found great comfort through the 108 cups practice, leading her to both physical and emotional healing, a renewed gratitude for Sadhana, as well as a powerful need to create with clay.
This item is available in Store at Midland Junction Arts Centre and at Mundaring Arts Centre.
