THERE are two parts to this large exhibition – a display titled “Forty years of making: pots I have kept”, and another of works made just this year, which are for sale.

The first display shows Greg Daly’s extraordinary talents. Three large platters – each approximately 90cm in diameter – are mounted at the entrance. The earliest is from 1989 and the most recent from 2005.

Numerous forms are exhibited including an early work from 1973, through to the present. One can see the evolution and development of Daly’s work, particularly the increasing use of lustre glazes. The works increase in size and in the rich, luscious surfaces – these are dramatic indeed. This is an outstanding opportunity to see how this ceramicist’s oeuvre has changed over forty years.

In the second room we are treated to 63 pots, all lustre glazed economical forms – large platters and panels, cylinders, bowls and spherical forms, as well as several wall panels. Daly’s studio is in Cowra, and the light is his main inspiration for the surface ornamentation of his work. The lustre glazes capture the changing moments of light – in the sky, on the ground, and in the distant hills, in the first and the last light, in mist and fog and in hot, blazing sun. Areas of matt surface create visual tension with the highly glossy and vivid colours. Throughout the day, the surfaces change with the light, and visitors should visit this exhibition at different times.

Daly is respected internationally for his work in lustre glazes, and as a potter. This exhibition is a narrative of his life to date in ceramics and demonstrates his outstanding control of form and glaze.