Dean Smith's solo show exemplifies his mastery of matt crystalline glaze. Look carefully at the seamless additions of fused glass. I particularly like his vertical, 'pillowy-soft' vessel to show of his sublte glaze palette & crystal patterning.
4-22 April 2017
Alcaston Gallery
11 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy,Melbourne, Victoria, 3065 Australia
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| Entombment 11 (detail), 2017, Fine stoneware, porcelain, thrown hand-built, matt crystalline glaze, fused-glass enamel, h.26cm |
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| Pink Terrace, 2017, fine stoneware, feldspathic glaze, pigment glass enamel-fused, gold leaf and pigment applied |
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| Self Preservation 11, 2017, Cordierite refractor, Kangaroo bone, feldspathic glaze, glass enamel & pigment-fused |
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| Permanence, 2017, Fine stoneware, porcelain, thrown hand-built, matt crystalline glaze, fused-glass enamel |
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| Primitive Equations11, 2017, stoneware, porcelain, thrown hand built metallic glaze, fused-glass enamel, oil paint, h. 22cm |
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| Black 11 , 2016 fine stoneware, micro crystalline glazes, glass enamels, applied gold leaf, h. 61cm |
The Pink Terrace was once a large and
beautiful silica deposit in New Zealand, created by chance and destroyed
by chance, possibly by an eruption of Mount Tarawera.
A place exists and then doesn’t exist.
For this exhibition I have made some
slab-built vessels, moving away from the familiarity of the wheel-thrown
form as the sole basis for my work. As I build the work my thoughts are
around structures, chambers or tombs - permanent structures housing the
impermanent/ the permanent structure erased by the forces of
nature/beauty and fragility.
- Dean Smith, 2017
(from website)
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