Wild: Contemporary Antiques - David Ray

Ray's first exhibition with this new venue showing this artist at his most delightfully eccentric. Eleven  pieces of tableware are spread around the retail space, including a full setting on a french oak table

Franque is a highly styled space, not completely gallery nor retail space. Artist include: Bruce Armstrong, David Ray, Kate Rohde, Anna Varendorff.

The dinner service is a devised as a functional object to hold food. Mine isn't, it is instead a wild, untamed interpretation of a dinner service, servicing conversation. - David Ray 2017

Franque

597 Malvern Road, Toorak

www.franque.com.au

Franque harkens back to an era predating the white-wall gallery; situating collectible pieces in a space where art coexists, collides and harmonises with objects and antiques, in both a showroom and dining space.
Since Franque’s inception in late 2011, clients have embraced this unique art space, which supports both emerging and established artists. Franque is not a gallery, nor does it seek to compete as one. It is an alternative platform for viewing and collecting Australian art.
Franque offers a genuine intimacy with art - from the way the works are displayed, through to the artists’ engagement in the Franque cultural life. - Franque website

Table setting

View & Spoon

Eden, 2017

Salt & Pepper, 2017

Mop Up Your Plate, 2017

Wild Tureen, 2017 front window space

David Ray: Trickster

Anna Pappas Gallery
7 April - 9 May 2015

Exciting solo exhibition by David Ray at his new gallery-home Anna Pappas.
Ray continues to play loosey-goosey with his construction technique this time using torn clay pieces.
This construction give the work a light touch and dynamic energy that would make Duchamp & Boccioni proud.
Trickster also includes his familiar vessel works, loaded with decal and hand painted details.

Gallery view

Gargantuan

Ivan Grape

Figure 1

Flowers

Some old modernist fellas

Jester

Urn

Oxygen

DAVID RAY: TRICKSTER
A sense of fragility and slap-dash nonchalance plays out among this fantastic new collection of ceramic sculptures by David Ray. His urns, vessels and figures draw upon traditional, finely honed techniques and skill sets, only to subvert and generally screw around with form. His figures are wonderfully deft and sophisticated in their sense of proportion and gesture, yet their details and construction – shavings, flakes and blobs of earthenware – are unlikely in their messiness. Some of the vessels utilise found objects and decals, while other bask in bizarre, abstracted enamel detailing. The figures take a particularly larrikin form – as the show's title alludes – and are a highlight. NGV curator Max Delany wasn't wrong when he recently suggested that wonky ceramics were the new video, but an artist like Ray shows the difference between good and bad grunge. These works are astute and chaotic, clever and goofy; we read them as fragile, antiquated objects and unapologetic shits and giggles.
Until May 9; Anna Pappas Gallery, 2-4 Carlton Street, Prahran, 9521 7300, annapappasgallery.com


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