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Sunday, 11 March 2018

the space between...connected

Group exhibition by
Sarah Ormonde
Joanne Searle
John Tuckwell
Grey Daly

21 February - 11 March 2018
Red Gallery Contemporary Art Space


There is a strong sense of landscape in the works of these four artists. Boundary, horizon line, colour, paddock, sky, river and climate are but a few of the abstract and beautiful qualities applied to surface of these artists' pots. The entire four galleries of this venue are devoted to ceramics and it was a treat to see work by makers from NSW in such abundance and quality.

the space between is like a ceramic masterclass, an exemplar on how the surface of clay may capture a personal and poetic sense of landscape.

John Tuckwell

River mouth #2, Australian porcelain, coloured with pigments & oxides
River mouth #2, Australian porcelain, coloured with pigments & oxides
Box #3, Australian porcelain, coloured with pigments & oxides
Memory Fragments, Australian porcelain, coloured with pigments & oxides
Cathedral rock 111, Australian porcelain, coloured with pigments & oxides

Sarah Ormode
Headland walk #1 & 2, high-fired in reduction, inlaid with oxides, decorated wit slips & oxides, dry glaze
Headland walk #1 & 2, high-fired in reduction, inlaid with oxides, decorated with slips & oxides, dry glaze

Headland walk #1 &2 (detail), high-fired in reduction, inlaid with oxides, decorated wit slips & oxides, dry glaze
Black wattle #6 & 5, high-fired in reduction, inlaid with oxides, decorated wit slips & oxides, dry glaze
Between the trees, down the forest road #1, high-fired in reduction, inlaid with oxides, decorated wit slips & oxides, dry glaze

Last Light #98, lustre glazed ceramics bowl
Dappled evening light, lustre glazed ceramics bowl
Horizon light, lustre glazed ceramics bowl
Red sunset, lustre glazed ceramics bowl

Joanne Seattle

Gudgenby Soundmark #117, stoneware, porcelain, stains
Gudgenby Soundmark #123 & 124, stoneware, porcelain, stains
Gudgenby Soundmark #14 & 18, stoneware, porcelain, stains
Gudgenby Soundmark #18, stoneware, porcelain, stains
Gudgenby Soundmark (detail), stoneware, porcelain, stains

Monday, 3 October 2016

Sarah Ormonde - Water Lines

Sensitive surface treatment in response to the precious rain in a dry land

 

21 September - 8 October 2016

Red Gallery 157 St Georges Rd, North Fitzroy

Even though it has been pissing down this month; water use, it's collection and the effects of climate change on our world and specifically in south-eastern Australia remains a prescient issue.  Ormode's surfaces are so cracklingly dry that I can imagine the smell eucalyptus oil, feel the head and dust and my throat becomes parched. This is a substantial exhibition allowing Ormode to express her visual themes across a range of sculptural forms. I particularly like the bowl vessels and they evoke collection of water and the rain gauge series is visually stunning but could have made use of further story telling evidencing measurement.
Installation view
Rain Gauge Series, porcelain, terracotta.



 Sarah used evocative titles for her vessels such as Soak, Wash,Store, Keep, Collect & Reservoir. 

Water Line Series




River Flow #1 & #2
Movement Makes The Richest Sense When Set Within A Frame of Stillness, drawing on canvas

Inside

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