RMIT Ceramics Graduate Exhibition

Object Based Practice

RMIT Building 4 Basement (Ceramics Studio)

Wednesday 23 November 2016

Exciting EOY exhibition by RMIT ceramics students. Impressive range of conceptual interests and ways of working with clay displayed here.

See-Mum Soo I Seek for Sanctuary, 2016 stoneware, porcelain, cord

Lucy Mactier, Various Envies,  2016 stoneware

Lucy Mactier, The Landscape of Love,  2016 stoneware

Samantha O'Farrell Freak Show1, Humanoid,  2016 eathernware

Alexandra Casey Glory, 2016 Southern Ice Porcelain, gold & silver lustre

Rebecca Smith Spring 2016 porcelain, sugar, jasmine, rose petals, egg whites, paper, gouache, copper, enamel

Janice Ng Identity Revealed  2016 porcelain

Tao Delves Untitled 2016 stoneware

Te Claire Series 1-11 2016 earthenware, underglaze, human hair, gouache, wood, glass, latex

Te Claire Torso & Fly 2016 earthenware, glaze, human hair, fly, latex, wax, cotton

Eva Giannoulidis Wallflower 2016 stonewarwe

Also part of the RMIT graduate night is Masters student Lesley Walsh

Lesley Walsh From One State To Another: From Disorder to Renewal

Two

Pottery by graduating Holmesglen Students

Alison Frith & Jessica Rae

Guild of Objects

November 2015

Snuck into this show early and Ali & Jess graciously allowed me to poke around.

Very impressive, consolidated work from these young graduates. Both potters work with an earthy palette as is the  current trend and use stoneware clay and glazes.

Jess' pillow vessels are industrial in form but softly domestic in scale with gently curving rims. Tricky making here; joining and inner and an outer form so seamlessly.

Ali really wows with her volcanic glazes. She reigns-in the eruption by containing this bubbling fury to the lids of perfectly restrains cylinders. The lunar-like effects balance harmoniously with her choice of satin glaze. I would love to see some wilder, deeper pits & holes on future work. 

It is devastating to hear that Holmesglen TAFE is closing its course when the diploma turns out talented and energetic potters as these Two.

Alison Frith installing at Guild of Objects first exhibition

Alison Frith

Alison Frith

Alison Frith

Jessica Ray

Jessica Rae

Benwell & Halpern

SAM Shepparton Art Museum 

October 2015

The superb 'wall of ceramics' display case at SAM is currently devoted to the work of two Melbourne potters Stephen Benwell & Deborah Halpern.

This duo is a brilliant combination, certainly not the first time they have been displayed together.  These works remain vital and shake off any lingering doubts about West Coast funk, or 80s cringe.

Congrats to SAM for a collection that has depth and longevity. Halpern's later work is represented by a mosaic sculpture. I'd love to see her get her hands muddy again and see what springs forth.

Installation is matched wonderfully with a contemporary wall piece. I wonder who did it?

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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