Gerry Wedd: Kitschen Man – Jam Factory Icon

An huge overview of Gerry's cultural concerns. 

Delighted, challenged and always moved by Gerry's Australian Gothic series. Sculptural figurines are talking points that are tough, moral and universal such as vignette's from Wake in Fright, the Abu Ghraib torture victim and the melancholy of willow pattern decoration & landscape.

Round of applause for a true alt-country and independent music fan and all the images and text devoted to Gerry's favourite musicians. Urns also include representations of surfing fanaticism, and political passions.

Kitschen Man shows us that Gerry is an artist who feels and thinks deeply.  He continues to push his craft into fresh realms. Grayson Perry describes the job of an artist is to 'notice things'. Gerry notices, distills and presents us with a world that is both wonderful and horrible using the clay surface as a dark mirror.

Wednesday 8 February – Saturday 18 March 2017

Manningham Art Gallery
687 Doncaster Rd, Doncaster, Victoria
 

Heads

Voyager Pot, 2016 coil built, cobalt decorated earthenware

Gram Pot, 2016 hand built, slip decorated earthenware

Australian Gothic tableau & 'personal' works from Wedd's kitchen on the back wall including peer potters & family.

The Magnificent Three

Three Ceramicists From Three States

Craft 

23 October - 29 November 2014

Sarah O'Sullivan

Vestige

http://www.craft.org.au/See/exhibitions/sarah-osullivan/

Vestige by Sarah O'Sullivan calls on the nostalgia of modernist ceramic installed in a reproduction Edwardian sitting room. Accomplished decorative technique ranged across vase forms, framed images and domestic utensils.

Gerry Wedd

Pot Culture

 Gerry Wedd's Pot Culture celebrates Melbourne's independent & alternative rock roots. The exhibition includes a flowchart of musical influences, punctuated with cobalt painted portraits.

Nick Cave was a compulsory inclusion and an ode to Gerry's passion for surfing in this substantial feat of hand building & painting.

http://www.craft.org.au/See/exhibitions/pot-culture/

 

Kate Jones

Being

http://www.craft.org.au/See/exhibitions/being/

Being Kate Jone's exhibition displayed her increasing prowess with enlarged scale & the addition of darkly gloss glazes alongside her sensitive use of subtly coloured engobes and terrasigillata.

  

Gerry Wedd @ Basil Sellers

Art Nite 

Staying out all night, wandering around chilly, beautiful Melbourne, looking at art, architecture & creative spaces including:

Gerry Wedd's work in Basil Sellers Art Prize at the Ian Potter Gallery, Carlton.

Have been watching these fellas being decorated for months on Gerry's Facebook listing. It was great to meet them in person.

Brilliant work Gerry.