The Useful Set

Stephen McLaughlan Gallery 
21 February - 21 March 2015

The Useful Set opened on Saturday 21st February.

Curated by Emidio Puglielli, this gallery is the perfect venue for a show about domestic ceramics. This humble title, denotes a focus on utility and the works epitomise incredible ceramic skill and exemplary attention to the detail of objects to be held & used.

Zac Chalmers

Dawn Vachon

Alex & Nigel Shepherd for Blackseed

Phil Elson

Prue Venables

Sophie Moran & painting by Lisa Banks

Elizabeth Masters

Sharon Alpren

Yoko Ozowa

Jane Sawyer

Jeannine Hendy (this shot from the web as my exhibition shot was too dodgy to upload, sorry Jeannine!)

Wendy Reeve

Remarkable Rocks, Flinders Chase National Park, Kangaroo Island, South Australia

 
January 2015

A magnificent sculptural installation of granite forms hewn by wind salt sand water & time.

Welcome visitors from interstate - Kirsten Coelho & Stephen Bird November 2014

Kirsten Coelho

 Silent Interval

this is no fantasy gallery 

11 November - 13 December 2014

At This Is No Fantasy, Kirsten Coelho's exhibition Silent Interval is perfectly titled.

Tranquil arrangements of iron rimmed works of displaying the incredible ceramics craftsmanship that we expect.

New to this body of work is the creation of a saturated iron glaze inspired by red lacquer ware viewed during her recent residency in Japan. This glaze has an incredible fine crystalline depth to its russet hue.

Apologies for my crummy photos but please see more here: Silent Interval 

Stephen Bird

Once Upon a Time in New England

Gould Galleries

8 November - 6 December 2014

I have never seen Gould Gallery look so good. Stephen Bird's prolific output of ceramics & watercolours primarily made within the last three years fill the gallery to capacity.

It was particularly thrilling to see the watercolour paintings that inspire the decoration of vessel & sculptural forms.

Stephen's capturing of ephemeral smoke definitely intrigued!

More works here

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.