Bling Bling Exhibition

Bling Bling embraces the aesthetic, excessive and sometimes derided aspects of bling, celebrating spectacle while inviting viewers to consider the deeper cultural, personal and artistic meanings that underpin the works.

Bling is both sparkle and contradiction. This exhibition explores the duality of adornment and cultural commentary through contemporary ceramic art.

Liz Crowe works with lustres, copper wire, shiny glazes and engobes to explore her love of colour and texture, with touch and the tactile central to her hand-built and wheel-thrown vessels and wall pieces.

Lee Nelms walks the tightrope between functional and sculptural, with her colourful and playful forms becoming containers for memory, humour and vulnerability.

Loosely inspired by a mid-century aesthetic, Jacqui Keogh leans into quirkier forms finished with heavy metallic glazes and lustres applied to carved surfaces in repetitive and block patterns that hold the past and the present.

Crowe, Nelms and Keogh met at Old Saint Luke’s Studio in Gundaroo, where a shared commitment to clay sparked an enduring creative friendship — realised here in their first collaborative exhibition.

Exhibition Dates
15 May to 14 June 2026

Gallery Hours
Tuesday to Friday: 10am–4pm
Saturday and Sunday: 10am–2pm
Closed Monday

Location
Canberra Potters Gallery
Watson Arts Centre
1 Aspinall Street, Watson ACT

Entry
Free

Image: Bling Bling exhibition image 2026, photographer Anne Stroud