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Threads of Being: EASS 2023

where

Canberra Potters
Gallery

DATES

23 March to 23 April 2023

TIME

Tuesday to Saturday
10.00am–4.00pm
Sunday
11:00am–3:00pm

Opening: 6pm Thursday 23 April 2023 by Rod Bamford, Head of ANU School of Art & Design Ceramics Workshop.

The annual Emerging Artist Support Scheme (EASS) exhibition selects work from ANU School of Art & Design ceramics graduates from the previous graduating year. Threads of Being: EASS 2023 will present a group exhibition featuring the work of four 2022 graduates: Alicia Cox, Molly Desmond, Adeline Jeffery and Nathan Nhan.

Exploring themes of grief, gender and symbolism, identity and community, and materiality, the four artists represented create contrastive works which together present a strong exhibition showcasing some of the many forms, techniques and finishes that can be achieved with clay.

About the Artists:

Alicia Cox’s ceramic work explores the gendered symbolism of domestic functional objects and her connection to them. She creates familiar objects that are subverted via their affordances, in order to recode them from function to dysfunction. These objects silently protest against their intended purpose and therefore our preconceived notions of how they, and women, should behave.

Molly Desmond is an emerging artist working across ceramics and painting. Living and working on Ngambri and Ngunnawal Country, Desmond draws influence from the landscape and urban environments of the ‘Bush Capital.’ Completed during a residency at the Canberra Potter’s Society over the summer of 2023, this series of ceramic sculptures is led by material investigations to interrogate the symbiotic relationship of surface, form and colour through clay and glaze. Generated from a resource of memories and sensations, the objects explore the formal qualities of surface to contemplate the transient nature of perception. Desmond is currently undertaking an honours year in Visual Arts at the Australian National University School of Art and Design.

Adeline Jeffery’s work investigates the connection between group sharing and healing in response to traumatic life experiences. Those Left Behind draws on the personal recordings of a select group of family and friends that have dealt with the loss of a loved one to terminal illness and offers a space in which to reflect and find solace.

Nathan Nhan is a ceramicist whose practice uses experimental making and the ceramic process as a tool to create, investigate and manifest identities within his work. Responding to the inherent materiality and cultural significance of ceramics, Nhan reflects upon concepts of place, community, and identity from an Asian-Australian perspective. He often employs traditional vessels as a foundation, transforming historical forms into contemporary vehicles that play with the medium’s enduring epic narrative of both Eastern and Western perspectives imbued with personal stories and social commentary.

Tile image (front): Alicia Cox, Equal Share, glazed slip-cast porcelain.

Top image: Adeline Jeffery, Those Left Behind, slip cast porcelain.

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