[ n. an extreme heat that stretches the limits of the safety and familiarity ]
Transformative practices that move beyond the object of utility, often take risks that propel the maker and viewer into unfamiliar territory. The exhibition titled White Heat offers a space for discourses of social, political and cultural concern. The articulation of issues that may be personal or affect others has a strong presence in recent ceramic history and is often manifest with an understanding of clay, its materiality and process. Exploring ideas, while refusing to jettison matter, encapsulates a challenge to the modernist separation of meaning, making and materiality. Boundary-crossing practices such as these are engaging, and extend into risky territory, embracing the slippage between the domains of art, craft and design while confronting the topical, the contentious and the unexpected.
White Heat will coincide with the Australian Ceramics Triennale 09, with a special event on Sunday evening, 19 July at the Manly Art Gallery and Museum.
There has been an overwhelming response to a call for proposals for White Heat, which promises to be an exciting and provocative exhibition of issues-based sculpture, installation and non-functional ceramics.
Selected artists: Avi Amesbury, Penny Byrne, Lynda Draper, Kate Dunn, Bern Emmerichs, Fiona Fell, Honor Freeman, Madhulika Ghosh, Irene Grishin-Selzer, Chris Headley, Andrea Hylands, Virginia Jones, Dr Kathy Keys, Laura McEwan, Pru Morrison, Biljana Novakovic, Mel Robson, Avital Sheffer, Penny Smith, Liz Stops, David Tucker, Kenji Uranishi, Gerry Wedd, Rachael Williams and Meng-shu You
Selected artists will be paid $100 for their participation in the exhibition.
Exhibitors must be financial members of The Australian Ceramics Association.
