ABSENCE / PRESENCE
Year
2027
Gallery
Manly Art Gallery & Museum
TACA MEMBERS' EXHIBITION: ABSENCE / PRESENCE
EXHIBITION DATES: 16 April – 30 May 2027
The exhibition Absence / Presence will reflect on the theme of memory and the ways in which ceramics uniquely embody that theme. Clay can be a holder of memory; it carries deep geological time, and sensitively records touch and impression. Absence and trace can resonate in the material as powerfully as substance and form.
The small works in this exhibition will remind us that to work with clay is to engage in dialogue between material, maker, and viewer, and between the past and the present. In their compact scale and tactile immediacy, the ceramic works in this exhibition will ask us to come closer and become aware of bodily action in its many forms.
The exhibition will feature 80 small artworks by members of The Australian Ceramics Association (TACA). Each work will be no more than 15cm deep and wide, and no more than 30cm high.
The exhibition of selected artworks will be presented at Manly Art Gallery & Museum alongside the TACA exhibition Bodies of Evidence: Experimentation in Contemporary Australian Ceramics from 16 April – 30 May 2027.
Exhibiting Artists are:
Abi Sparks, Aedan Harris, Alessandro Di Sarno, Alterfact, Amelia Lynch, Amy McLaren, Amy Middleton, Amy Wale, Annie Tufts, Belinda Piggott, Bruce McWhinney, Camille Ducret, Carol Forster, Carole Driver, Cate Brown, Catherine Field, Cathy Hicks, Cathy McMichael, Cecily Willis, Charlotte Le Brocque, Chris Erlandsen, Clare Danby, Clare Unger, Deb Norwood, Debbie Hill, Diane Quick, Elizabeth Cashmore, Elizabeth Masters, Felicity Hall, Fiona Carter, Fran Romano, Gillian Martin, Greg Daly, Irene Grishin-Selzer, Jacqui Sosnowski, Janet Selby, Janine Brody, Jason Mak, Jay Richardson, Jenna Catchpole, Johanna De Maine/Tatsuya Tsutsui, Julie Nash, Katie Johnston, Kaye Poulton, Kaz Davis, Kim Nolan, Kim Power, Lilach Mileikowski, Louisa Hart, Mahala Hill, Mark Mitchell, Mason Reed, Megan McKenzie, Michelle Carr, Michelle Merrifield, Minna Graham, Mollie Bosworth, Natell Webb, Neville French, Park Juwon, Phil Greed, Philippa Taylor, Phillip Nielsen, Roshni Senapati, Sandra Black, Sara Meredith, Sarah Therese, Sarit Cohen, Sonali Patel, Steve Harrison, Sue Buckle, Sue Fraser, Susie Roberts, Sylvia Zi Xin, Tash Tribe, Vanessa Holle, Venessa Skye, Vicki Grima, Wendy Thurgate, Yegana Jafarova.
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