ABSENCE / PRESENCE
Year
2027
Gallery
Manly Art Gallery & Museum
SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW CLOSED.
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 TACA members. 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.
IMPORTANT DATES
Applications open: Tuesday 10 June 2026
Applications close: 28 September 2026, 5pm AEST
Artists notified: October 2026
Delivery of artwork to MAG&M: 1 April - 12 April 2027 *Works must be received by 13 April 2027
Exhibition opens: 16 April 2027
The Australian Ceramics Association
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PO Box 677 Alexandria NSW 1435
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