MANIFEST

The work in this show is meant to be seen not only as a diverse collection of objects but as representing different strategies makers employ to place their objects in the world. As a curator I was interested in taking the whole of practice into consideration and mixing it up a little; one might find an installation made by an established practitioner next to pots made by a social-media star rubbing shoulders with ceramics made by an artist who lives and works in a remote indigenous community. Maybe that’s just one person.

I am constantly amazed by the way this muddy and recalcitrant material, clay, keeps getting under people’s skin, or at least their fingernails. A constant phrase one hears in a shared workshop is the lament, ‘who would be a potter?’, an utterance usually associated with the opening of a kiln and accompanied by several other unprintable epithets. Well, it seems that lots of people are still willing to take on the challenge and I see nothing but opportunity (maybe a bit of frustration?) for those who do. I hope the viewer gets a sense of the range of possibilities out there by seeing some great work, that the participants find the exercise to have been of some value and that as a curator I’ve allowed some space in between the work to be populated by new ideas, new relationships and new possibilities.

-Damon Moon (curator)

Artists:

Connie Augoustinos

Julie Bartholomew

Alison Milyka Carroll

Kris Coad

Greg Daly

Andrei Davidoff

Honor Freeman

Ebony Heidenreich

Neil Hoffmann

Nicolette Johnson

Annemieke Mulders

不 NOT

Serena Rosevear

Susan Simonini

Zoe Slee

Jimmy K Thaiday

Dawn Vachon

Steve Williams

Alana Wilson