Contemporary Australian Figurative Ceramics
- When 23 Apr - 17 May 1988
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Where
IVAN DOUGHERTY GALLERY
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Address
SELWYN ST, PADDINGTON NSW 2021
In Australia over the last twenty years many clay artists have explored the power of the figurative image, using it to express social and political concerns. Utilizing a wide vocabulary of ceramic materials and techniques, innovators have constructed images that investigate cultural and personal mythologies. The evolution of this work has been largely outside the formalist preoccupations of functional ceramics. Alternatively these artists have engaged in an enthusiastic mimicry of contemporary cultural icons and past figurative conventions to create new visions.
Artists
Suzanne Archer
Mark Bunder
Rebecca Chapman
Frederick Chepeaux
Noel Flood
Ray Hearn
Virginia Hollister
Els Houwen
Lorraine Jenyns
Gudrun Klix
Maria Kuczynska
Kathrin McMiles
Maggie McCormick
Alice Nixon
Jenny Orchard
Freya Povey
Guiseppe Raneri
Rachel Taylor
Liz Williams
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Curated by Kathrin McMiles and Virginia Hollister
Tour organised by Orange Regional Gallery
Sponsored by Australia Council

Images: Installation view, 'Contemporary Australian Figurative Ceramics', Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, 1988.