Materials and their behaviours perform a critical role in informing the practice of designer Simon Lloyd. Through the collection and examination of fragments, Lloyd continues to explore, clarify and emulate material gestures’ within the objects he has produced for Gleaning Potential.
Many hundreds of small fragments make up a collection of miniature resources, models through which ideas and concepts may be examined and later replicated. This collection comprising metal, wood, rubber, glass, paper, stone, flint, ceramic and others is housed within a small structure with a window through which one may view Lloyd’s material enquiries.
Opening: Thursday 30 April, 6-8pm
Artist talks 5.30pm
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This word-based collection of works by Natasha Dusenjko constitutes a series of incantations, codes and instructions scrolled around porcelain bones or thin spines. The porcelain bones are internal structures and vessels of ancestor memory. This memory is fluid; evasive; aquatic. The thin spines resemble futuristic Towers of Babel reaching into space, anticipating communication and new frontiers.
Ultimately, Babel evokes a spiral passage both outward and inward. To unravel the scrolls initiates a return to the spine – the axis mundi, the source of a universal native tongue – love.
Opening: Thursday 30 April, 6-8pm
Artist talks 5.30pm
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Ceramicist Liz Low sets up studio in Craft Victoria's Gallery 3, building a group of sea pinnacles from wheel thrown porcelain and allowing them to devolve into the formless clay from which they started. These disintegrating forms will then be shown alongside a completed group of fired sea pinnacles.
The process of making and breaking down is at the core of this exhibition, where the creative fabrication and dissolution of form is visible and shared with the viewer.
From 1– 31 May, Low will be in residence Tuesday to Friday 11am-3pm and Saturday 12-2pm.
Opening: Thursday 30 April, 6-8pm
Artist talks 5.30pm
To be opened by Anna Maas, Director, Skepsi on Swanston
Special event: Tuesday 2 June, 6-8pm
The second phase of Liz Low's exhibition cycle explores the devolution of form. Low's temporary studio will be packed up, making way for three completed and fired sculptures to be installed.
Water will be poured over the clay sculptures constructed in-situ, inaugurating their slow demise. Join us at Craft Victoria for the water pouring performance and the official launch of the catalogue accompanying cycle.
With guest speaker Kate Rhodes, Editor, Artichoke Magazine.
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