NEXT EXHIBITIONS
Opening: Saturday 16 August, 4 to 6 pm
16 August / 21 September 2025
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gallery one
PAUL WHITE
Shades and fades
Paul White, Love Bug (Flower Power), 2025, pencil on paper with acrylic aerosol, 150 x 108 cm
Honor Freeman, the me the not me, 2024, porcelain, gold lustre, 9 x 21 x 22 cm (photographer: Craig Arnold)
Clay is a material that embodies both control and chaos.
Ideas of containment occupy the making and embrace clay's capricious nature in this suite of work. Familiar & Strange plays with ruptures, leaks, and growths, highlighting the tensions between material dualities: soft/hard, beautiful/ugly, fragile/durable, liquid/solid.
Ordinary and seemingly insignificant items intimately connected with the body—chewing gum, soap, towels, hot water bottles—are cast in porcelain and transformed, becoming strange souvenirs and nostalgic relics from the domestic landscape. These ubiquitous objects, caught
between discarded beauty and unsettling decay, reflect their leaking and rupturing states.
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ceramic space
