Wednesday 28 February 2018

Klytie Pate Award 2018


Delighted to be selected to participate in the Kyltie Pate Award again this year. 

Klytie Pate Award and Exhibition 
Opening Tuesday 6 March 6pm (speeches at 6:30)
Exhibition 7-14 March open daily 10am to 4pm
MAG - 4 Highett Street
Mansfield Vic 3722
Tel 0407 664 202


This year's entry is part of a new body of work that continues to look at the contours, colours of landscape particular around the high country around Mansfield and Merrijig.

Entitled River Vessel, this pot also brings in the colours and rhythmic textures of the Delatite River. 




Material Memories Exhibition - Two Influential Women


Material Memories Statement

I remember a bleached white sky melding with the sea in the heat of the day which by evening was consumed by a sea mist that rolled in and stayed until morning. I peered over sheer cliffs made from a stone so hard it refuses to crumble but remains vertical and awesome. I marked the land for four days, carrying sustenance through this coastal landscape, footstep after footstep measuring the distance with a physical action of my body, accumulating memories of this place. 

Afterwards I ask:
How can the ceramic process and clay material embody the place?

This question arises and is a response to two influential works from the QVMAG collection by Tasmanian women, Bea Maddock who was born in Hobart and Trucanini of the Nuenonny Clan. 

Bea Maddock’s 'Terra Spiritus... With a Darker Shade of Pale', 1993-1998 is a circumlittoral incised drawing in of the entire coastline of Tasmania, each geographic feature is labelled with both the English and the aboriginal Tasmanian topographic names. The pigments used to make the colour the paper are native Tasmanian ochres. Trucanini’s Woven basket, c.1870, uses fibres of the White Flag Iris, which is particular to the eastern coast of Tasmania. 

Both these women make objects with an extricable connection to coastal Tasmania through lived experience and through use of local geology and vegetation. Both works use hand skill to create, making the maker and the time spent making evident and present in the wo






Trucanini, Woven basket, c 1870, fibres of the white flag iris 
(Probably the last basket made by Tasmanian Aboriginal women Trucanini (Nuenonny Clan)

Bea Maddock, TERRA SPIRITUS ... with a darker shade of pale 1993-1998
hand-ground ochre and blind letterpress on 52 sheets
(a-zz) 26.5 x 76.0 cm (image and sheet) (each)