Raku… The Fire Dance

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Raku… The Fire Dance

Michael Reid Clay is thrilled to welcome back ceramic artist Tina Psarianos with a new series of work titled Raku…Fire Dance.

The artist’s Raku…Fire Dance series is a beautiful rumination on the alchemy that arises from the meeting of natural elements with the hand of the artist – a dynamic inherent to the medieval Japanese clay-firing technique that gives the collection its title.

“The monochromatic palette allows the forms to speak boldly through contrast, texture and shadow,” says Psarioanos, reflecting on the surface effects that emerge through raku’s highly precarious dance with fire. From sporadic spots and squiggles to delicate, jigsaw-like markings, these exquisite details derive from the artist’s masterful movement between two distinct raku techniques, both honed over 12 years of practice.

“Due to a high attrition rate from breakage caused by abrupt thermal shocks, the excitement in creating each surviving piece is heightened, making them even more valued and prized.”

Please contact colinesoria@michaelreid.com.au to receive a preview catalogue.

Gus Clutterbuck ‘Double Happiness’

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Gus Clutterbuck ‘Double Happiness’

  • Artist
    Gus Clutterbuck
  • Dates
    26 Sep—7 Oct 2024
  • Gallery Location
    Northern Beaches

Gus Clutterbuck specializes in porcelain, creating a diverse array of objects, large painted forms, and expansive installations. His practice involves both hand-building techniques and the use of molds crafted from found objects. Additionally, Gus produces miniature mixed-media works on paper, which are significantly enlarged to form limited-edition prints.
Gus’ work is deeply influenced by his experiences, including his time spent in remote Indigenous communities, residencies in China, and an engagement with domestic life. His blue and white porcelain paintings are executed using traditional Chinese brushes and cobalt stains, blending Chinese symbolism with elements of Australiana. Recently, Gus has shifted his focus to elemental forms such as sticks, which he uses to explore themes related to mental health, landscape, and the arboreal motif found in Chinese art.

Central to his practice are themes of family and country. Gus’ art is deeply rooted in personal experiences and emotional connections to places he considers home, ranging from Kununurra in Western Australia to Jingdezhen in China and, more recently, Prospect in Adelaide. His dedication to reconciliation is evident in her work with Indigenous Australia, which has profoundly influenced her artistic approach.

Un/Natural

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Un/Natural

Eora/Sydney-based ceramic artist Elizabeth Lewis has returned to Murrurundi with a bold and brilliant new collection of sculptural clay pieces titled Un/Natural.

An alumnus of Kil.n.it Experimental Ceramic Studios, Lewis has exhibited across Australia and internationally, most recently with the first instalment of Un/Natural at Michael Reid Murrurundi.

Exploring collage, coiling and hand-building techniques to create her work, Lewis is interested in using materiality and archetypal vessel forms to examine how objects can contribute to a greater sense of wonder and connectedness with history.

A mix of writhing, organic elements with classical urn-like structures invites a dynamic interplay between history and modernity, wildness and control, nature and culture, and the balance of malleability and hardness inherent to her medium.

The artist’s stylised vessels and sculptural vessels command attention with their voluptuous forms, playfully off-kilter proportions and striking palette of intensely pigmented pastels enriches by soft tonal gradations and moments of metallic sheen.

For enquiries, please email colinesoria@michaelreid.com.au

Sasa Scheiner ‘OVERFLOW’

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Sasa Scheiner ‘OVERFLOW’

  • Artist
    Sasa Scheiner
  • Dates
    28 Aug—8 Sep 2024
  • Gallery Location
    Northern Beaches

Sasa’s work has steadily evolved over the years with a refinement and an elegance that is pared back and free of artifice. The shapes are simple with a mix of perfectly balanced vulnerability and strength. Sasa’s signature ash glazing and the actual weight of the hand-coiled pieces further add to this play. The forms have a bodily human quality – the natural imperfections and subtle shifts in colour sweep across the surface, reminiscent of skin. The way these beautiful sculptural pieces are made communicate their solidity and unapologetic power.

All the pieces for ‘OVERFLOW’ are imbued with a feminine power – in their form and feel. These works were made at the time of Sasa becoming a grandmother. The overwhelming outpouring and receiving of love – the flow- is what is felt. The widening of the openings of these vessels suggests a greater capacity for and experience of the movement and flow of love and life between all beings and generations. At this moment of Sasa’s journey as an artist and as a mother and grandmother the works are expressions of Sasa’s inner and outer world. Simple yet profound. 

Into the Red

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Into the Red

Micharl Reid Murrurundi is thrilled to present Rachel Falls Williams‘ first exhbition Into the Red.

Journeying into the ancient red land of the Pilbara region.

This body of work is a response to a self-funded residency in the Pilbara and seeks to capture the unique colours, textures and details of these dramatic landscapes. From high on hilltops, to deep within the gorges, this work explores both the intimacy and vastness of this place.

The iron rich red of the Hamersley Ranges. The soft veil of spinifex. Rugged landforms and sweeping plains. Formed and then deeply weathered and eroded over millions of years. A literal exploration of the geology and vegetation of the region.

Each work is both functional and an expression of materiality. The slips and glazes incorporate materials sourced on location in the Pilbara including; Snakewood (Acacia xiphophylla) ash collected from the firepit and found iron rich clay and inclusions.

A quiet celebration of the beauty, power and fragility of this ancient landscape.

Please email colinesoria@michaelreid.com.au to receive a preview PDF catalogue.

EOFY EDIT

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EOFY EDIT

  • Artist
    Beanie Aldrett Fleming, Elizabeth Lewis, Jan Downes, Rina Bernabei, Lisa Geue and more
  • Dates
    27 Jun—9 Jul 2024
  • Gallery Location
    Northern Beaches

We are excited to present a specially curated selection of beautiful, original and affordable ceramics in our End of Financial Year Edit. This exhibition of exceptional paintings and ceramics sees our expert curatorial team act as your personal art shopper, assembling a diverse collection of exquisite, unique pieces to suit every style and space.

Introducing fabulous layers of colour and texture to their surroundings, each artwork has been judiciously chosen not just for its inherent beauty and collectability but for the way it will assuredly elevate and enliven any interior scheme, introducing an appealing sense of pace, panache and a point of focus to delight and dazzle the eye.

The tremendously talented artists featured in this dynamic assembly include many of the most beloved names in our stable of regular exhibitors – all selected for our gallery program by curator and author Amber Creswell Bell. From boldly expressive works of abstraction to elegant still-life paintings and hand-formed clay vessels, our EOFY Edit offers a rare and unmissable opportunity to acquire original, affordable, collectable works by some of Australia’s brightest art stars.

If you have been thinking about acquiring a work of art for your space, this special, limited-time offer means now is the perfect opportunity.

Reimagining, Remaking

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Reimagining, Remaking

Michael Reid Clay is thrilled to welcome back Hana Vasak with a new series of work titled Reimagining, Remaking.

Reimagining, Remaking is a collection of pieces that are grounded in the lived experience, merging an endless fascination with the ocean, Greek mythology and the classical form of the amphora.

The inspirations take cues from the Baroque period. Elements derived from this visual style embrace colours that are sensuously rich and works that are ornate in nature.

Expression of exploration into working with clay in its natural state gives way to the beautiful diversity of texture, tone and colour.

This collection is a continued series of a body of work that is embedded in exploration into the artist’s love for reimagined ceramic forms. Inspired by diverse historical periods and merged with memories of places visited. Pieces are reimagined and remade for a contemporary context. They embrace both the past and present.

Please email colinesoria@michaelreidclay.com.au to receive a preview catalogue.

Shelf Life

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Shelf Life

  • Artist
    Cathy McMichael
  • Dates
    12—30 Jun 2024
  • Gallery Location
    Murrurundi

We are delighted to announce the return of Cathy McMichael to the Michael Reid Clay program.

Following her beautiful showing in the Pour group exhibition curated by Vicki Grima at Michael Reid Northern Beaches last August, McMichael is back with an exquisite new collection of vessels that celebrate the perfect beauty of timeworn imperfection.

Through a skilful and unique approach to ceramics, the artist evokes the nuanced textures of aged and corroded surfaces with gently mottled, worn and variegated patinas that emote elegance, gravitas and grace.

McMichael experiments with rust, oxidation and patination in her glazes, with shadows of dark clays emerging through her work’s tumbled, tarnished, rough-hewn finishes in deep olive greens, mottled mustard, glossy jade and deep rust.

The result is a fabulous interplay between her contemporary sensibilities and an eye for the earthy romanticism and moody historicism of classical artifacts and ancient relics weathered by time.

By playing up the graceful irregularities of the handmade, this collection of pieces forms a perfect complement to Stacey McCall’s new series of quietly sublime, artfully undone still-life paintings, ‘Breathwork’, which is showing concurrently at Michael Reid Murrurundi.

Cathy McMichael’s work is paired with Stacey McCall‘s latest exhibition, Breathwork.

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