Liz Low is transforming Gallery 3 at Craft Victoria into her ceramics studio. During May she will be building a group of pinnacles from wheel thrown porcelain and then in the first two weeks of June, placing them in water to allow them to return to the clay from which they started. These disintegrating forms will be contrasted with a static ‘end point’ group of completed and fired Sea Pinnacles.
The process of making and breaking down is at the core of the exhibition, where the creative fabrication and dissolution of form is visible and shared with the viewer. The making process for a potter is to build up the formless clay, then shape and erode. That same process is happening all the time, infinitely slowly, in geomorphology (earth shaping) and natural life forms.
Liz sees a link between these processes of building and erosion, especially on Victoria’s Southern coastline, and her own process of fabrication. She constructs her pinnacle forms by using small thrown porcelain bowls as building blocks. The form of the piece depends heavily on the form of the original thrown bowl and this provides interesting variations.
Opening Thursday 30 April, 6-8pm. Artist talks 5:30pm.
From 1 – 31 May, Low will be working in Gallery 3 Tuesday-Friday 11-3pm and Saturday 12-2pm.
Special event
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.
Date Tuesday 2 June, 6pm. All welcome.
Download attachments
Cycle catalogue (PDF)
Daily cycle updates on the Craft Victoria clog
About the artist
Liz Low graduated from RMIT in 2002 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Ceramics) Honours Degree, winning an RMIT/Siemens Fine Arts Travelling Scholarship in 2001. She has been selected twice for the Sydney Myer International Ceramics Award and exhibited nationally in selected exhibitions and awards. Liz won the 2007 Box Hill Community Arts Centre National Art Prize and several works have subsequently been acquired by The City of Whitehorse. Prior to her ceramics degree she taught English and Geography in secondary schools. Her interest in the natural landscape has developed into an imaginative expression of the life and changes which occur on the coastal edge.
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