Susan Robey: Inhabit

Susan Robey, Conehead Pair, 2010 Susan Robey, Conehead Pair, 2010

Exhibitions
21 January – 5 March 2011
Gallery 1

Architectural structures explore movement and gesture in new ceramic work.

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Inhabit considers issues of architectural space and investigates ways that movement, gesture and character may be represented. Manipulating structural elements such as walls, windows and columns, Robey uses paper thin clay slabs to construct small idiosyncratic architectural forms. The works explore the tension between the inert quality of ‘architecturalness’ and the animation of living beings.

Susan Robey is a Melbourne based ceramic artist and architect. She has completed degrees in Architecture at the University of Sydney and a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art (Ceramics) at RMIT University. Robey has exhibited extensively in Australia and overseas and in 2005 was an Australia Council Resident Artist in Rome. Inhabit is the continuation of Robey’s unique reinvention of architectural form and the application of building methods to ceramic art practice.

Of the many definitions of ’animate’, I am particularly interested in ‘to fill with life’ and ‘to make as to create the illusion of motion’. Words such as scuttle, sneak, and perch come to mind, borrowed from the animal and insect world. In addition to support, I believe it is the legs which have enabled the objects to develop individual personalities. In the making order, they are attached last and therefore suddenly the objects appear to be lifted to life.
Susan Robey


Resources
Opening speech by Fiona Hiscock, ceramicist
Essay by Ramona Barry

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Photography: Lily Feng


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