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[ n. an extreme heat that stretches the limits of the safety and familiarity ]

Transformative practices that move beyond the object of utility, often take risks that propel the maker and viewer into unfamiliar territory. The exhibition titled White Heat offers a space for discourses of social, political and cultural concern. The articulation of issues that may be personal or affect others has a strong presence in recent ceramic history and is often manifest with an understanding of clay, its materiality and process. Exploring ideas, while refusing to jettison matter, encapsulates a challenge to the modernist separation of meaning, making and materiality. Boundary-crossing practices such as these are engaging, and extend into risky territory, embracing the slippage between the domains of art, craft and design while confronting the topical, the contentious and the unexpected. Your concerns may be the human condition, the environment, consumerism or a critique of ceramics practice. What risks do you take through your practice?

Dr Julie Bartholomew, Curator of White Heat, President of The Australian Ceramics Association

Artists:

Avi Amesbury, Penny Byrne, Lynda Draper, Kate Dunn, Bern Emmerichs, Fiona Fell, Honor Freeman, Madhulika Ghosh, Irene Grishin-Selzer, Chris Headley, Andrea Hylands, Virginia Jones, Dr Kathy Keys, Gudrun Klix, Laura McEwan and Liz Stops, Pru Morrison, Biljana Novakovic, Mel Robson, Avital Sheffer, Penny Smith, David Tucker, Kenji Uranishi, Gerry Wedd, Rachel Williams and Meng-shu You

Directions from National Art School:

Manly Gallery, The Esplanade, Manly.
From the bus stop on Oxford St opposite Palmer St. Take any bus going to Circular Quay. [13 mins approx]
Then walk down to the Quay from the bus stop [Young St, 480 metres, Phillip St, 392 metres]. Take the Manly ferry from No. 3 Wharf [goes every half-hour, takes 30 mins.]  At Manly, turn left as you come off the wharf and walk along the Esplanade to the end of the beach. [280 Metres]. The Gallery is at the end of The Esplanade.
To return:  Walk to wharf and take ferry to Circular Quay. At Circular Quay walk to Stand E and take bus no. 392, 294, 399, 380, 396 or L94, to Oxford St, near Palmer St.