Australian Ceramics Triennale 09

Official Opening:
Thursday, 2 July 6 to 8pm

Pottery is the new video
This show is an installation of figurative and abstract sculptural ceramics combined with video and other materials. The artist is interested in using the low status of ceramics as a subversive strategy within an experimental and cross-disciplinary art context. These fragile coil-built sculptures transgress on several levels; they are ceramics, a marginalised discipline, made of a low material, clay; they are highly crafted, demonstrating the manual skill of the artist; they are objects, not ephemera; they are traditionally figurative not abstract; their intensely decorated surfaces and intriguing shapes are visually attractive; they are sexual, extreme and humourous.

Artist:

Trevor Fry

Directions from National Art School:

MOP Projects, 2/39 Abercrombie St Chippendale
From Oxford St opposite Palmer St, take Bus no. 378 to Railway Square
From Railway Square stand D take bus 437, 440 or 413 to Broadway nr Abercrombie St. Walk up the left hand side of Broadway to Abercrombie, turn left, walk about 250m to no 39 on the corner of O’Connor St.

 Trevor Fry, Pottery Is The New Video, 2009, ceramic performance with unfired terracotta sculpture, Photo credit: Sarah Goffman