Wilding Whitlam Exhibition Catalogue (2)

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Image: Lea Durie | Wilding Whitlam. 2023 | Photo: Courtesy of the Artist
Wilding Whitlam ARTIST STATEMENT Whitlam is an exploration of a new place through the deep time materiality of clay. This work started with a curiosity of what I might find when a planned urban place is encountered through unplanned wanderings and messy bodily entanglements. I approach the new, clean and ordered suburb of Whitlam, on Ngunnawal and Ngambri country, through its human architecture and the nonhuman world of 350 million year old clay, dug from within the suburb. The repetitive and intensive process of working with wild clay forces me to slow down and take notice. An exchange between place, labour and material develops its own rhythm. A sensory engagement with the weight, colour, texture, smell and sound of the wild clay shows a vibrancy of matter. ARTIST BIOGRAPHY Lea is a Braidwood based artist working primarily in ceramics. Working with clay for over 20 year Lea uses this malleable material to create forms that investigate human impact on the landscape. Lea works with both wild and commercial clays and manipulates surfaces with slips, sgrafitto, glaze and printing. Lea is currently completing a Masters of Contemporary Art Practices at the ANU School of Art and Design. She has been the recipient of a highly commended award in the national Klytie Pate Ceramics Award 2023, the 3D award at the QPRC Art Prize, the Doug Alexander Award 2021 from the Canberra Potters’ Society the Craft ACT Emerging Contemporaries Award with Craft ACT. In 2023 Lea was also awarded the Belconnen Art Centre Exhibition Award, Craft + Design Canberra Award and the Materials Award in the ANU School of Art and Design Graduating Exhibition EASS awards. Her work has been included in a number of group shows in the ACT, Victoria and NSW. Lea is also a creative business owner, with her functional ceramics practice Mud Dept. producing carefully designed and crafted reduction fired tableware.
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