Pittwater Life April 2024 Issue
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NO-TICKET FINES MESS
THE FOOTY ISSUE: WARRINGAH RATS & AVALON BULLDOGS
NARRABEEN ATHLETICS TRACK WOES / BARRENJOEY RD DANGER
SEEN... HEARD... ABSURD... / ANZAC DAY / THE WAY WE WERE
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Art <strong>Life</strong><br />
‘Tabled’, ‘Held’, ‘Placed’ –<br />
stunning ceramics display<br />
Manly Art Gallery &<br />
Museum (MAG&M) will<br />
exhibit three unique<br />
exhibitions side by side in<br />
<strong>April</strong>, showcasing the very<br />
best in contemporary ceramics.<br />
‘TABLED’, ‘HELD’ and<br />
‘PLACED’ – a partnership<br />
between MAG&M and The<br />
Australian Ceramics Association<br />
– will run concurrently<br />
from 19 <strong>April</strong> to 9 June.<br />
The exhibitions feature tableware<br />
developed in collaboration<br />
with some of Australia’s<br />
top chefs, restauranteurs and<br />
artisans; clay pieces exploring<br />
connections to place; and<br />
utilitarian sculptural objects<br />
shown on one continuous<br />
shelf.<br />
TABLED presents tableware<br />
designed and made by 12<br />
potters, developed in collaboration<br />
the Australian Ceramics<br />
Association (TACA).<br />
TABLED: Paul Davis Ceramic plate,<br />
black clay, with minnie sweets.<br />
PHOTO: Minako Asai<br />
The artists worked with<br />
chefs, cooks and food producers,<br />
including leading<br />
Australian chefs from hatted<br />
restaurants Firedoor and Gildas,<br />
regional restaurants and<br />
distilleries, providores and<br />
food artists. Together they<br />
have produced 12 dramatic<br />
and elaborate table installations<br />
which reveal fascinating<br />
connections between ceramics<br />
and food.<br />
HELD features 90 small contemporary<br />
artworks created<br />
by members of TACA. The<br />
sculptural objects are utilitarian<br />
and functional, appearing<br />
as though they could be physically<br />
‘held’. More experimental<br />
works in the series capture<br />
the sense that in objects,<br />
memories are also held.<br />
PLACED explores sense of<br />
place, belonging and connection,<br />
with works from the<br />
MAG&M ceramic collection<br />
and loaned pieces from artists<br />
Rona Panangka Rubuntja,<br />
Mechelle Bounpraseuth and<br />
Ara Dolatian.<br />
Rona Panangka Rubuntja<br />
joined the Hermannsburg<br />
Potters in 1998 and has<br />
established herself as one of<br />
the most prominent senior<br />
artists of the group, participating<br />
in more than 40 group<br />
exhibitions in Australia and<br />
internationally. Inspired by<br />
contemporary life in Ntaria,<br />
PLACED: Rona Panangka Rubuntja,<br />
Home to Hermannsburg, 2023.<br />
her figurative works are<br />
distinctive, humorous and<br />
imaginative.<br />
The child of Laotian parents,<br />
Bounpraseuth uses art<br />
to process loss of cultural<br />
heritage, inherited trauma and<br />
childhood memories.<br />
Dolatian explores the<br />
relationship between cultural<br />
landscapes and the natural<br />
ecosystem with models of<br />
utopian cities and sculptural<br />
experiments.<br />
The exhibition (open Tuesdays<br />
– Sundays, 10am-5pm)<br />
will be officially opened on 3<br />
May by Quay’s Executive Chef<br />
Peter Gilmore.<br />
– NW<br />
*More info magmam.com.au<br />
Art <strong>Life</strong><br />
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APRIL <strong>2024</strong><br />
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