Ceramicist Kelly Austin explores how placement, proximity, harmony, and discord generate numerous propositions, illusions, and opposing concepts: the recognisable and abstract, solid and translucent, heavy and light.
“This work is quiet, focused, attentive and nuanced. It creates a space for softness, whilst also exploring the materials of this earth and their transformation: the wetness and heaviness of clay and the solidity of rock faces. It is about being in, and of, landscape: pink sand, tanned earth, a wall of brick red and a whisp of white across the sky,” says the artist.
Kelly Austin, Stilled Composition 118, stoneware, porcelain, collected earthen materials, glaze, metal wire, timber, and acrylic paint, 35 × 90 × 31cm. Courtesy the artist and Beaver Galleries, Australian Capital Territory
Beaver Galleries
9 to 25 February 2023
Australian Capital Territory
