Take it Out of the Garden Manningham Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia 13th Feb − 6th March 2020

Red, ruddy, rubicund, rosy, the earth at its most vivified, vital and vibrant: the ubiquitous and heartening ‘baked earth’ that is terracotta appears in all spheres of daily experience. It is a material of diverse character. Terracotta is everywhere. It is the most common house and building brick; it is used in architecture for its warmth and mutability; in sewerage pipes and plumbing and it is in almost everyone’s garden in its most humble yet most efficacious form.