
Svend Bayer: Last Pot Standing
by Sebastian BlackieWhen I purchased a small bowl a few weeks ago much was already sold; but the private view would have been an event worth marking for this is Bayer’s last exhibition. Bayer has been potting professiona…

Take it Out of the Garden Manningham Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia 13th Feb − 6th March 2020
It is the very conviviality of terracotta, its very primitiveness, plasticity and playfulness as a medium and its ubiquity as a ceramic medium in almost all cultures that signifies a meaning as the re…

Drifting Dangerously: ‘Pharmacological Art’ and Simon Reece’s Flotsam and Jetsam
By drawing us into an encounter with the poison at the heart of human waste, Reece encourages us to expunge alienation and transform our relationship to it. From there we can then begin to work up a r…