Take it Out of the Garden Manningham Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia 13th Feb − 6th March 2020
by Bernard KerrIt 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…
Ron Nagle Getting to No at Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
All in all, the exhibition consists of recognizably Nagle-type works, yet he dazzlingly varies the material and the format, adding a stage-like base that is not neutral but rather thrusts the other fe…
Eva Kwong: Love Between the Atoms / Lifelines
Make no mistake, Kwong’s work, while typically cryptic, is and never has been, vague, but by employing various modes of complication, contradiction and association she successfully derails simplistic…
Joon Hee Kim: who am I?
by Denis LongchampsJoon Hee Kim, a Canadian ceramic artist born in Seoul, Korea, has a curious mind. Her career started as a graphic designer then an art director in Seoul, yet she found the two-dimensional format too l…
East-West Cultural Fusion
It was the first time China has held an international exhibition of contemporary ceramic art of such high profile. In the context of the blending and interaction of civilization, as globalization deep…
Anagama Kiln Build – Roto-O-Rangi
In March 2019, Janet Smith commenced the monumental task of building a mighty Anagama kiln on her rural property at Roto-O-Rangi, in the picturesque backblocks of Cambridge, Waikato, New Zealand. A la…