Previous Exhibitions - 2007

26 January – 18 March 2007

Bruce Nuske, Kirsten Coelho, Bronwyn Kemp, Philip Hart, Bernard Leach and Gwyn Leitch Harris

Exploring the cross roads of form and function through exquisitely crafted works. This exhibition features a selection of rare Leach Standard Ware by renowned British potter Bernard Leach and a suite of related paintings from South Australian artist, the late Gwyn Leitch Harris.

26 January - 18 March 2007

Brenden Scott-French

From rudimentary slab impressions French constructs forms and builds outlines relating to ideas about illusion, crisis, and mortality. Dissecting and rearranging his materials, using sheets of glass to create layers of painted symbolic imagery, French’s work is informed by concerns of necessity, luxury, storage and disposability.

24 March - 27 May 2007

Toby Thomas

Solid timber you can bend into a whiplash? – an Italian invention of course! Thomas catches up with this miracle material, Bendywood, in a presentation of innovative new works. The flexibility of Bendywood provides him with a free hand as he explores the structural beauty of the material and the fluid, curvaceous forms it gives to functional and non functional furniture and sculpture.

24 March - 27 May 2007

Katrina Freene and Zara Collins

Spies in the house of love. The gentle arts of acquisition and collection lie at the core of this imaginative and seductive selection of jewellery and objects. A mixture of astute, if slightly steamy sensibilities, deliver inspired creations of delightfully wearable boutique jewellery.

9 June - 22 July 2007

Khai Liew

A master of exquisitely crafted, intelligently designed contemporary furniture, Liew is passionate in his love of skilled hand crafting and feel for materials. Drawing on his cultural heritage, inspired by the cool restraint of classic Danish design and the rugged practicality of utility items made by early Australian settlers, Liew occupies a particular place in contemporary Australian furniture design.

9 June - 22 July 2007

Vicki Mason

Mason constructs a garden-like wonderland from plastic and metal jewellery. Her floral brooches reference the forms of indigenous flora coupled with traditional Mason’s ironstone pottery motifs. Hybrid forms and stylised representation combine to transform the mundane prose of everyday things into a more surreal and suggestive form of poetic object, where PVC may substitute for precious gems.

28 July - 9 September 2007

Leo Neuhofer

Enter the zone of the large hand built sculptural floor piece. Neuhofer’s investigations consist of self-conscious structural grids, references to nets and fish trap forms in homage to Aboriginal crafts of necessity. His skeletal ceramic grids and elaborated solid forms are accompanied by charcoal drawings, connecting the minatory power of his hunter/gather forms to the purely formal intentions of his edifice-like pieces.

28 July - 9 September 2007

Maria Parmenter

Meditative ceramics that stand apart for the simple honesty of their functionality and deliberateness. In her first solo exhibition, Parmenter’s pottery becomes a palimpsest – carrying traces of memories; the accruals and erasures of daily life. Images submerge or drift on her surfaces, jostling like memories in the stream of consciousness – accidental and fragmentary souvenirs of the everyday, relics of the past, the present or a possible future.

15 September - 21 October 2007

Klaus Moje: Glass

Living Treasures is an annual exhibition series that celebrates Australia's most respected icons of craft. The second features new work by master glass artist Klaus Moje.

With a career spanning 50 years and distinguished by a mastery of form and technique, Moje is one of Australia's most celebrated glass artists. An influential educator and significant innovator, his developments in the kiln-formed mosaic glass technique have revolutionised the art of glass. His vessels and wall panels are dramatically coloured forms of intense geometric and abstract patterns, exemplifying his exacting attention to detail.

15 September - 21 October 2007

Christian Hall

Combining metal, ceramics and glass in a multidisciplinary approach Hall creates jewellery, lighting and domestic scaled objects. Taking traditional practice as a starting point, Hall recruits new technology into his designs, maintaining a link with the material culture of yesteryear, while positioning his objects within the realm of higher-tech utility

27 October - 9 December 2007

Woven Forms unfurls the diversity and richness of contemporary basket making in Australia. Featuring spinifex and pandanus works from some of Australia's most respected Indigenous artists alongside inventive plastics and metals from non-Indigenous artists, this exhibition contains more than 100 works. Woven Forms: Contemporary basket making in Australia is an Object Gallery touring exhibition.

27 October - 9 December 2007

Emma Varga

Aristotle thought colour was a blend of black and white. In the 13th Century Roger Bacon said a glass prism added colours to light. In 1672 Newton proved him wrong. We know all that. But what power is there in a colour? Are there memories, emotions or sounds a colour might evoke? Varga invites us to join her on a personal voyage into what the colour red might mean with this collection of thematically linked works.

15 December 2007 - 13 January 2008

Scene but not herd. Find out what the next wave of hip young designer makers is up to in this comprehensive survey that presents and celebrates the latest new work in ceramics, furniture, glass and metal from JamFactory’s innovative Associates.