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"Smashing" - exhibition of ceramic related work, December 2012 – February 2013

“Smashing” is an exhibition of ceramic related work at the Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Centre in Tel Aviv, Israel, December 2012 – February 2013. Two works were invited/commissioned; one video (already submitted as part of RAE2008) plus a new commission deriving from ongoing research into the perception of narrative representations – specifically through fragmentation or distortion (i.e.: water and/or fire as per output 1).

The work interrogates conflicting accounts of the Willow Pattern story and fuses these narratives into a recombinant whole that seeks to generate debate as to the validity and purpose of definitive interpretation. Research references include the fragmented narratives of Postmodern literature Calvino/Borges and the assemblages of synthetic cubism. During this exhibition the work was selected for another show at the Janco Dada Museum in Ein Hod, Israel, July – October 2013 celebrating the centenary of art of the readymade: http://jancodada.co.il/pages.asp?id=233&lan=100.

This research was enabled through an invited Artists Residency at Sydney College of the Arts, August, 2011 and was presented at two conferences: NIEA Experimental Arts Conference, University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia, 19 -20 August 2011 (in collaboration with Lesley Punton (Lecturer at Glasgow School of Art: http://blogs.unsw.edu.au/niea-experimentalartsconference/). Following this presentation I have been in lengthy and continuing correspondence with keynote speaker Donald Brook (Emeritus Professor of Visual Arts at Flinders University) following up on research presented at the conference, some of which I presented at the Symposium für Zeitgenössische Fotografie (“Symposium for Contemporary Photography”) 29.09.2012, Regensburg, Germany http://www.regensburg.de/kultur/jahresthemen/jahresthema-2012/zeitgenoessische-fotografie/75545.

The same work also led to an invitation to publish an article in Ceramic Review Magazine in which invited art and design practitioners and theorists are invited to contribute 1000 word essays and accompanying images addressing a topic of relevance to the International Ceramics community.

http://www.ceramicreview.com/article.asp?p_article=27921.