Elizabeth Rose: Elements
Breamar Gallery Springwood NSW
10 Jun – 4 Jul
Elements draws the viewer into the worlds encapsulated in lustre glazed ceramic work. Local ceramicist Elizabeth Rose synthesises her intuitive and alchemic understanding of mineral compounds to create works that reflect the exquisite formations of rocks and crystals on structured, organic vessels.
The exhibition features familiar form, juxtaposed with the complexity of colour and texture which reminds us of the fragility and innovation of the natural world.
Symbiosis
Sculpture at Scenic World 2021
Symbiosis honours natural ecological processes and takes inspiration from the topography of the Blue Mountains. Elizabeth Rose utilises a gritty and grainy clay to create these unique shapes. Smoothing and pinching the clay she works the edges into delicate undulating layers reminiscent of eroded sandstone. For the artist these figures are deeply connected to each other in a complex network of association.
Elizabeth Rose is a Blue Mountains artist passionate about enriching artistic practice; she currently teaches across artistic disciplines including multimedia and electronics as well as undertaking study for her own artistic development.
Sculpture Otherwise
2 Apr – 2 May 2021
Sculpture Otherwise is an exhibition of small sculpture by artists participating in Sculpture at Scenic World in 2021. The indoor exhibition provides an opportunity for collectors and the public to engage with work by emerging, mid-career and established Australian and international artists including, small sculpture, installation and maquettes.
Earth is a series of ceramic wares that are inspired by the local landscape and its colours in the Blue Mountains NSW. A speckled brown clay body and varied blue glazes that captures the planet earth.
The seed pod form series of ceramic vessels use a fluting tool to add repetition of surface and mimic the form of seeds.
Speckled pink is a series of domestic ware inspired by nature in spring and the beautiful emergence of pink Flannel flowers after the bushfires.
A collection of vases with flowers overflowing. Ceramic vessels designed for flower arrangements. These photographs are available as a series of gift cards.
Raku is a specific firing technique, when pots are taken from the kiln while they are still glowing red hot, and they are then placed in a bin with a material that would be easily able to catch fire, such as sawdust or newspaper. The reason for this is to starve the environment of oxygen, which gives the glaze a wonderful variety of colors and colours the clay body black with carbon.
Crawl glaze is a series of ceramic vessels with a glaze where the intention is for the glaze to mimic dry and drought ridden surfaces or lichen.
Crawling is where the molten glaze withdraws into 'islands' leaving bare clay patches. The edges of the islands are thickened and smoothly rounded or rough to touch.
