CLAY STORIES
exhibition 3-21 June 2025
Ceramic artists, 'The Clay Sisters’ from Gympie Qld, Barb MacDougal, Linda McIntosh Hoy, Shelley Kampf, Lynelle Griffiths, Irene Floyd and Cherryl Chambers Williams.
OPENING PARTY
Saturday 7th of June 6pm
Free event
Together they have each created a range of functional and sculptural pieces that explore the connection between nature and craft. Inspired by the local landscape and the inherent beauty of clay, the group draws on their various backgrounds to develop a unique style of ceramic pieces. Their work has been featured in exhibitions and has been recognized with exhibition awards.
The group, working together in Gympie, take their art practice with clay to new levels, pushing the boundaries. The works, which include both functional vessels and sculptures, are each infused with levity, humour, and character. Their ceramics alternate between hand-built sculptural forms, figurative sculptures and wheel thrown forms and domestic ware.
‘Clay Sisters’ utilises the imitative properties of porcelain, and cone 6 clays; crafting objects that contest their materiality and purpose. These ceramics, blending traditional methods with innovative approaches, pay homage to celebrated functional styles, and sculptures, while creating something uniquely new and contemporary. The most recent hand-built forms have been inspired by nature and local content.
As a group interested in the ways in which we interact with nature, sometimes symbiotically and other times in contradictory ways. In this connection to nature, we find a synergy between the natural ecosystem and the creative ecosystem, where the multitudes of nature and the thousands of years of clay overlap. This is a place where we are free to explore, and this exploration inevitably feeds back into both our ceramics and life.
This exhibition explores, local content and stories, the connection between nature -flora/ fauna and shape. Each artist has their own interpretation of the content. It’s a colourful, fun way of looking at the Gympie environment. There is a theme of 9ct Gold, winding its way through the pieces. Cherryl Chambers Williams pieces “Along the Mary” evokes a sense of quiet contemplation, inviting the viewer to engage with its subtle details of insects, leaves and found objects."
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