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Pottery; but not as you know it

Five ceramics artists have come together in the style of a 1980 ceramics exhibition that was hailed at the time as challenging the traditional art and craft divide.

Five by Five: New Conversations with Clay, installed this week in the Hastings City Art Gallery, was curated by one of the artists who participated in that original exhibition 35 years ago: John Parker.

Back in 1980, Denis Cohn Gallery in Auckland hosted an exhibition of five artists who each showed five works.

The artists — Bronwyn Cornish, Peter Hawkesby, Denis O’Connor, John Parker and Warren Tippet — wanted to abandon convention and approach ceramics differently to that taken by craft potters, who made household items that could be used.

The works the five showed were non-functional and influenced by a range of philosophies and working processes. 

As the title suggests, Five by Five: New Conversations with Clay again features five works from five artists who experiment on the fringes of ceramic practice: this time Kate Fitzharris, Tessa Laird, Kate Newby, Louise Rive and Suji Park.    

Five by Five: New Conversations with Clay, now until August 26, Hastings City Art Gallery; Entry is free.

4 October 2017

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