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Details
- Date
- 2019
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- porcelain, matt glaze, iron oxide, and saturated iron glaze
- Dimensions
- 26.0 x 56.0 x 25.0 cm overall
- Credit
- Vicki Grima Ceramics Fund 2020
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 20.2020.a-e
- Copyright
- © Kirsten Coelho
- Artist information
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Kirsten Coelho
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About
Kirsten Coelho is regarded as one of the foremost contemporary ceramic artists working in Australia. She trained at the University of South Australia in Adelaide, the city in which she still lives and works. Based in London in the early 1990’s, she is part of a lineage of Australian artists that draw inspiration from the Anglo/Japanese studio tradition and makers such as English artist Lucie Rie. Her elegant and formal works also take cues from renowned ceramicist Gwynn Hanssen Piggott.
Coelho tends to work in series, producing clusters of forms to create a wider whole. She says: ‘My ceramics practice focuses on the exploration and reinterpretation of utilitarian ceramics, glass and metal wares. Many pieces are made in white porcelain, some with an added iron rim - suggesting an everyday metal object whilst being made in a material like porcelain that has such a wide ranging history and associations of desire and commodity. This can create a juxtaposition between the precious and the commonplace.’
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
An Idea Needing to be Made: Contemporary Ceramics, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 27 Jul 2019–20 Oct 2019
Matisse Alive, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 11 Oct 2021–03 Apr 2022
Open Studio (brick vase clay cup jug), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 01 Jul 2023–07 Jan 2024
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Glenn Barkley and Lesley Harding, An idea needing to be made: Contemporary ceramics, Bulleen, 2019, 184-85 (colour illus.), 186-87 (colour illus., detail), 196 (illus.).
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