Main Gallery
Formunculae: Numbers One to Eleven
Maker: Tony Bond
Materials: ceramic, wood, enamel paint, installation works
Courtesy of the artist
Chicken & pig figurines
Maker: Unknown
Materials: low fired, multi-coloured, glazed slip ware
Courtesy Private Collection, Auckland
Retroware & Tiki wares
Maker: Studio Ceramics
Materials: slipcast semi-vitreous porcelain
Courtesy of Studio Ceramics, Auckland
Guggenheim egg cup, Tange sauce boat & Utzon salad bowl
Maker: Anthologie Quartet
Materials: slipcast, glazed, high fired white clay, decorative domestic ware
Courtesy Indice, Auckland
Ceramic blades, crucibles, filters, insulation devices and wear tiles plates used within the steel, glass, electrical and wood fire industries
Maker: Certec
Materials: hand thrown, mid and high technological ceramic processing
Courtesy of Certec Ltd, Auckland
Traditional Chinese manufactured domestic teapots
Maker: Unknown
Materials: handcrafted unglazed earthenware
Courtesy Private Collection, Auckland
Endure Your Destiny
Maker: Clare McLean
Materials: slipcast multiple forms, individually altered installation works
Courtesy of the artist
Untitled (Black Bottle series)
Maker: Lauren Winstone
Materials: hand thrown, manipulated forms
Courtesy of the artist
Face Cups
Maker: unknown
Materials: hand thrown, altered stoneware and earthenware
Courtesy Simon Manchester Collection, Wellington
Swedish designer tableware
Maker: Hoganas
Materials: Industrially produced stoneware
Courtesy of Galtons of Parnell, Auckland
Domestic tableware
Maker: Rachel Carter
Materials: hand thrown, glazed porcelain
Courtesy of the artist
Temuka and various Australian Manufacturers
Maker: Unknown
Materials: industrially produced, cast, high fired glazed ceramics
Courtesy Christopher Braddock & John Parker Collections, Auckland
Brick, Sponge, Stone & Polystyrene Teapots
Maker: Peter Lange
Materials: slipcast components hand assembled, high fired and produced in a limited edition
Courtesy Private Collections, Auckland
German Designer Tableware
Maker: Villeroy and Boch
Materials: industrially produced porcelain
Courtesy Galtons of Parnell, Auckland
Specialist ceramic components used in smelting of aluminium, copper and stainless steel
Maker: Pyrotek
Courtesy of Pyrotek Products Ltd, Auckland
Domestic tableware
Maker: Chris Weaver
Materials: hand thrown, altered, high fired stoneware and porcelain
Courtesy Private Collections, Auckland
Tokis & Gorgettes
Maker: Simon Gamble
Materials: broken, cut and ground Crown Lynn tableware suspended from waxed braided cord
Courtesy of the artist
Italian manufactured mortuary ware
Maker: Aro Memorials
Materials: photo ceramics on white clay
Courtesy Aro Memorials, Auckland
Designer tableware
Maker: Rachel Carley
Materials: slip cast, earthenware ceramics, manufactured by Hall's Industries, Auckland
Courtesy of the artist
Traditional Afghan bowls
Maker: unknown
Materials: unique, handmade and decorated low fired earthenware
Courtesy Trilby Walker & Private Collections, Auckland
Domestic and decorative ware
Maker: Chester Nealie
Materials: hand thrown, altered stoneware, often subject to multiple Anagama firings
Courtesy Private Collections, Auckland
Ceramic hip replacement implants
Maker: Ceramtec
Materials: fourth Generation ceramics - BIOLOX delta
Courtesy Zimmer New Zealand Ltd
Mao Tse-Tung figurines and busts
Maker: John Parker
Materials: slipcast, mid-fired white clay
Courtesy John Parker Collection, Auckland
Decorative Orbs
Maker: Peter Collis
Materials: hand thrown, glazed, mid-fired white clay
Courtesy of Peter Collis, Auckland
Finnish designer tableware
Maker: Tonfisk
Materials: handmade porcelain, walnut, cork
Courtesy Galtons of Parnell, Auckland
Domestic and decorative ware
Maker: Ross Mitchell-Anyon
Materials: hand thrown, wood-fired stoneware
Courtesy Private Collections, Auckland
Installation view
Ampersand
Maker: Peter Lange
Materials: individually made using commercial bricks, grouting, industrial adhesive & steel reinforcing
Courtesy Private Collection, Auckland
Installation view
Children' toilet pans
Maker: Caroma
Materials: industrially produced sanitary ware
Courtesy Burrell Demolition, Auckland
Clay Economies
02 August 2008 - 30 August 2008
Curator:
Richard Fahey
By taking a long view of the social life of clay commodities, Clay Economies intends to open up different considerations of contemporary ceramics. Implicit in this undertaking is the assumption that the potentiality of future ceramic production becomes apparent when we recognise the complex but specific mechanisms that regulate taste, trade and desire.
The works in Clay Economies traverse the industrially mass produced and the handcrafted; the ornamental and the utilitarian; the authored and the anonymous; the high and low status; the visible and the barely acknowledged. By assembling such a diversity of works the intent is to expand our understanding of contemporary ceramic practice by considering the multiplicity of ceramic production and consumption that exists beyond the narrow confines of studio pottery.
Coinciding with the Clay Economies exhibition is the launch of the Clay Economies publication. A critical anthology of essays by Dr David Craig, Moyra Elliott, Richard Fahey & Dr Christopher Thompson, Clay Economies addresses ceramics as a significant form of local cultural production. Clay Economies is published by 6 Point Press with the assistance of Creative New Zealand, Objectspace & Unitec.
The 72 page Clay Economies publication is available as a free download or for $25 from Objectspace and Parsons Books. Contact us if you are interested in purchasing a copy.