Window Gallery
Spiky urchin cup & teapot 2013
Maker: Katherine Wheeler
Materials: Porcelain, thread, PVA, paint
Mosquito 2013
Maker: Katherine Wheeler
Materials: Fine silver, porcelain, sterling silver, thread, PVA paint.
Rings 2013
Maker: Katherine Wheeler
Materials: Hand formed, hand painted porcelain
Sprout: standing teapot & Flightless 2013
Maker: Katherine Wheeler
Materials: Porcelain, copper, sterling silver, thread, PVA, paint
Hollow Adaption
31 July 2013 - 21 September 2013
Wheeler’s sculptural jewellery and hollow-ware* has been made with silver, porcelain, paper, and thread. Often, these materials have been camouflaged; a layer of white paint creates a kind of “skin” for the richly textured objects and references shell or bone. Fragile ceramic extrusions are combined with delicately glazed components – producing surfaces which alternate between matt and gloss. In stark contrast to the curious ‘bleached’ fossil-like works – the accompanying ink drawings are bright and ‘alive’, depicting strangely bird-like forms in different permutations. Katherine Wheeler is an Australian artist, based in Castlemaine, Victoria. She graduated with a bachelor of *the term hollow-ware usually refers to silver serving dishes |