artisan collects is an initiative that supports emerging artists, encourages art collection and advocate the value of craft and design. Every two months artisan curates a range of high-end work by a select artists to be exhibited in our retail space.

artisan collects will launch it's second showcase of prestigious work by the Queensland based ceramicist, Peta Berghofer. Based on Giabal and Jarowair lands (Toowoomba, Queensland), Berghofer has been working with ceramics since 2013.

Berghofer’s practice is interested in clay's long-standing ability to record history and reveal human behaviour. Her ambiguous forms sit between sculpture and function, often appropriating common domestic objects to explore elements of material culture. Whether functional or functionless, Berghofer’s self-referential ceramics are most often presented as the same body of work, exhibited as abstracted still-life environments. Here she plays with distinctions between gallery and domestic spaces, engaging with historic and contemporary tensions between art, craft, and design.

We will be inviting our community of makers, collectors, and art enthusiasts to join us for the Peta Berghofer x artisan Collects launch event. The artisan collects launch offers an opportunity to meet the artist, listen to artist talks and preview or purchase the work of some of Australia’s most exciting emerging craft and design makers.

Launch Friday 29th JULY |6:00 – 8:00pm
Cash Bar | artisan has secure parking right next door! The first 3 hours from 5pm are free: Parking Info Here

This is a COVIDsafe event, register your place. Entry is FREE.