EXHIBITIONs' OPENING at Ladder Art Space in Melbourne

Julie Puchalski – Incidental

In this body of work, I have focused entirely on the ceramic objects we use in our everyday lives. These incidental pieces have allowed me to explore versatile design elements such as shape, texture, and colour while presenting a medley of random pottery pieces.

I have sought out what is at hand, from the bowls and cups I use daily to collected items that hold significance beyond their intended purpose.

I have taken a mix of ceramic items and paired them using concepts such as purpose, style, textures, culture, and sentimentality, as well as, in some cases, complete randomness. By keeping the background sparse and simple, I aimed to bring the ordinary and incidental forward.

Using round formatting, I have presented accumulated groups and collections of pottery, incidental arrangements that share some similarities and connections. This series provides a porthole view of the sets and multifaceted groupings we create in our commonplace use of ceramic wares.

The human relationship with ritual and utilitarian ceramic objects is a long one. Archaeologists have been finding pottery that tells stories about humans and how they lived throughout the ages and in many ancient civilizations.

What will our collections say about us?

Noah Xaver Pfister – Of Small and Large Things

I choose acrylic paint as my artistic medium due to its ability to be shaped into forms that can sieze upon the vision with little mess or compromise on vibrancy. My subject is always power because power is the only subject there is. I aim to create something that I can’t look away from, that I get lost in. In some sense I am constructing a labyrinth for myself. It helps to justify my life. I compel you to walk its paths and search its centre, taking as reward a layered texture of brilliant colours that lead from one abstract motif to the next. My work expresses the eternal search for a meaning that is intense, elusive, and esoteric.