The Gallery of Everything is pleased to announce its summer exhibition: BOWLS, POTS, VESSELS, URNS, CREATURES, TABLES, LUMPS: an investigation into ceramic practices from the 18th to 21st centuries.
Taking its inspiration from an imaginary Abyssinian poem, BOWLS, POTS, VESSELS, URNS, CREATURES, TABLES, LUMPS occupies the entire gallery space, assembling over a dozen artists and makers from across the dextrous divide.
The project contrasts anonymous works and archaeological fragments with glazed Mississippi mud forms by George Ohr, aquatic containers by the Martin Brothers, collapsed photographic equipment by Alan Constable, and Japanese forest deities by Shinichi Sawada - each arranged upon the elegant fabricated tabletops of potter, painter and poet, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy.
So elusive is this tactile display that it will expand and contract throughout its life-cycle, meaning that the show on a Wednesday morning may not be the same as it is on a Sunday afternoon. How irritating, yet how perfect, for a world in which the greatest feats of clay-making are reduced to tulips and tea-time.
During the exhibition, films will be presented regularly in the gallery screening room, most notably, early episodes of Morph by Peter Lord and David Sproxton, and classic tales of repressed sexuality by surrealist Jan Švankmajer.
For more information, please contact the gallery.
Artists Featured:
Clarice Cliff
Alan Constable
Edmund de Waal
Christian Dior
Seyni Awa Camara
Santina Maria Grimaldi
Dora Holzhandler
Billi Ray Hussey
Robert Jackson
Kazumi Kamae
Olga Kozlova
Horace Lindezey
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy
Natalia Misyura
Friedrich Nagler
George E Ohr
Ulisses Pereira Chaves
Antonia Poterio
Robert Rapson
Martin Rodas & Julia Izidrez
Shinichi Sawada
Maria Luciene da Silva Siquiera
Ann Stokes
Charles Voysey
Louis William Wain
Masami Yamagiwa
Hideaki Yoshikawa
Anonymous Makers