Singular Views
The Ceramic Still Life
Popularised in Holland during the 17th century, Still Life paintings concentrating on everyday objects rather than life forms or scapes, have become widely accepted as a leading vehicle of style and expression only during this century.
Four internationally recognised ceramic artists come together at the Dowse Art Museum to exhibit their own renditions of Still Life in a different way - through the medium of clay. SINGULAR VIEWS provides a rare opportunity to view such diverse 3-dimensional works, and to examine their varying approaches, concepts, styles and processes side by side. The artists are Australian Gywn Hanssen Pigott, Swiss Dorothee Schellhorn, American James Makins and New Zealander Ann Verdcourt.
Each of these artists has been chosen for their highly individual contemporary slant on the theme of Still Life. Curator Moyra Elliott - herself an accomplished potter - is excited about this Dowse-initiated show. "SINGULAR VIEWS is a chance to view the work of a major New Zealand ceramist in the context of her international peers."
Exhibition curator Moyra Elliott displays a sense of form and stunning pictorialism in this catalogue which combines at least two of our design sensibilities.
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Price $19.95
