Opening Event: Friday January 17, 2025, 5-7pm
A potter, a painter, and a philosopher have created handpainted bowls and a philosophical text for the exhibition entitled "Ceramic Poem and the Mixing Bowl."
This exhibition shows handpainted bowls related to 'real' and 'imagined' landscapes and attempts to reveal a sense of wonder of our natural world captured in paint, on clay, and in the form of a bowl. Here master potter Con Lynch shapes the clay at the wheel to its right proportion and depth, and contemporary painter Sinéad Aldridge applies a controlled calligraphic mark onto the clay, highlighting line, colour, and brush mark, creating an intimate universe in its shell. Responding to this, the philosopher, Tony Partridge, has written a philosophical text inspired by a close reading of the works of Proclus, here seen as a mirror to the bowls and to the universe created by Sinéad and Con. A booklet is presented for active reading by the viewer at the exhibition.
The bowls themselves are arranged on Con's workbench, taken from his workshop to the exhibition space, along with a shelf upon which display the original source materials used for creating the bowls. Sinéad's watercolours, that are associated with the bowls, are also exhibited.
Image detail:
in search of the Serpent's Rock
hand-painted ceramic, diameter 31cm X height 9cm
2022
