Crafting modernism offers an intriguing insight into the lifelong creative journey of South Australian potter Milton Moon, who was fuelled by a vision that married Zen philosophy with a determination to express a distinctly Australian sense of place.
Created in the shadow of the Vietnam War and at the height of the Funk art movement, Adelaide-based artist Olive Bishop’s Wash and War will be in the spotlight at the Art Gallery of South Australia on ANZAC Day.
An unsent fan letter, the discovery of a 30-year-old magazine in a dusty archive of craft journals in Mount Isa, and a final creative meeting of minds lie behind the exhibition of celebrated ceramicist Petrus Spronk at The Main Gallery in Halifax Street.
Pure Form illuminates the seismic shift away from traditional ceramic-making that occurred in Japan after World War II with a breathtakingly beautiful, extensive, and scholarly exhibition of ceramics which favour form over function.