Media release, Artists Statements, CV's and images for the final thermal Shock Ceramic artist group exhibition: ‘Intersect’ at the Gallows Art Gallery, Mosman Park, Western Australia.
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Jorjina Chenhalls
Ph: 0419 415 945
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A FINAL SHOCK INTERSECT
Twelve years of ritual will come to an end as ‘Thermal Shock’ prepare for their final exhibition together.
Since their days at Edith Cowan University, the eclectic group of artists collectively known as ‘Thermal Shock’ has exhibited together since 1992. Over the years this assembly of talented and highly experienced sculpture artists has encapsulated the local community with their stunning exhibitions.
Their latest exhibition, which will open on Friday 19 September, is a celebration of the past twelve years for this close knit group who specialize in new ceramics, textiles, paper and bronze sculptures. It features unique work by professional artists Christine Dyer, Graham Hay, Dee Jaeger, Bill Jeffrey, Irene Poulton and Stewart Scambler. These reputable artists form a dynamic group and have established high profiles for their contributions within the local artistic community.
Christine Dyer, also a nurse, uses blue and white ceramic vessels to symbolize old china. To these she adds lace work and glass beads to represent the forgotten ‘arts’ of yesteryear.
Graham Hay explores his social location, reporting back with intricate ceramic and paper sculptures. He is an award winning artist who is also a well known teacher at Robertson Park Artists Studio.
Dee Jaeger, also an award winner, continues her focus on the female figure through ceramic sculpture. She uses large bases to feature individual, smaller forms, suggesting a “contextual landscape” representing an “emotional and physical relationship.”
Bill Jeffrey creates bronze sculpture to reconstruct and redefine the ancient myth and image of the unicorn. He is an award winning artist who believes the “thoughts, feelings and interpretation presented in these works could be seen differently by others” and “this is as it should be”.
Irene Poulton explores the symbolism and emotion associated with the church, temple, shrine, icon and reliquary, with bright, raku fired ceramic forms. She has recently been invited to display her work in the Biennale Internazionale Dell’Arte Contemporanea in Florence, Italy.
Stewart Scambler creates beautifully wheel-thrown and wood fired vessel forms. He describes them as “simple objects that through their involvement in the daily ritual of life can carry intellectual and spiritual significance”.
The forthcoming exhibition, entitled ‘Intersect’ is the last of a success of exhibitions for the artists. Their exhibitions together include Thermal Shock at the Bridge gallery in 1992, Thermal Shock II at the 1994 Art and Craft Expo in Fremantle, Aftershock at the Moores Building in 1995, Committed at the Fremantle Arts Centre in 1997, Tempus Fugit at Gomboc Galleries in 1999 and Beyond Ritual at the Church Gallery in 2001.
It is promised to be a charming, social occasion, full of emotion, for a group of artists who have taken the local art scene by storm. It is a community based project not to be missed.
The exhibition will be opened by Belinda Carrigan, former Manager for the Holmes Court Collection, on Friday 19 September at 6.30 pm.
‘Intersect’
19 September – 5 October 2003
Wednesday – Saturday 10.00am-4.30pm
Sunday 2.00pm-5.00pm
The Gallows Gallery,
53 Glyde Street. Mosman Park, West Australia
Jorjina Chenhalls
Ph: 0419 415 945
MEDIA RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
A FINAL SHOCK INTERSECT
Twelve years of ritual will come to an end as ‘Thermal Shock’ prepare for their final exhibition together.
Since their days at Edith Cowan University, the eclectic group of artists collectively known as ‘Thermal Shock’ has exhibited together since 1992. Over the years this assembly of talented and highly experienced sculpture artists has encapsulated the local community with their stunning exhibitions.
Their latest exhibition, which will open on Friday 19 September, is a celebration of the past twelve years for this close knit group who specialize in new ceramics, textiles, paper and bronze sculptures. It features unique work by professional artists Christine Dyer, Graham Hay, Dee Jaeger, Bill Jeffrey, Irene Poulton and Stewart Scambler. These reputable artists form a dynamic group and have established high profiles for their contributions within the local artistic community.
Christine Dyer, also a nurse, uses blue and white ceramic vessels to symbolize old china. To these she adds lace work and glass beads to represent the forgotten ‘arts’ of yesteryear.
Graham Hay explores his social location, reporting back with intricate ceramic and paper sculptures. He is an award winning artist who is also a well known teacher at Robertson Park Artists Studio.
Dee Jaeger, also an award winner, continues her focus on the female figure through ceramic sculpture. She uses large bases to feature individual, smaller forms, suggesting a “contextual landscape” representing an “emotional and physical relationship.”
Bill Jeffrey creates bronze sculpture to reconstruct and redefine the ancient myth and image of the unicorn. He is an award winning artist who believes the “thoughts, feelings and interpretation presented in these works could be seen differently by others” and “this is as it should be”.
Irene Poulton explores the symbolism and emotion associated with the church, temple, shrine, icon and reliquary, with bright, raku fired ceramic forms. She has recently been invited to display her work in the Biennale Internazionale Dell’Arte Contemporanea in Florence, Italy.
Stewart Scambler creates beautifully wheel-thrown and wood fired vessel forms. He describes them as “simple objects that through their involvement in the daily ritual of life can carry intellectual and spiritual significance”.
The forthcoming exhibition, entitled ‘Intersect’ is the last of a success of exhibitions for the artists. Their exhibitions together include Thermal Shock at the Bridge gallery in 1992, Thermal Shock II at the 1994 Art and Craft Expo in Fremantle, Aftershock at the Moores Building in 1995, Committed at the Fremantle Arts Centre in 1997, Tempus Fugit at Gomboc Galleries in 1999 and Beyond Ritual at the Church Gallery in 2001.
It is promised to be a charming, social occasion, full of emotion, for a group of artists who have taken the local art scene by storm. It is a community based project not to be missed.
The exhibition will be opened by Belinda Carrigan, former Manager for the Holmes Court Collection, on Friday 19 September at 6.30 pm.
‘Intersect’
19 September – 5 October 2003
Wednesday – Saturday 10.00am-4.30pm
Sunday 2.00pm-5.00pm
The Gallows Gallery,
53 Glyde Street. Mosman Park, West Australia
Exhibition Invitation, front and back (below)
MEDIA IMAGES and QUOTES
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Christine Dyer
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"In this body of work I have used traditional elements of design, colour, and materials to draw notice to the often overlooked or unseen interior.
To this effect I have used blue and white to symbolize old china, and crotchet, lace work and glass beads to represent the forgotten ‘arts’ of yesteryear. These ‘arts’, which often arose out of necessity or ’making do’, are the inspiration for this series." Click here for images and details |
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Graham Hay
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“Am I simply the sum of others?
What role and influence do I have within this? Through combinations of paper and clay I try to show how I see the structure of society, and myself.” With a background in the arts, education, business and politics, Graham Hay expresses a unique viewpoint through two relatively new media; paperclay and compressed paper. In both media he has begun to develop a national and international reputation as a passionate advocate and innovator. Click here for images and details |
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Dee Jaeger
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"The female figure remains the central theme and focus of my ceramic sculptures.
In this body of work however, the figure has diminished or shrunk in scale and detail while the base, or rather the "environment" in which the figure is located, has grown. I needed to place the figure in a contextual landscape that represented the emotional and physical relationship I was seeking to express. The base is therefore not merely a devise for display or structural prop but an integral part of the work." Click here for images and details |
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Bill Jeffrey |
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"This work is in two parts. One part is utilizing the ancient myth and image of the unicorn, it is not symbolising the deconstruction of myth, rather it is reconstructing the mythological form and redefining it in a contemporary manner, "intersecting mythology with reality".
The second body of work consists of a group of images perhaps a surrogate for the future. Images about images; images in competition with images, in one sense of struggle, in another sense they are the truth. Thought offers a vision and a reality of another existence that this work attempts to communicate and at the same time it seeks the audience's acceptance of its truthfulness. Some say there is no order other than the order of man, however man's thoughts are constantly changing his dreams. The work is venturing out beyond the artists thoughts and there is no denying what others can say of it, its meaning, its very existence. The thoughts, feelings and interpretation presented in these works could be seen differently by others, and invested with alternative values and meanings, this is as it should be. All actions have consequences. The truth changes with time. Bill Jeffrey July 2003 " Click here for images and details |
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Irene Poulton |
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Intersected by time and space
Hallowed memories surround this place (Unknown) Church, Temple, shrine, icon, reliquary. All are places and symbols of sacred places of worship devotion, contemplation and meditation. You visit a sacred site you have never been before Yet you feel at home, you feel the ambience surrounding you. These sites of stone and mortar are most often old and in ruins. Yet they still hold you fascinated with their air of mystery in their visual imagery. Remnants of a passing? Fragments of the past? or persistence of memory? These are monuments of an ancient antiquity That can still hold us in their grasp. That when man is silent stones will speak (Goethe) Click here for images and details |
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Stewart Scambler |
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"I make simple objects that through their involvement in the daily ritual of life can carry intellectual and spiritual significance." Click here for images and details |
