JamFactory ICONS
JamFactory’s Icon series is an annual solo exhibition celebrating the achievements of South Australia’s most influential artists working in crafts-based media.
Stephen Bowers: Beyond Bravura
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Stephen Bowers makes pottery that fires the imagination. He combines rich, modern life experiences with skills and traditions that stretch back thousands of years to create complex works full of wonder. From familiar, everyday items, to the transformative alchemy of deluxe and super deluxe bravura museum pieces, his art is acclaimed and collected across Australia and overseas.
Nick Mount: The Fabric of Work
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Nick Mount is one of Australia’s most accomplished and celebrated artists. This exhibition features a series of sculptural assemblages that range in scale and character and describe an aesthetic that is both provocative and playful, intimate, and spectacular.
Giles Bettison: Pattern and Perception
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Giles Bettison is renowned internationally as a master of contemporary murrine glass. Until he started experimenting with murrine as a student at Australian National University in the mid 1990s, this ancient mosaic glass technique was primarily associated with traditional Venetian glass-blowers on the island of Murrano.
Gerry Wedd: Kistchen Man
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Gerry Wedd enjoys a national reputation for his hand built blue and white ceramics that brim with a dry wit oscillating from the humorous to darkly disturbing.
Catherine Truman: no surface holds
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An intriguing and diverse solo show of objects, installation, images and film that investigates Truman’s 20 years of research and collaborative practice at the nexus of art and science. This exhibition is the first time that Truman’s collaborative practice with artists and scientists is presented as a whole.
Clare Belfrage: A Measure of Time
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Clare Belfrage has maintained a vibrant studio glass practice and is known for her distinctive artworks in which complex patterns of fine glass lines trace her forms. Inspired by repetitious patterns found in nature and the woven lines of textiles, Belfrage is particularly drawn to the layered rhythms that mark growth, change and the passing of time.
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Angela Valamanesh: About Being Here
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Inspired by the symbiosis between science and poetry Angela Valamanesh’s art works elicits intrigue and a strong sense of personal investigation, as she manipulates seemingly familiar botanical and parasitic forms in beguiling and unusual ways. Primarily known for her biomorphic ceramic sculpture, this exhibition also celebrates the artist’s evocative drawings, watercolours, and mixed media works from her developing style of the late 1990s until present.
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Tom Moore: Abundant Wonder
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Tom’s relationship with hot glass originated within the Australian National University glass program in the early 1990’s. The timing was particularly beneficial as it presented the opportunity to assimilate Venetian glass-blowing techniques, which Tom chose to apply to idiosyncratic imagery. Through his hybridized creatures and installations, Moore critiques the current human condition and the impact humans have wrought on our environment.
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Kunmanara Carroll: Ngaylu Nyanganyi Ngura Winki (I Can See All Those Places)
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Kunmanara Carroll is a Luritja/Pintupi/Pitjantjatjara artist based in Pukatja and working from Ernabella Arts. Concerned with passing on cultural knowledge, Kunmanara Carroll’s paternal homeland is an unwavering source of inspiration and the recurring subject within his oeuvre of painting and ceramic sculpture. Kunmanara Carroll will be the first Aboriginal artist to be featured in the JamFactory Icon series. The show is being developed in partnership with Ernabella Arts and will showcase a significant new body of ceramic works supported by related paintings and woven tapestry produced by the Australian Tapestry Workshop.
Jessica Loughlin: Of Light
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Jessica Loughlin is one of Australia’s most internationally acclaimed glass artists and is renowned for her highly innovative technical approach to kilnformed glass. She creates ethereal kilnformed glass artworks that explore her fascination with the beauty of emptiness and her extensive research into light and space. She takes her artistic cues from the vast, flat landscapes and salt lakes of South Australia and is particularly drawn to the inherent quietness and stillness of the land.
A studio glass artist for over twenty-five years, Loughlin has dedicated her practice to the pursuit of capturing the transient qualities of light and the quiet sense of contemplation it provokes in the viewer.