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ctor Chris Malcolm said the exhibition interrogates the unique and highly successful relationship between the artists, who are both Â鶹ֱ²¥ graduates, as well as showcasing groundbreaking new forms.<\/p>\nThe John Curtin Gallery brings together the ceramic artworks of Pippin Drysdale and Warrick Palmateer for the first time in an exclusive joint exhibition that explores their unique collaboration and showcases exciting new work from each artist.<\/p>\n
These significant new bodies of work, created especially for this exhibition, which runs until December 2, contrast each artist\u2019s own distinctive passion for different aspects of Australia\u2019s natural environment and their decades long obsession with perfection.<\/p>\n
John Curtin Gallery Director Chris Malcolm said the exhibition interrogates the unique and highly successful relationship between the artists, who are both Â鶹ֱ²¥ graduates, as well as showcasing groundbreaking new forms.<\/p>\n
\u201cConfluence <\/em>honours and explores the compelling collaborative processes through which these two artists are able to conjure some of the most breathtaking ceramic forms being made in Australia today.\u00a0 The ceramic works in Confluence<\/em> boldly contrast each artist\u2019s distinctive aesthetic language and celebrates their passion for different aspects of Australia\u2019s natural environment that so deeply informs their work,\u201d Mr Malcolm said.<\/p>\n Pippin Drysdale is widely considered one of Australia\u2019s foremost ceramic artists and was formally recognised as one of Western Australia\u2019s State Living Treasures in 2015.\u00a0 Over a career spanning four decades, Drysdale has developed a significant international reputation for her\u00a0distinctive vessels, drawing inspiration in recent decades from the ancient landscapes of Australia\u2019s interior desert country.<\/p>\n She regularly exhibits internationally and her work is held in major private and public collections across Australia and throughout the world.\u00a0 Her latest ceramic forms include suites of Devils Marbles, <\/em>inspired by the striking rock formations in the Karlu Karlu \/ Devils Marbles Conservation Reserve, a significant Aboriginal sacred site in Australia\u2019s central Northern Territory. The porcelain forms that constitute Drysdale\u2019s installations engage with a fresh, comprehensive and daring colour palette that evokes surreal and \u2018magical\u2019 desert light effects.\u00a0 This series also highlights Drysdale\u2019s shift from displays of single pots to installations of groups of vessels.<\/p>\n Warrick Palmateer has b Palmateer\u2019s most recent body of work, produced exclusively for Confluence<\/em>, is an assembly of vessels, gargantuan in scale and boldly visceral in their physical presence and material relationship to the artist\u2019s coastal home north of Perth.\u00a0 Working in partnership with a local industrial brick maker, Palmateer\u2019s pots are formed on such an unprecedented scale, they required some of Australia\u2019s largest brick kilns to fully realise the artist\u2019s ambitions. Celebrating the liminal coastal spaces so inspiring to him, Palmateer\u2019s work challenges one\u2019s conceptions of the vessel through their sheer scale and ambitious technique.<\/p>\n This exhibition is made possible through the support of the John Curtin Gallery\u2019s new Principal Presenting Partner Navitas Ltd.<\/p>\n The John Curtin Gallery, Â鶹ֱ²¥, Bentley, is open Monday to Friday, from 11am\u00a0to 5pm, and Sunday, from 12pm to 4pm. ENTRY IS FREE.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Confuence20181008_004.jpg\")
een a practicing potter for over thirty years. He has been collaborating with Pippin Drysdale for the past twenty-five years during which time he’s become increasingly responsible for the manual production of Drysdale\u2019s open and closed forms, all thrown on the wheel in her Fremantle studio. While they have consistently collaborated through this special partnership, Palmateer has also steadily cultivated his own distinctive arts practice.<\/p>\n