14 - 30 AUGUST

PETA O'BRIEN

RESTRAINT

O’Brien’s ceramic practice centres on hand-built stoneware vessels, created through coiling, pinching, and slab techniques. Working in a variety of earthy hues, she embraces the physicality and unpredictability of the medium, allowing the process to guide form and finish. Each work bears the evidence of the maker’s hand and the transformative effects of the kiln, drawing on the long history of the vessel as both functional object and cultural artefact.

Opens: Thursday, 16 August from 6 - 8pm
On show: 16 - 30 August

The ancient world has been a constant for the artist. Recognition of an object’s raw, handmade quality—when the maker’s hand was still evident—was intrinsic to creation. The pressed dimple in each of her vessels is a nod to a heritage that predates the written word. It is also inherently human. Small in scale, these works possess a sense of humanness—there is a sensuousness to the form, curved and moulded.

Restraint references the artist's recent physical trials: a complicated surgery that required her to tether the scale of her work. Ironically, through this physical restraint, she has examined the world's minutiae in all its complexity, elevating her subjects to a grander pantheon of awareness.

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