Lucreccia Quintanilla
A Ripple and an Echo
Linden New Art
Until 1 September, 2019
MelbourneAn Idea Needing
to be Made:
Contemporary Ceramics
Heide Museum of Modern Art
Until 20 October, 2019
Melbourne‘A Ripple and an Echo’ by artist Lucreccia
Quintanilla seeks to broadcast the hidden
sounds that are present in the world we
live in, those we do not hear, obscured by
the noise around us. Four conch shell-like
sculptures implanted with mobile phones act
as speakers to amplify Quintanilla’s sound
compositions; recordings of the natural and
human world, becoming further intensified
by their placement within the gallery space.
‘These works must be approached with a spirit
of exploration and openness,’ suggests curator
Juliette Hanson.We shall dance by the light of the moon, 2017, ceramic and mobile
phone, dimensions variable
Photograph: Leela Schauble
Courtesy the artist and Linden New Art, MelbourneKathy Butterly, Multi, 2018, clay, glaze, 13.5 x 12.5 x 13cm
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Purchased with funds provided by the Mollie Douglas Bequest
Courtesy the artist and Heide Museum of Modern Art, MelbourneCeramic artists from home and abroad explore
‘the vessel’, how it is used today and continues
to be reimagined in ‘An Idea Needing to Be
Made’ it includes Australians Kirsten Coehlo,
Pippin Drysdale, Ernabella Arts, Simone
Fraser, Gwyn Hanssen Pigott and Nicolette
Johnson. The show is inspired by Pigott who
saw the form as more than a utility, as an
opportunity to loop back and question the
relationship between function and design,
though with this historical foregrounding the
exhibition is very much about contemporary
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