Ceramics: Art and Perception

Tableware Wear Where?

North of Hobart and just off the high street of one of its freshly revitalised and increasingly vibrant suburbs, the Moonah Arts Centre plays host to many varied exhibitions and performances, including the 2016 Tasmanian Ceramics Association annual show Tableware Wear Where?

Delightfully engaging and loaded with playful work, this exhibition – as may be deduced from the grammarian title – takes that which is often taken for granted to be used as blank canvases for the display of food, the containment of tea, or other beverages, scoured clean and shoved away in dark cupboards,

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