Ceramics: Art and Perception

Rachel Wood: Sentient Sturt Gallery Mittagong, Sept – Nov 2019

was UK-based ceramic artist Rachel Wood’s first major exhibition in Australia following her residency at the Sturt Craft Centre in 2019. Wood’s ceramics delight in a vision of the natural world, told through experiences of bushwalking and exploration of the remnants of Gondwanaland − from the southern highlands, the Blue Mountains, the Central Coast and the Warrumbungles − revealing the harshness and beauty of this unforgiving country. Her observations and subsequent interpretations of these landscapes have served

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