EXHIBITION HOURS
11AM–5PM TH–SA, 11AM–4PM SU

OPENING DRINKS
2–5PM SATURDAY 24 OCT

 

There is a particular kind of weight that comes from feeling safe — warm, familiar, hard to argue with. Unbearable Lightness sits inside that contradiction: the comfort of containment, and the quiet itch to know what lies beyond it.

The painted imagery exposes the tension which exists inside the safest of places, when the mind allows a window to be opened; the imagining of another life running parallel to the present one.

To achieve lightness in porcelain is to acknowledge the quiet weight of its creation: the peril of collapse in the kiln, the exactness of liquid slip, and the volatile physics of heat and gravity. What emerges from the fire is a porcelain body that holds memory and space. This collection explores the tension between weight and weightlessness in slip-cast porcelain. The forms balance rigid structural discipline with delicate, unburdened surfaces.The quiet friction between permanence and transience.

We are earth bound creatures and often feel at the mercy of the laws of nature, society, our beliefs and expectations. We can fear the risk of taking the step to live life differently. We can focus less on the burdens which weigh us down.

Can we toy with the lightness, freedom and possibilities that accompany being untethered from the solid landscape below? We can start with dreaming. Imagining letting go, seeking connection with each other, with the natural world and enjoying moments of exhilaration in the boundless sky.

Yuri Shimmyo ‘Bird Cage’
Yuri Shimmyo ‘My Brilliant Career’
Sabina Morrow ‘Delighting’
Sabina Morrow ‘Flying’
Annarie Hildebrand ‘Textured Vases’
Annarie Hildebrand ‘Travelling Shadow’

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

This is the first time that we; Yuri, Annarie and Sabina have exhibited together.

We met a number of years ago through our separate interest and practice of printmaking, while we were members of the Open Studio Printmaking course at Meadowbank TAFE.

Yuri is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice encompasses painting, printmaking and sculpture. She has exhibited her prints widely. She has painted for many years, studying at the Julian Ashton Art School. Her talent as a painter was recognised as a finalist at many prestigious art prizes, notably when she was chosen as a finalist in the 2020 Archibald prize. She has recently added sculpture to her artistic accomplishments.

Annarie Hildebrand is a Sydney based ceramic artist and printmaker. Her art is an exploration of geometric shapes and forms and the shadows cast by objects, expressed through the mediums of clay and print. She is continuously exploring ways to merge these two and cross pollinate ideates to create a cohesive body of work. She draws inspiration from architectural forms, and the natural world.

The interplay of shapes and shadows is her visual language, where they playfully dance together. Ultimately , her art is a reflection of an inner world, a visual manifestation of thoughts and ideas.

Sabina is a Sydney based printmaker, who continues to expand her techniques in printmaking. Sabina creates compositions with a variety of line, texture and colour, stencils, with many types of plates also known as matrices. These include zinc, copper, aluminium, lino and high-impact plastic, while exploring the variety and surprising results these different surfaces bring alone or as multi plate prints.

The compositions that she creates are inspired by the world around her. These include the fluid lines of figures, the sillhouettes and shapes of the Australian landscapes, or everyday items or activities with their own intrinsic shapes and interest. Sabina invites the viewer to take a fresh look at the everyday.

Sabina was a resident artist of the Art Gallery on Darling in Balmain for many years and exhibited there as well as exhibiting at various art prizes and exhibitions.