Exhibition | |
Date: | 25/Oct/2022 to 05/Feb/2023 |
Curated by: | Isabelle Sully |
At: | La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo |
Artists: |
Anna Daučíková, Luke Fowler, Gail Hastings, Rita Keegan and pieces from the Etta Hirsh Ceramics Collection, with exhibition design in collaboration with Maud Vervenne |
List of works by GH: |
Afternoon Tea at 4:00pm |
Curatorial description: |
Citational choices takes La Trobe University’s Etta Hirsh collection of ceramics as its point of departure. The Etta Hirsh Ceramics Collection is an eclectic array of ceramic artworks produced by Australian artists between the early 1960s and late 1990s, donated in avid collector Etta Hirsh’s name to La Trobe University between 2009 and 2011. The collection, in a careful compulsion towards conservation, remains largely in storage. Yet when Etta Hirsh began collecting ceramics in the 1950s, she never intended for them to become static. Instead she used them in her everyday life, maintaining their function while also appreciating them all the more through living with them so intimately. |
Bibliography: | Isabelle Sully, Citational choices, La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo 2022, p.3, 4. |
Image: |
Citational Choices by Isabelle Sully at the La Trobe Institute. Amelia Wallin is pictured with the trolley from ‘Afternoon Tea at 4:00pm’. Amelia kindly served tea as part of the work each day at 4:00pm. Photo by Leon Schoots. |
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I acknowledge the Kulin Nation’s Yaluk-ut Weelam clan of the Boon Wurrung people as custodians of the lands, waterways and skies where I live and work. I pay my respect to their Elders past, present and emerging. I recognise their cultural faithfulness, strength and resilience against the trauma of colonisation. First Peoples’ sovereignty has never been ceded.
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