Alchemies is an installation of ceramic art presented in the glass cabinets of the Kingston City Hall foyer. Artist Narelle White shares recent discoveries from her nearby studio and brings contemporary craft practice to a civic space. Using methods of accumulation and assembly, she shares her lively, organic artworks - from small experimental forms to larger creaturely shapes. This installation will evolve over the course of Craft Contemporary - so that visitors may encounter different explorations on different days. In this way, Alchemies will respond to the ever-changing breadth of community and cultural activities that transpire in City Hall, and reflect the dynamism of creative enquiry.
Narelle White is an artist-in-residence at the Kingston Arts Ceramic Studio, which sits beside City Hall on Bunurong Country. Narelle approaches ceramic labour as a field of enquiry and engages her materials as willful co-conspirators. Her work explores qualities such as porosity, contingency and subjectivity to change; underpinned by an observance of the intelligibility of matter. Inspired by a lineage of women artists with distinctive material signatures, she is alert to the feminist and ecological implications of rethinking our relationships with matter.
Image: Photographer Annika Kafcaloudis
