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Are we there yet?

For each artist making art is essentially an individual journey; the highs of getting it to work and the lows when it doesn’t make sense or you open the kiln door to find a disaster

A joint exhibition at Back to Back Galleries, Cooks Hill. The Athena Group

For each artist making art is essentially an individual journey; the highs of getting it to work and the lows when it doesn’t make sense or you open the kiln door to find a disaster.  Is it ever really finished?  Possibly not.  The idea of the artist as gifted or prescient is common but in reality, to most artists, it feels more like an addictive obsession.  Is the journey linear, from here to there, building one idea on another to get there; or do we explore lots of different paths to find a central point?  In this exhibition we plan to reveal something of the process each artist uses as well as the vastly different approaches individuals can employ. 

 

Exhibition Date: 24th March 2017. Official opening 6pm 24th March
Gallery: Back to Back Galleries, 57 Bull Street

 

Newcastle Herald review: Jill Stowell, 8th April 2017

Athena is Back

The intergenerational Athena group exhibits every year at Back to Back Galleries, mixing graphics and ceramics.

This year the anticipated high standard was maintained, with fallen leaves inspiring the monoprints of Helene Leane, the collage prints of Jeanne Harrison and Pat Davidson’s intricate fabric replicas, while Faye Collier assembles long leaves into openwork ceramic bowls.

Sue Stewart’s elegant ceramic bottle forms set up agreeable tensions with fine lines of abstract decoration.

Piano keys and electronic fragments combined for Lucile Carson’s evocative overcrowded boats

 

By Sue Stewart

About Sue
I have been working with clay for around 30 years and I am still enjoying the process.

I began my journey with clay through a TAFE certificate course that led to making domestic ware for galleries and gift shops.

Many years later I went onto university and completed a Visual Arts Degree followed by Post Graduate studies including a Masters Degree and a Department of Education Diploma. I taught part time at Newcastle University and TAFE in the ceramics departments and Art in various high schools. I am now working in the studio at every opportunity.

I employ a broad range of skills to realise my craft and art-works that alternate between hand-built sculptural forms, figurative sculptures and wheel thrown forms and domestic ware.

Hand-built forms have passed through many phases, I have been inspired by the erosion of rocks along the coast, the white foam and blue/green of the water.

My most recent work has taken on a more painterly quality on wheel-thrown and hand-built forms