Slip & Slurry A Group Exhibition of Contemporary Ceramics Bruny NORTH
May 9 – June 15, 2025
Bruny NORTH is proud to present Slip & Slurry, a group exhibition that celebrates the elemental poetics of clay and the diverse practices of contemporary ceramics.
Featuring six artists: Tim Burns (represented by Bett Gallery, Australia), Jamie Edward, Nicole Adams, Emma Targett, Kate Morton, and Mahdi Chandler.
The exhibition explores how form, function, and surface can speak to process, place, and perception. From wheel-thrown vessels to sculptural works and experimental firings, each artist contributes a distinct voice to this shared language of earth and fire.
Tim Burns’ work, Homage, is a quiet meditation on perception and the dissolving line between observer and observed. Inspired by a ceramic vessel by Kelly Austin, Burns draws on the sensual and intuitive aspects of drawing as a form of seeing that precedes understanding. Tim Burns is represented by Bett Gallery, Australia.
Mahdi Chandler, a craftsperson with over three decades of practice, works directly with the Tasmanian landscape, gathering local clays, pigments, and fibres. Her ceramic vessels are formed through organic processes including pit firing, raku, and botanical printing, often paired with coiled basketry woven from foraged plant materials. Fire, smoke, and soil become collaborators in richly layered works shaped as much by the elements as by intention.
Nicole Adams, based on Bruny Island, creates pieces that echo the island’s shifting textures and quiet histories. Her work engages with clay as both material and memory, reflecting the sedimentary nature of place, time, and human presence. Her forms capture erosion, tide, and the subtle impact of belonging and resilience in a remote landscape.
Emma Targett, a potter and designer from Moonah, Tasmania, offers a collection of functional and decorative vessels that honour the individuality of the handmade. Working across clay and painting, her practice emphasises the tactile relationship between maker and user, each piece an invitation to connection through daily ritual and quiet beauty.
Jamie Edward blends science, design, and storytelling in works that explore the deep ties between humans and natural systems. Drawing inspiration from celestial bodies, ecology, and the built environment, his ceramics engage with how the past and present shape our understanding of place and self.
Kate Morton’s practice is grounded in the philosophy that function is the true essence of pottery. Embracing imperfection, Morton prioritises use over aesthetic ideals, rims that bend, bottoms slightly uneven, creating honest, utilitarian forms that speak to the human hand and the vessels we rely on.
Together, these artists invite viewers into a shared contemplation of clay’s potential: as object, process, story, and ground.
Slip & Slurry speaks to both the instability and permanence of the ceramic form, and the tactile knowledge embedded in hand-worked craft.
Now showing at Bruny NORTH through June 15, 2025.
Gallery Hours: Friday: 11am – 7pm Saturday: 11am – 7pm Sunday: 11am – 3pm
