Converge /\ Diverge
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We are in residence at The Tamara Date Farm, hosted by Watch This Space, July 4 - 18, 2022. We are looking forward to sharing our work with you Sunday July 17, 2022 at our Open Day. More information here.
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We are thrilled to be attending "Apmere Mparntwe" The 16th Australian Ceramics Triennale in Mparntwe/ Alice Spring July 20 - 22, 2022. This festival hosts the premiere for Personal Space, a participatory performance work of the handbuilding clay process. Book in your spot here.
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Catch us at the closing ceremony for an evening improvised performance of clay, dance and music. Hosted at Watch This Space, July 22, 2022.
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Converge/\Diverge is an enquiry into the relationship between dance and ceramics by choreographer & dancer Rosslyn Wythes and ceramist Holly Macdonald. It compares and contrasts the two mediums, starting with the material properties of the body and clay and the relationship of each to time and space. The collaboration is underpinned by shared interests; compositional strategies, abstraction and non-verbal modes of communication. Roz and Holly harness the tension between their mediums to reveal unexpected or unexamined relationships between bodies, both human and non human.
About Holly
Holly Macdonald is an Australian artist currently living and working in Newcastle on unceded Awabakal and Worimi lands. Holly’s creative practice combines drawing, installation and hand building in clay to interrogate the dynamic relationship between object, place and the body.
Holly initially studied architecture and engineering before discovering her true passion for ceramics. She graduated from the National Art School in Warrang/ Sydney with a BFA (Ceramics) in 2014. Her graduate body of work was awarded the Sabbia Gallery Prize and the Mansfield Prize. In 2017 Macdonald relocated to Naarm/ Melbourne to complete Honours in Fine Art (First Class) at RMIT.
Holly has exhibited throughout Australia and undertaken residencies both locally and internationally. As well as maintaining a studio practice, she has contributed time and enthusiasm to organisations such as The Australian Ceramics Association, The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (Naarm/ Melbourne), Firstdraft (Warrang/ Sydney) and kil.n.it Experimental Ceramics (Warrang/ Sydney).
See her work on Instagram
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The following video is of the process-in-performance work Personal Space, at Testing Ground (AU).
This collaboration is supported by Dance Makers Collective's Making Spaces Program, the Artist Commons ASBL, Cumberland City Council, Peacock Gallery.
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More information.
Holly Macdonald, Residual Frame, 2021, Porcelain, stoneware, ceramic stain, glaze, 16 (h)x12 (w)cm, Photographer : Zan Wimberly
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Holly Macdonald, Double Garage, 2020, terracotta, stained porcelain, porcelain slip, underglaze, ceramic crayon, 23 (h)x21 (di)cm, photo courstey of the artist