During a 2013 residency at Medalta in Medicine Hat, Canada, Australian based artist Vipoo Srivilasa was seeking a way to bring fellow artists together. His compulsion for connection with other makers necessitated a simple and effective mechanism, ingeniously Srivilasa chose to invite fellow residents to make a modest, universal object as a way of both getting to know each other and celebrating their shared passion and profession. The object? A spoon!
Inspired
by the strong sense of collaboration and connection enabled by this
common object Srivilasa quickly realised the potential of the idea and
upon his return to Australia put out an open invitation through his
extensive networks, asking makers to create spoons and to submit digital
images. From 72 submissions (from 16 countries), 25 spoons were
selected by Srivilasa, with advice from Vicki Grima, editor of The
Journal of Australian Ceramics and Leslie Ferrin, curator of Ceramic Top
40.
The final collection, will be presented as a group in Object: Spoon
in the second venue of Ceramic Top 40 | New & Selected Works at
Harvard Ceramics in Allston, Massachusetts, USA.
Generated by his
basic human need for friendship in a new community, Srivilasa has
inspired an international engagement between established and
international ceramicists from 16 countries in this collaboration
OBJECT: SPOON.
This text appears in excerpted form. You can read the entire article in the OBJECT:SPOON story
by Ramona Barry and Beck Jobson from Hand Made Life Blog
25 spoons from these 2014 finalists will be on exhibit:
Tinne Maria
Andersen, Marta Armada, Elaine Bolt, Jim Bov’e, Meredith Brickell, Joey
Chiarello, Kris Coad, Rachel Cramer, Sally Curry, Trisha Dean, Carole
Epp, Klaus Gutowski, Evan Hobart, Vanessa Holle, Nayoung Im, Sukumarl
Leksawat, Steven Low and Thai Kwan, Miro Mackiewicz, Fiona McDonald,
Creina Moore, Jo Quirk, Bonnie Smith, Leilani Trinka, Gerry Wedd, Snow
Yu
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| Gerry Wedd |
CERAMIC TOP 40 | NEW & SELECTED WORKS
Ceramics Program, Office of the Arts at Harvard
Gallery 224, 224 Western Avenue, Allston, MA
DATES
Exhibition: May 27–August 16, 2014
Opening date: May 27, 2014
Exhibition hours: Mon-Fri 10.00 am – 16.00 pm min and by appointment
Other Events: June 11, 2014
2–5:00pm Workshop Demonstration with artist Lauren Mabry
5–6:00pm Curator Lecture with Leslie Ferrin
6–8:00pm Opening Reception
