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Cheryl Lucas Subterfuge 9 (detail) 2022. Ceramic. Courtesy of The National and McLeavey Gallery
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Cheryl Lucas Royal Muntin Ware Ref. No. 6.3/2011 2011-12 (detail). Ceramic. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, purchased 2012
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Cheryl Lucas Skin Fence 2021 (detail). Ceramic. courtesy of The National and McLeavey Gallery
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Cheryl Lucas Milkstock (detail) 2017. Glazed porcelain. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, purchased 2018
This exhibition is now closed
Seductive surfaces and tough issues – these are ceramics made for the eyes and mind.
In plants, densely interlaced zig-zags offer protection from predators and climatic challenges. In sculptures, they offer excitement; opening up the possibilities of object making in captivating new directions. In riotously glazed works fresh from her Ōhinehou Lyttelton studio, renowned ceramic artist Cheryl Lucas co-opts the distinctive, dynamic forms of Aotearoa’s divaricating shrubs, likening their defensive tangles to our necessary isolation during Covid-19. Accompanying these never-before-seen pieces are four significant installations selected from Lucas’s extraordinary four-decade career. All explore a range of contemporary issues, from the environmental impact of intensive dairying to the loss and destruction that followed the 2010/11 Canterbury earthquakes.
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Date:
27 August – 4 December 2022 -
Location:
Ravenscar Gallery W A Sutton Gallery -
Curator:
Felicity Milburn -
Exhibition number:
1125