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Jam
Factory Contemporary Craft and Design, Adelaide
1 March - 4 May 2003
National Museum of Art, Tokyo
27 May - 29 June 2003
Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
9 September - 13 October 2003
Artists: Catherine Truman,
Robin Best and Sue Lorraine.
Curator: Janice Lally
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The Jam Factory Contemporary Craft and Design Centre in Adelaide has
prepared the exhibition Light Black, a contemporary exhibition
of craft by Australian artists Robin Best, Sue Lorraine and Catherine
Truman. Light Black, which travelled to Japan in May 2003,
opened in Adelaide on 1 March - 4 May 2003, and was at Kyoto Museum
of Modern Art from 9 September to 13 October 2003.
Linked thematically, the works are all characterised by clean lines
and refined shapes demonstrating skillfully executed surface decoration
and detail. The works continue individual explorations of scientific
and anatomical phenomena, in particular organs and organisms of absorption,
filtration, liquid retention and storage. These include lungs, sponges,
bladders, sacs, and vessels represented through sculptural forms in
engraved porcelain, heat coloured mild steel and burnished and coloured
carved wood.
Light Black is a joint project of the Jam Factory Contemporary
Craft and Design Centre and the Asialink Centre of The University
of Melbourne, in partnership with the National Museum of Modern Art,
Tokyo and the Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
Light Black is part of the Australia-Japan Art Exhibitions
Program, an initiative of Asialink and the Australia-Japan Foundation.
It is further supported by the Australia Council, the Australian Government's
arts funding and advisory body, Arts SA and the Australian Embassy,
Tokyo.
Artists
The artists all have national and international profiles. They have
strong individual styles and are critically acclaimed for their refined
technical execution. Their focus on technical experimentation together
with the extensive research that underpins the development of their
concepts leads finally to the images that they create through intense
focussed physical labour, always requiring attention to detail. It
is the strong commonality linking science and art in their practices.
Robin Best
Robin Best is based at the Jam Factory Contemporary Craft and Design
Centre as the CAD-Ceram Coordinator. Her research into Computer Aided
Design and Computer Aided Manufacture for industrial ceramics led
to a South Australian Design Awards Merit award for design of the
Concertina bowl (1999). In 2001 she received the South Australian
Ceramics Award for Slime Mould. This is part of her recent
series of cast porcelain forms that take their inspiration from the
marine life and coastline of the Fleurieu Peninsula. These pieces
are deeply engraved using patterns of simple marine life including
sponges, algae and coral.
Sue Lorraine
Sue Lorraine is Head of the Metal Studio at the Jam Factory Contemporary
Craft and Design Centre and a founding member of Gray Street Workshop,
which has celebrated fifteen years of nationally and internationally
acclaimed activity. Science, medical history, museum exhibits and
popular culture are all sources of inspiration for her constructions
that image the matrices of relationships of the body. These investigations
have evolved through several years of multi-disciplinary practice.
Catherine Truman
Catherine Truman is a founding member of Gray Street Workshop and
a 1990 recipient of a SA Australia-Japan Foundation Scholarship to
study with four contemporary Netsuke carvers in Japan, where she has
since exhibited. She has national and international recognition for
her meticulously crafted objects and installations using carved and
stained English limewood.
The Curator:
Dr. Janice Lally, Exhibitions Curator at JamFactory Gallery, has developed
and managed a program of 12 exhibitions per year with accompanying
publications and artists talks since January 2001. These included
the JamFactory Biennial 2001, 3 New Curators' exhibitions
(2001-2002), Ritual of Tea (2002) and Transition and Reslience
(2002), From the Hothouse (2002), Litter of the Littoral
(2002) as well as editing the catalogue and developing and managing
the national tour of Glass State 2001 and the national tour Wild Nature
in Contemporary Australian Art and Craft (2002-2005).
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