Curated Exhibitions
Unspoken Bonds - Scratch Art Space, Sydney Australia 2025
Womens Work - Gaffa Gallery, Sydney Australia, 2019
In-Between - Gaffa Gallery / Sydney Craft Week 2019
Womens Work - Scratch Art Space, Sydney Australia, 2018
Unpsoken Bonds
Scratch Art Space
Anna Battersby
Paraskevy Begetis
Kristi Pupo
Eleni Tsamoglou
Unspoken Bonds explores the deep, silent relationships between women, with a focus on the maternal ties that shape us. These ties are felt, experienced within a somatic knowing. The love that a mother devotes is expressed in an unspoken labour of love, care and sacrifice that exists in the spaces between presence and absence, in what is given, held, and remembered. Many of the artists in this collection work with clay, which contains memory within its materiality. Clay reflects unspoken connection in its ability to be a malleable material that allows the artist to create a final form. In Unspoken Bonds, material becomes a vessel for the unseen—the gestures, the weight of devotion, and the enduring presence of connection that lingers as a legacy of love.
GAFFA GALLERY 2019
Curated by Kristi Pupo and Allegra Holmes
Allyson Adeney, Anna Battersby,
Sophie Cox, Victoria Hempstead,
Allegra Holmes, Kate Hughes,
Alexandra Jonscher, BK DIECI,
Laura Nolan & Kristi Pupo
Women’s Work challenges the validity of the enduring attitude that there is a ‘type’ of work that women artists make, while shining a light on the inherent negativity attached to the term ‘women’s work’.
In-Between
EXHIBITION OCTOBER 10 - OCTOBER 2019
Gaffa Precinct 281 Clarence St, Sydney CBD
Curated by Kristi Pupo and Anna Battersby
ANNA BATTERSBY, CANBORA BAYRAKTAR, SUSAN CHEN, MARCUS DILLON, JAN GUY, ALLEGRA HOLMES, LAURA NOLAN, KRISTI PUPO, MITSUO SHOJI AND ELENI TSOMIS
In-Between is an exhibition collating the fields of glass and ceramics. The ‘in-between’ is an essence of the unseen; the play between boundaries, binaries, dexterity, concepts, beauty and outcomes. This exhibition interrogates the idea of playing in-between purpose and chance, while working within the tangible frameworks of contemporary art and craft. This translates into a play between material and ethereal, amounting to an interchangeable and congruent harmonisation of the conceptual and the craftsman. The visual idea of an embodied object intersperses between morphological worlds of reality and imagination, acknowledging the perspective of both positive and negative margins. Each artist, a master within their own craft, manipulates, encompasses and modifies an inner realism, thus awakening an altered state of possibilities within time and space. The engaged activity of natural materials and technological forces utilised within glass and ceramic making segregate the subconscious and cognitive mind. In-between is the recognition of technical practices behind artistic execution. Within the intertwining space of art and craft the surface in-which they overlap - the In-between – is an opportunity for the evolution of functional and sculptural existence.
Scrtach Art Space 2019
Curated by Kristi Pupo and Allegra Holmes
Anna Battersby / Susan Chen
Allegra Holmes /Kristi Pupo
Sophie Temmhoff / Renee Rekes
Drawing on the legacy of artists like Mary Kelly and Mierle Laden Ukeles, this exhibition contests the conventionally accepted ideas of who artists are and what art can be. Women’s Work is an exhibition for artists working with media traditionally associated with craft practice. All participating artists have a studio practice based in ceramics.
When working with ceramics in contemporary art, there is still a pervading sense that one must justify ceramics as a valid medium for art. In this way, ceramics is something of a metaphor for the way women continue to have to justify themselves as artists. Women’s Work is comprised of a variety of artworks, including installation, live performance, video performance, ceramics and textile works.
Women’s Work furthers the position that art and craft are not necessarily mutually exclusive, as the artists included in this exhibition both embrace and subvert craft practices and mediums. This exhibition challenges the validity of the enduring attitude that there is a ‘type’ of work that women artists make, while shining a light on the inherent negativity attached to the term ‘women’s work’.
