Dancing Together: Jane Reilly & Prue Venables
Jane Reilly & Prue Venables, Grater neckpiece, 2017, 22cm x 12cm, Copper, thread, enamel, porcelain. Photo: e.g.etal
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Map reference number: 11
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Downstairs, 167 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 21 August – 2 September
Mon–Thu 10am–6pm, Fri 10am–7pm, Sat 10am–5pm Opening: Fri 25 August, 4–7pm
Artist/s: Jane Frances Reilly & Prue Venables
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Engrossed in a vital life affirming need to make, Jane Frances Reilly and Prue Venables present collaborative works across the fields of metal and ceramics. Trained both as potters and then later as jewellers, they delight in interweaving their ideas, imaginations and personalities, each responding to the other, as new contemporary objects and jewellery pieces evolve. Objects of function envelop the activities of daily life, sometimes noticed and celebrated, sometimes lurking and almost invisible. Each one nevertheless holds history, thought, time, the imprint of the mind and the hands of its maker. The potter turns naturally to the vessel where a skin of clay restrains internal spaces awaiting filling and emptying as the patterns of living unfold. The jeweller more obviously interweaves memory, place, celebration and time into forms to adorn the body. Each piece of this work has developed through combinations of responses, a process that is ever evolving.
a. Jane Reilly & Prue Venables, Beater, 2017. Copper, thread, enamel, porcelain. 22x8cm
b. Jane Reilly & Prue Venables, Beater, 2017. Copper, thread, enamel, porcelain. 33x5cm
c. Jane Reilly & Prue Venables, Beater, 2017. Copper, thread, enamel, porcelain. 22x8cm
d. Jane Reilly & Prue Venables, Scoop, 2017. Copper, thread, enamel, porcelain. 25x14cm
e. Jane Reilly & Prue Venables, Paddles, 2017. Copper, enamel, porcelain. Approx 16x6cm
f. Jane Reilly & Prue Venables, Sieve, 2017. Copper, enamel, porcelain. 45x17cm
b. Jane Reilly & Prue Venables, Beater, 2017. Copper, thread, enamel, porcelain. 33x5cm
c. Jane Reilly & Prue Venables, Beater, 2017. Copper, thread, enamel, porcelain. 22x8cm
d. Jane Reilly & Prue Venables, Scoop, 2017. Copper, thread, enamel, porcelain. 25x14cm
e. Jane Reilly & Prue Venables, Paddles, 2017. Copper, enamel, porcelain. Approx 16x6cm
f. Jane Reilly & Prue Venables, Sieve, 2017. Copper, enamel, porcelain. 45x17cm
About the Artist
In a world full of products without meaning, Jane Frances Reilly makes sense of things through interpreting the world’s shadows, what lies behind, and what lies in the mark making we can all do. In her work, she captures abstract ideas, fleeting glimpses and memories that have no words – making her own language of things. Her vessels and jewellery speak of family, communication, belonging, identity and personal history. Jane finds peace when she creates, letting her hands, heart and intuition take over. The studio becomes a meditation space, where the world outside is no longer.
Prue Venables has established a national and international reputation as one of Australia's leading contemporary ceramic artists. A search for simplicity and quietness, an essential stillness, motivates her work. The making of functional pots, the exploration of objects to be held and used, alongside a search for new and innovative forms, provides a lifetime of challenge and excitement.
In a world full of products without meaning, Jane Frances Reilly makes sense of things through interpreting the world’s shadows, what lies behind, and what lies in the mark making we can all do. In her work, she captures abstract ideas, fleeting glimpses and memories that have no words – making her own language of things. Her vessels and jewellery speak of family, communication, belonging, identity and personal history. Jane finds peace when she creates, letting her hands, heart and intuition take over. The studio becomes a meditation space, where the world outside is no longer.
Prue Venables has established a national and international reputation as one of Australia's leading contemporary ceramic artists. A search for simplicity and quietness, an essential stillness, motivates her work. The making of functional pots, the exploration of objects to be held and used, alongside a search for new and innovative forms, provides a lifetime of challenge and excitement.
