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Jacquelyn Greenbank
Free Range
Soft sauté with egg
2024
Watercolour paint on calico, foam, dacron, ceramic egg
800 x 800 x 110mm
$1650 | ENQUIRE
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Gerard Dombroski
Free Range
Eggs on toast
2024
Stainless steel
350 x 1000 x 900mm
$7500 | ENQUIRE
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Installation view
Free Range
$POA | ENQUIRE
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Cheryl Lucas
Free Range
Egg Stops
2024
Glazed ceramic, ceramic eggs
Approx 90 x 70 x 70 mm
$420 pair | ENQUIRE
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Cheryl Lucas
Free Range
Egg Stops
2024
Glazed ceramic, ceramic eggs
Approx 90 x 70 x 70 mm
$420 pair | ENQUIRE
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Cheryl Lucas
Free Range
Egg Stops
2024
Glazed ceramic, ceramic eggs
Approx 90 x 70 x 70 mm
$420 pair | ENQUIRE
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Cheryl Lucas
Free Range
Egg Stops
2024
Glazed ceramic, ceramic eggs
Approx 90 x 70 x 70 mm
$420 pair | ENQUIRE
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Cheryl Lucas
Free Range
Egg Stops
2024
Glazed ceramic, ceramic eggs
Approx 90 x 70 x 70 mm
$420 pair | ENQUIRE
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Emma Fitts
Free Range
Reversible Dozen
2024
Acrylic on canvas, painted cotton rope
320 x 155 x 70 mm
$750 | ENQUIRE
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Installation view
Free Range
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Cat Fooks
Free Range
Bombay Duck
2024
Oil and mixed media on board
370 x 370 x 65mm
$4,400
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Cat Fooks
Free Range
Bombay Duck
2024
Oil and mixed media on board
370 x 370 x 65mm
$4,400
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Sandra Thomson
Free Range
Towards a Mammoth
2024
Ceramic, ink, chalk
60 x 45mm
$180 each | ENQUIRE
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Sandra Thomson
Free Range
Towards a Mammoth
2024
Ceramic, ink, chalk
60 x 45mm
$180 each | ENQUIRE
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Sue & Alan Upritchard
Free Range
Egg and spoon
2024
Various wood, ceramic egg
210 x 50mm (egg & spoon)
$850 set | ENQUIRE
Free Range
A group exhibition
28 Aug – 28 Sep 2024
Wayne Youle, Steven Junil Park, Jacquelyn Greenbank, Gerard Dombroski, Cat Fooks, Emma Fitts, Nichola Shanley, Julia Holderness, Peter Hawkesby, Kate Fitzharris, Lisa Patterson, Delaney Davidson, Janna van Hasselt, Sue & Alan Upritchard, Sandra Thomson & Cheryl Lucas
Group exhibition Free Range looks both forward and back – reflecting on past projects and gatherings, milestones and near misses, while anticipating the coming of Koanga | Spring, and an energising new season for our artists.
In 2023, Objectspace and The National brought together ten artists for Living Room, an exhibition that considered the notion of being ‘lived with’, through pieces responding to the objects and architecture of daily life. To complete his coffee table work, A collection of questionable choices, Wayne Youle incorporated ten ceramic eggs made by Cheryl Lucas, graded by colour and arranged in a series of orderly concrete hollows.
These eggs had been made ten years earlier for her award-winning Sculpture on the Peninsula installation in the chook run at Loudon Farm, Teddington. But, it was this collaboration with Wayne Youle that hatched the idea for Free Range.
Originally, 1000 eggs were made by Cheryl, then Sue and Alan Upritchard stepped in to help create the colossal clutch of 2000 for the first iteration. As in nature, this is a temporal exercise. Each plaster mold can only be used once a day, as it has to dry fully between uses. The hollow forms, cast in homemade clay slip, emerge in shades of nutmeg and cream.
In a delicious facsimile of neighbourly provision, 16 artists were each given 12 eggs for Free Range – a concept that is equal parts delight and curiosity, calling upon friends and makers to see how they would answer the creative challenge. Many of the original Living Room creators make a return, these joined by a helping of new artists in the mix. This reconvergence of artists in one group show, at Cheryl’s invitation, speaks to a companionable atmosphere of mutual regard, a spirit of togetherness and connection through craft.
Sixteen contemporary artists plunder the associations of the egg. Rich with potential, eggs serve as symbols of rustic abundance, of new life, the continuation of cycles, of caretaking, and of sustenance. Inherently fragile, the neat organic capsule yet protects a hidden bounty.
The assembled artists take these cues and run. From soft sculpture, stainless steel, carved wood, ceramics, textiles, and woven fibre, the artists respond with an array of unique solutions. Familiar forms are reimagined, glazed, hand painted, nested within a variety of chambers, cartons, and cradles. Buttery yellows and frying accoutrements become vibrant textile fields. Works snatch inspiration from henhouse and kitchen hob, childhood games and novelty races, staging a fantastic egg hunt within the gallery space.
Free Range offers a place at our table, a seat among friends from which to savour the moment. The eggy breakfast is transformed into an icon of connectedness and community.
Tessa McPhee
> View full exhibition catalogue for Free Range