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Andrea Hylands - HYPERCLAY
Thursday November 10 2011
Welcome to the fifth instalment of our 8-part series, profiling the artists featured in our current exhibition, HYPERCLAY: Contemporary Ceramics. You can catch up on all of the previous entries here.
This week: Andrea Hylands.
Hylands grew up initially in Iran, where her parents were based, before relocating to the UK, where she went to art college. European artists then became her influence, prior to her moving to Australia in the early 1980s. Here, she set up her studio in central Victoria, beginning her ceramics practice in earnest.
Hylands work for HYPERCLAY, New Warriors, is a collection of 55 slipcast bone china figures on a found wooden base. Each figure is unique, the result of hand manoeuvred slip within a mould, lined up in rows on the base. They are beautiful, fragile-looking pieces, simple and complex at the same time.
Visiting Object
St. Margarets, 417 Bourke St
Surry Hills NSW 2010
Tuesday-Friday: 11am-5pm
Saturday & Sunday: 10am-5pm
Free admission
+61 2 9361 4511
gallery@object.com.au
