Held on the 15th Apr 2019 to
10th May 2019
at 9am to
5am
Image credit: Vincent McGrath (detail). Photography: Sonya Brough
Exhibition opening: 6pm - 7.30pm Monday 29 April
Exhibition guest opening speaker: Professor Rufus Black, Vice-Chancellor, University of Tasmania
Exhibition dates: 15 April - 10 May
Exhibition curator: Sonja Brough
The Ceramics Studio at the University of Tasmania, School of Creative Arts and Media was driven with passion and a love of imaginative expression by the late Emeritus Professor Vincent McGrath. Sadly, Vincent passed away from brain cancer in July 2012. He was instrumental in laying the foundations for the practice of ceramics to hold itself in a prominent position at the University of Tasmania.
His poetic understandings of a lived Landscape migrated from his journal drawings to the surface of his ceramic objects. The back and forth relationship between the surface and form is the tangent space that enabled Vincent to break through potential limits of ceramics as a medium.
This retrospective will exhibit paintings alongside ceramic works that Professor McGrath produced in the fading months of his life.
Presented by the Academy Gallery in partnership with the Australian Ceramics Triennale, Hobart and the School of Creative Arts and Media, University of Tasmania.
