Bettina WILLNER:
Neo-Serpentine
30 Mar - 23 April 2022
Bettina Willner’s practice considers the connection between material, form, nature, architecture, and memory within contemporary ceramics. Characteristics of her sculptural pieces include organic and geometric structures, textural and glistening glazes, gestural hand-building techniques. These in combination produce objects that sit between sculpture, painting, and drawing.
On a personal level, these works connect the artist to her memories of ancient cities and rugged coastlines, especially of the architectures found there, some human-made, others natural.
In turn, the ornamental scale of her work concentrates the energy of these often vast architectures, making them intimate. Furthermore, the cyclical and repetitive nature of the artist’s work also evokes a wider connection to making within the continuum of everyday life.
From this inquiry, Willner’s work sits between the diminutive and the encompassing, sculpture and drawing, classicism and abstraction, chaos and control.
TUE - FRI: 10 - 5
SAT: 11 - 5
or by appointment
1214 High Street,
Armadale, Victoria 3143
+61 3 9500 8511