This exhibition in Gallery SParc has been extended to October 23

Bill Young

In conjunction with the Latrobe Regional Gallery exhibition ‘Big Picture’ The art of Bill Young’, Come and see the exquisite drawings created by recently departed Gippsland artist William Young at arc.

Bill may have been a friend, a mentor or a teacher of yours, or you may know Bill’s paintings through the collections at the Latrobe Regional Gallery and the Gippsland Art Gallery at the Port of Sale.

Sparc Gallery at Arc is currently exhibiting Bill’s drawings and sketch books, which he created alongside his paintings as a means of exploring an idea before committing it to canvas.

Additionally

Janine Good, a close friend and student of Bill’s, will be celebrating his work and impact Bill had on her own art practice, on the Sat 13th August in the Arc Switchroom from 1-4 pm and we hope you can come and share a glass to commemorate Bill’s considerable contribution to the Gippsland arts scene and contemporary Australian painting.

Sharon Anderson has an exhibition of posters designed and screen printed by her at arc in the print room from the 80’s and 90’s in SParc gallery at arc. The exhibition is running along with Gathered Threads until 3rd July. A great celebration of arcs 40 years

A stunning collection of work of significance within the Latrobe Vallery Arts practice and Australian ceramics

All artists have had an association with Arc Yinnar in the last 40 years and it’s connection to ceramics teaching and learning in the Latrobe Valley, Gippsland. The was funded by the Australian Museums and Galleries Association.

Gallery arc

THE ARTISTS

Adam Cox.

Adam Cox was a member and had a studio at arc in the 1990’s when in his twenties. He Spent his formative years working along side Kiyoshi Ino who lectured at the then Gippsland Centre for Art and Design, Gippsland Institute of Education /Monash University and Peter Corser who both also had studios at arc. Residing now in Mirboo North, Adam has been creating porcelain and stoneware pots, vases and bowls, working from his purpose-built studio in the beautiful Strzelecki Ranges, Gippsland Victoria, His works are both decorative and functional works. His work has evolved to a uniquely elegant approach to form and the use of slip carving and beautiful crystalline glazes.
Adams work can be viewed within the Featherston Cabinets in the foyer gallery of arc and his works are for sale.

Adam Cox , Matt Blue Vase with Crystalline Glaze. 2022

Chris Myers

Chris Myers established his own studio in 1973 after training at Caulfield Institute of Technology. In 1981 he was working at Kaligda Pottery, in Frankston, Victoria and teaching full-time at Caulfield. In 1996 he was still teaching full-time but had moved to Beachside Pottery at Aspendale, Victoria. Chris tutored in ceramics at the Central institute of TAFE (Gippstafe) Newborough in the 2000’s and many of his students were members of arc who studied with Chris at the campus studio and practiced their in arcs Ceramic studio.
Chris’s simple, elegant forms are decorated with an extraordinarily complex approach, built up by sand-blasting and/or acid-etching the previously fired glazed surface and applying low-fire lustres. The effect creates a beautifully balanced and elegant works. These works compare strikingly with his equally beautiful hand built and dry glazed mid fired forms in which he also works.

Chris Myers lustred lidded container.

Chris Myers, Rainforest Patterns, mid range fired 1200.

Christopher Headley

Chris Headley studied at York School of Art before majoring in Ceramics at the Central School of Art in London, learning to throw with (the late) Michael Casson and hand-build with Gordon Baldwin. Chris graduated in 1973 and set out for Australia

Christopher Headley has  connections with both Federation (previously Monash ) University and arc Yinnar. He undertook his Master’s degree at the Australian National University, graduating in 1991; and in 1999, with Dr Owen Rye as his supervisor, gained his PhD from Monash University, Victoria. (http://www.christopherheadley.net/#!about)
During this time he spent time working in the ceramics studio at arc

His work in the exhibition comprises narrative collections of beautifully rendered objects of white earthenware with his own designed decals and lustre as surface decoration. The observer is invited to pause and read the work. 

Christopher Headley, Lost Worlds, White Earthenware with ceramic decals.

Anthea Williams

A long time member of arc, currently lecturing at the now Federation Uni,  Anthea William’s unique approach to ceramics is observable in her series  'Black Hole’ black fired ceramics which respond to the local industry and reference the grime and black dust of a world crumbling under our reliance on coal. The works are a combination of clay and charcoal

Anthea Williams, 2 works from her Black hole series

Dragi Jankovic

Dragi Jankovic is a member of arc and is currently working part time in the Ceramics Studio as tutor and technician. Dragi tutored in ceramics at the Central Gippsland Institute of TAFE (Gippstafe) at the Newborough Campus for many years alongside Chris Myers.  

In 1973 Dragi met Kyoshi Ino, who greatly influenced his artistic profession, with ceramics playing a pivotal role in his professional career as an artist.

Many of Dragi’s and Chris Myers students at Gippstafe, particularly during the early 2000’s, were also members at arc, studying  with Dragi and Chris at the campus studio and practicing their craft in their spare time at arc"s Ceramic Studio.

Dragi’s large striking sculptural forms  and smaller functional vessels, have been high fired in gas kilns resulting in beautiful reduction glazes that produce a smooth gloss surface.  As well on show are his Shino carbon trap glazes,  a glazing technique that originated in Japan,  that have less predictable but equally mesmerising decorative surface effects. 

Dragi Jankovic ‘Large Form’, Stoneware, Copper Red Glaze and ‘Mechanical’ Stoneware, Mirror Black.

John Rojo

John Rojo has worked as a graphic designer, teacher, potter, painter, lecturer and builder. He works from his own studio and gallery in the Tarra Valley. Wood fired pottery is his passion and his wood fired work and works with painterly and patterned surface design can be also seen on show in Gallery arc. John Rojo was a post graduate student of Owen Ryes during the Monash years and recently lecturer at Federation University Gippsland.

John Rojo, ‘Billabong’ underglaze design.

Kiyoshi Ino (1946 to 2008)

Kiyoshi Ino was born in Kyoto, Japan in 1946 to a family that has been involved in the production of pottery for some 160 years. Working in the family studio he studied at the Kyoto School of Arts and Crafts, completing his diploma of Ceramic Art in 1969. He then studied a post graduate course in glazing at the Kyoto Technical School and later lectured in ceramics at the Kyoto Technical School.

In 1973 Ino was one of a group of Japanese potters that travelled to Australia following in the footsteps of the famous Japanese potter, Shoji Hamada, who had visited in 1965.  Kiyoshi Ino visited Sydney in 1973, and worked with Japanese potter Shigeo Shiga . He undertook a position as Visiting Lecturer in Ceramics at the Gippsland Institute of Technical Education, Yallourn, Victoria, from 1974 to 1976 and returned to the Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education as Assistant to the Senior Lecturer in Ceramics in 1979. He ceased teaching at the Gippsland Institute in 1988. Ino was involved in the establishment of ceramic space for artists at arc where he had a studio and continued to work and teach until his death in 2008. He has exhibited extensively throughout Australia.

Kiyoshi Ino and Adam Cox, Bowl, Private collection. Circa mid 1990’s

Kiyoshi Ino, Saki Set, Crackle Glaze, Private Collection

Kiyoshi Ino, 3 bowls Crystalline glaze, Private collection.

Below: Jillaine Hurrell, Ochre Vessels, 1990 Feeney’s Clay, Raku, Collection Of the Artist

On wall Egyptian Tales III Walker’s Clay, mid fired, dry underglazes Collection Of the Artist

Seascape III, 1990 Feeney’s Clay, Raku, Collection Of the Artist

On wall, Celtic Roots, 1997 Walker’s Clay Mid Fired, Mixed Media Collection Of the Artist

Above Jillaine Hurrell, Flights of Fancy 1 & 2, 1988 Raku & High Fired, underglaze colours & clear glazes Collection Of the Artist

Jillaine Hurrell.
Jilliane Hurrell, a student of both Owen Rye and Hedley Potts , at the Gippsland Instute of Advanced Education. Jillaine taught the Mainstreet Group from Moe Lifeskills in arc’s Ceramic Studio during the late 1990s to early 2000s and curated several of their exhibitions.
She continued to work with Mainstreet students and clients. Her uniquely formed dry glaze raku vessels, raku & high fired plates, platters and mid fired mixed media wall hangings inspired by her travel and created during this time, are featured in the show.  

Above Peter Corser, Water ways, raku fired.
Peter Corser is a long term member of arc. He spent a lot of his making time in the ceramics and print making studios when active at arc during the 1990s and early 2000’s during the wood and raku firing heydays of arc’s ceramic studio. . The above work Waterways was Raku fired in the raku kiln (now decommissioned) in the back foyer and at the rear of arc some years before the community garden was established. The works immediately below Spirit Energy and Procreation were both works fired in the Woodfiring kiln that was built at the rear of arc and now has been dismantled. The new pizza oven now stands in the same place. Peter has taken various art Teaching positions in Gippsland, just recently retiring from the Koorie Art Studies Teaching at Gippsland Tafe, He also taught art at the Fulham corrections centre in Gippsland.

Below ::Installation Spirit Energy and Procreation, wood fired & Waterways raku fired & Platter, stoneware.

Above: Peter Corser, Medium Bowl Blue, Stoneware & Small bowl Green, Stoneware.

Hedley Potts

Artist Hedley Potts, whose expressive figurative work inspired by socio political narratives and personal stories, features in the exhibition, was one of six original staff in 1972 to build an art school at the Gippsland Institute of Education.  He developed the Ceramics Studio and taught and lectured  at G.I.A.E., through its various re-brandings to Monash University Gippsland Campus, now Federation University. He retired in 1994. Some 12 years after he arrived in Gippsland, students and members of arc from the art school with the same pioneering spirit, initiated the renovation of the arc building in Yinnar from its origins as a Butter factory and then built, along with other specialist studios, the current Ceramic Studio. Read more about Headley and his work at hedleypotts.weebly.com

Hedley Potts. Jeeralang Junction: Remembering Lucy 2021/22 & Jeeralang Junction:

Rescuing Lucy 1987

Hedley Potts Refugees: No Friend but NZ 2021

Hedley Potts, The Collection of Works at the Interconnections exhibition at arc

Owen Rye

Owen Rye, known internationally for being at the forefront of the contemporary wood-firing movement, undertook the position of lecturer at the Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education from 1985 until 1991 and then Senior Lecturer from 1992 until 2003.  Members of arc that included Kiyoshi Ino and Dragi Jankovic built a wood fired kiln (now dismantled) at the rear of arc during this second era.  A collection of Owen’s wood fired jars and bottles are a beautiful presence within this exhibition.

Owen Rye Blue Jar, Stoneware, ash glaze 2020

Owen Rye, Ochre Jar, stoneware ash glaze, 2020 & Blue Jar, Stoneware ash glaze 2020

Owen Rye, front Mottled Jar, stoneware feldspar glaze, 2022.

Owen Rye The collection of Jars and Bottles

 By Design :is a display of design products compiled from Ngarga Warendj Dancing Wombat X Alperstein Designs wares \( https://ngargawarendj.com/ ) and collaborative work fashioned by Churchill creatives Mick Harding and Kate Zizys with assistance from Iris Rugs

Dijanne Cevaal creates beautifully stitched textile works on dyed fabric that incorporate lino, monotype and screen printed imagery. In this exhibition Dijanne has been inspired by her discoveries on her morning walks near her home in Gippsland during the Pandemic.
‘I walked most mornings during the reign of the Pandemic these last 18 months and I feel fortunate to have had access to such a wonderful little bushland reserve. I took lots of photos and also wrote down random thoughts when I got home from my walk which I have fashioned into a poem of sorts. I have had some booklets made also entitled ‘Morning Walks in the Pandemic’ and have created new work in response to my walks, inspired by pickings and my photos.

The Owls of Nebraska exhibition and record launch ‘Inferno’ will be bumping into Sparc gallery on the Sept Fri 17th & Sat18th and bumping out on the Sunday 26th September

The Owls of Nebraska are a collaboration of artists Kate Zizys, Pezaloom, Kim Mac Donald Anthea Williams and Anthony Brandon. Their work involves sound, imagery, installations and sculpture, film and performance

The Owls of Nebraska, Received funding from Regional arts Victoria through the Victorian Government’s Sustaining Creative Workers initiative.
The Funding was to enable the Gippsland art collective to research and test a range of digital platforms to produce works together while physically apart. Inferno is their product.

The Owls encourage people to come and visit on September Sunday 19th & Friday 24th, Sat 25th, and Sun 26th - we will be playing our new record and printing the sleeves in-situ at the Sparc gallery space. Our record is for sale and includes a poster and custom-made cover art. We will also be showcasing the original drawings, collages, photographs, and prints we made as part of our Inferno e-book research in 2020, which was supported through a grant from Regional Arts Victoria and was screened as part of the Owls of Nebraska Checkmate live performance and screening at the Latrobe Regional Gallery in May 2021

In the SParc gallery from 12 - 28 Feb: Textiles by Dinah Barton in a solo show called "Fabric and Thread" ‘Fabric and Thread’ is a collection of textile collages of still life and landscape works inspired by the Australian outdoors, fauna and flora.