IN THE GALLERY: Sugar
Avalanche, 2017
White raku and glaze
26 x 16 x 10cm
I don't pretend anymore, 2017
White raku and glaze
27 x 17 x 19cm
Hero, 2017
White raku and glaze
35 x 27 x 15cm
Outgrow, 2017
White raku and glaze
16 x 24 x 15cm
California, 2017
White raku and glaze
17 x 31 x 12cm
Chicken, 2017
White raku and glaze
40 x 16 x 15cm
Free-Roller, 2017
White raku and glaze
26 x 13 x 30cm
Don't let me down, 2017
White raku and glaze
22 x 20 x 15cm
Mountain, 2017
White raku and glaze
14 x 17 x 18cm
Crocodile, 2017
White raku and glaze
22 x 20 x 13cm
Bullshark, 2017
White raku and glaze
25 x 13 x 22cm
Cockatoo, 2017
White raku and glaze
26 x 19 x 12cm
Slide, 2017
White raku and glaze
9 x 31 x 18cm
Softie, 2017
White raku and glaze
10 x 28 x 16cm
Honeyeater, 2017
White raku and glaze
28 x 15 x 21cm
Snake, 2017
White raku and glaze
19 x 11 x 23cm
Milk, 2017
White raku and glaze
17 x 26 x 13cm
Little Fires, 2017
White raku and glaze
35 x 11 x 16cm
Liberator, 2017
White raku and glaze
28 x 20 x 12cm
I told myself to run, 2017
White raku and glaze
20 x 14 x 24cm
Whipped Cream, 2017
White raku and glaze
33 x 23 x 16cm
Tulip, 2017
White raku and glaze
23 x 24 x 16cm
Torpedo, 2017
White raku and glaze
29 x 12 x 19cm
The Warm-Up, 2017
White raku and glaze
30 x 12 x 16cm
The Knees Tremble, 2017
White raku and glaze
25 x 16 x 16cm
The Trick, 2017
White raku and glaze
14 x 28 x 13cm
The Nerve, 2017
White raku and glaze
21 x 21 x 12cm
Swagger, 2017
White raku and glaze
29 x 12 x 19cm
Abbey McCulloch
2 - 21 Dec 2017
Rather than paying heed to the idling murmurs of the mind, we can ignore our ever-increasing thought stream and find peace in listening to the body that has been there for us all along. It’s this discovery that compelled me to make work in a three-dimensional form. The works in Sugar capture the intensity of making that connection, they are about the sweetness of shutting the chatter out and finding a new source of contentment that starts with trusting something more corporeal.
The process of rolling of hundreds of clay coils and then constructing these forms that looked and felt completely like my drawings and paintings, took me by surprise. It was like being able to walk around and see the back of a drawing and feel it’s weight. I love how they make me feel and I love the impact that they have had on my process already.
– Abbey McCulloch, 2017.