EXHIBITIONS / TREVOR FRY

26.08.2010 to 18.09.2010

Trevor Fry's perseverant and continuous interdisciplinary art practice increased in complexity through his recent investigations and preoccupations with the medium of ceramics. His courage in crossing theoretical and practical boundaries is accompanied by a deep concern for the positioning of ethical issues and references in the context of contemporary arts.
A remarkable paradigmatic shift occurs in his new clay works, where he expands the figurative focus of his performative media to the direct and physical involvement of his hands and body with the clay material in the making of large-scale ceramic sculptures. 'Signs of work' and 'traces of making' are transposed through his archaic and ancient coil-building techniques onto the elaborate surfaces and sophisticated structures of these clay vessels. Through his medium specific decisions he refers to the significant theoretical and practical aspect and sense of craft, which is strongly present in ceramics.
The possibilities of investigating contemporary art from the point of view of 'making' contributes to ceramics' potential to be a critical medium and at the same time linked anthropologically to the origins of humanity. To engage art through the optic of alternative depths is of extraordinary importance today, in particular in the context of science's competing ideas about the linkages between cultural production and reality.

R.O., Sydney 7.7.2010

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