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28.02 - 07.05 2022
Events & Exhibitions

Tender Brick: The Material Epiphanies of Peter Hawkesby

Craft & Object, Sculpture, Visual Arts
28 February 2022 10:00am
/ Tender Brick tracks the range and depth of Peter Hawkesby’s ceramic production since his return to full-time making in 2016.
Toi Moroki CoCA Gallery, 66 Gloucester Street, Christchurch
image Peter Hawkesby, ‘White Demolition Tick’, 2019 and ‘Demolition Tick’, 2019. Photograph by Samuel Hartnett.

A pair of far-flung moments in history set the conditions for the exhibition ‘Tender Brick: The Material Epiphanies of Peter Hawkesby’. The first was when Picasso used glue to make constructions that irrevocably altered the conception of sculpture as a form of ‘carving’ or ‘modelling’ of a singular form. The second is the audacious choice Hawkesby made during the mid 1970s to entirely dispense with the potter’s wheel and make ceramics by any other means.

Curated by Richard Fahey.

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