South African Clay Awards 2024

Rust-en-Vrede Gallery | 2 NOV - 7 DEC 2024 | Durbanville, Cape Town, SA

Inaugural SA Clay Awards Exhibition Showcases Ceramic Excellence

Prompted by its acceptance as an affiliate member of the International Academy of Ceramics (IAC), The Rust-en-Vrede Gallery + Clay Museum has announced the launch of the inaugural SA Clay Awards, which will exhibit its winning pieces from 2 November to 7 December 2024 for the first time.

As an organisation affiliated to Unesco and devoted to ceramic excellence, the IAC nod was seen as a fittingly momentous opportunity to propose a new biennale award and exhibition, in recognition of the wealth of skill and talent in the South African ceramics landscape.

Read full press release in Art Times

LIST OF AWARDEES:

Barker, Melissa
Bernstein, Bianca
Botha, Deirdre
Brett, Justin
Claassens, Lissa
Cronjé, Ella
Cruise, Wilma
Dahl, Astrid
Fani, Madoda
Fani, Siyabonga
Godwin, Sandy
Gregor, Mariëtte
Haines, Charmaine
Heesom-Green, Dianne
Hoets, Lesley-Ann

Hön, Eugene
Jarvis, Jane
Kotzé, Karin
Lambert, Dale
Louridas, Gari
Luthuli, Sbonelo
Jonker, Niël
Maweni, Chuma
May, Meriel
Mogridge, Andrew
Nthunya, Sesing Frank
Price, Gregg
Rybicka, Amanda
Schlapobersky, David and Felicity
Scott, Johannes

Sherlock, Adéle
Shirley, John
Sithole, Nicholas
Spencer, Nada
Swart, Johan
Van der Merwe, Uys
Van der Walt, Clementina
Van Rooyen, Karlien
Von Bismarck, Wiebke
Walford, Andrew
Walsh, Nick
Walter, Guy
Wentzel, René
Wilkinson, Geena

SELECTED WORK

In order to memorialise intimacy of the social space, Wilkinson’s selected artwork functions as a still life - snapshots of moments in our past. It speaks to the passing of time by memorialising everyday objects that would never make it into the archive, becoming a collection of little pleasures that encompass our in daily lives. The ceramic objects draw from the nostalgia embedded within memory such that when you encounter one of them you are transported back to the last moment you saw them and are reminded of whoever you might have shared it with.

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