26 Jan -12 Feb 1995

CLEAR?

Mehmet Adil, Craige Andrae, Peter Tysoe, Kerry Williams

"Clear?" was as an exhibition, presented in association with Ausglass (Australian Association of Glass Artists), in which four artists made works that investigated ideas or concepts of transparency. Within this shared brief, there was obviously a diversity of approach, attitude and intention - differences that also served to articulate issues in the current debate between an exploratory materials-based 'craft' practice and a sculptural/conceptual 'art' practice. With shared materials the audience were able to see whether there were different terms of reference, or indeed commonalities expressed in the works of Peter Tysoe and Kerry Williams, from a studio-based glass background, and Craige Andrae and Mehmet Adil, both of whom have worked widely, but not exclusively with glass in their individual practices. Tysoe exhibited abstracted forms referring to waters and grasses in the natural world, Williams cast apples on lightboxes looking at the iconography of the Fall story from a feminist perspective; Andrae a series of multi-shaped glass boxes placed on the floor referencing both modernist town planning, minimalism, and suprematism; and Adil effected a large drawing on sheets of glass through the ignition of lines of gunpowder.