THE Shard Sisters Group, a local artist collective, is staging “Held” – a ceramics exhibition created to ground viewers and encourage thoughtful reflection.
The exhibition runs at Nexus Community Gallery in Bellingen, from 1–26 March, with an opening event featuring the artists at 12pm on Sunday 1 March.
The pieces have been curated in a collection about the power of touch, connection and care.
Artists Jane Northway, Cath O’Gorman, Anne Reilly, Parma Keft and Gloria Malone, offer a quiet resistance to hurried living.
Collectively, they say the works are invitations to pause, to notice, to feel the weight and warmth of something made with intention.
“Each piece in ‘Held’ shows the unstable presence of the maker’s hand: curves shaped slowly, surfaces burnished through repetition, clay coaxed into forms that cradle space as much as they occupy it,” they shared.
“These are vessels and sculptures that carry stories – of landscapes, both harsh and generous, of materials drawn from the Earth, and of traditions passed gently between hands over generations.
“As the world grapples with environmental, social and emotional turbulence, the exhibition grounds us in the fundamental truth that care is an active sustaining force.
“Clay in its malleability and resilience becomes a metaphor for our own capacity to adapt, support and endure.”
By Andrea FERRARI
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