Helen Fuller publication launch and panel discussion
Join us for the launch of the Helen Fuller monograph and a panel discussion with Helen Fuller, Erica Green, Director Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, and Vanessa Van Ooyen, Director, QUT Galleries & Museums. This event coincides with the new exhibition, Helen Fuller: Bowerbird.
Tarntanya/Adelaide artist Helen Fuller is curious, inventive and willing to follow her compulsion to make, whatever the material. Over a long career, she has established a multidisciplinary practice encompassing a rich variety of painting, sculpture, installation and, in recent years, ceramics.
Driven by intuition and materiality, she approaches ceramics in a manner she likens to painting, concerned with the characteristics of form rather than the function of the vessel. Unfailingly experimental, she describes her instinct as 'off-road'.
Her art is influenced by her travels in Australia, Europe, Asia, Scandinavia, and the United Kingdom, but is also intensely personal to her own family history and life.
In Helen Fuller, the first major publication devoted entirely to Fuller’s work, the authors explore aspects of her fifty years of practice and a life of art.
Image credit: Helen FULLER, 'Untitled 1–3' 2022 (detail), terracotta with porcelain slip. QUT Art Collection. Donated by Helen Fuller, 2023.
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