Full Circle
Presented by the Tasmanian Ceramics Association
Exhibition Dates :
Thursday 5 – Monday 23 June 2025
10:00am – 4:00pm daily
The Tasmanian Ceramics Associations‘s Full Circle exhibition is an opportunity for members to showcase their personal growth in the context of their ceramic practices. Every artwork exhibited begins as a piece of clay. Ceramics is an craft which was borne out of necessity has now become the sophisticated artform we see today.
Current members of the Tasmanian Ceramics Association (TCA) specialise in a range of ceramics processes which create a diverse range of artworks. While ceramics may be considered as a purely functional form of art, there is a wide array of artists that practice the sculptural forms of ceramics.
Sculptural ceramics incorporates the fundamental building and finishing techniques that are the basis of all ceramics – turning clay into its ceramic form by firing with heat. Although this is a process that has been used for thousands of years, today’s ceramicists have made numerous advances in each stage of the process with the help of modern technology.
TCA members are continually experimenting with different forms of glazing and firing methods to create their unique works. The Full Circle exhibition explores the varied range of ceramics that can be created and produced using combinations of these age-old techniques to produce evocative modern day, three-dimensional works of art that are being created by Tasmanian ceramicists.
The Full Circle exhibition draws inspiration from all forms of ceramics which have now developed into an aesthetic sculptural forms of art – sometimes using practices that have come full circle with its ancient beginnings.
