Pippin Drysdale
Tanami Mapping

until 9 April

Over the last quarter of a century distinguished cermacist Pippin Drysdale has been refining her scupltural forms, her materials and her colour palette to create a unique body of work that explores the Australian landscape. Drysdale's exhibition Tanami Mapping features nearly 100 vessels and closed forms that evoke the topography of anthills, mountain ranges, tumbling tracts of spinifex and rocky protuberances that spring from the red soil of the Australian desert.

Once Drysdale has absorbed the character of a site, she carries it colours, patterns and ambience back to the studio, where she patiently re-creates their glow and echo in the delicate web of glazes etched and brushed onto the surfaces of her elegantly shaped forms. In 2007 Drysdale was recognised as one of ten Masters of Australian Craft. Her art has been exhibited extensively internationally, through 40 solo and more than 300 invitational and group exhibitions. Following this exhibition in Washington DC, Pippin Drysdale’s work will be presented at SOFA, New York and at the Booker-Lowe Gallery in Houston.