Honor Freeman & Rita Kellaway

Sabbia presents two fantastic solo exhibitions by established artist Honor Freeman and Ausglass Exhibition Award recipient Rita Kellaway.

Honor is renowned for her agility with clay, using the mimetic qualities of slip casting to create recognisable objects that reference the everyday and mundane moments of life. Soaps, sponges, handkerchiefs, Tupperware and discarded chewing gum have formed several series of works where Honor has explored the close human contact these objects have in our everyday use. What is often something that is discarded is cast into a clay permanence with an acknowledgment of the human contact we have had with that everyday item.

Rita was awarded the Sabbia Gallery Ausglass Exhibition Award in 2023 and she presents a new body of work that further explores ideas about erosion, dust, wear and earth formations through her glass practice. Using innovative kiln-firing and casting techniques, Rita purposefully experiments with molten glass flow and colour reactions occurring at high temperatures and cold-working processes applied when the glass has cooled to create references to natural geographical formations.

Exhibition: Wednesday 2 October to Saturday 26 October, Tuesday to Friday 11am to 6pm, Saturday 11am to 4pm

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Images top (l-r): Rita Kellaway, Abscondita Stratis lll, 2024 Photo: Sabbia Gallery; Honor Freeman, Fade (Small acts of Care and repair) 2024 Photo: Grant Hancock