This exhibition has been created during Georgia Arnolds residency at Driving Creek, Coromandel that was split over two, two-week sessions between May and August this year.
Making work like a brainstorming map, Arnolds process is intuitive and develops naturally which for this body of work has seen her produce clay creatures, chunky drawings and ceramic bowls thrown on a wheel. These separate strands of exploration are all modes of processing experiences during her time at Driving Creek.
A key moment in her development was finding a pile of wooden diamonds, these shapes were off cuts from making round wheel bats. The relationship between the circle and diamond forms, and their respective values of use and decoration became ways to categorise the work she was making.
“The circle is the bat, the wheel, production pottery, items with a use value. The diamond is a discard, a decorative shape, a bit like magic - stars or a spark.
I add a rectangle to the list (mainly for the satisfaction of an acrostic poem for the letters ‘DCR’ the acronym for ‘Driving Creek Railway’, but also) to stand in for chunky drawings, tiles or the spaces between railway tracks, a piece of paper, the surface of the slab roller, a window.”
