This multi-artist debut exhibition brings together three different generations and three distinct voices, delivering poetry, retro-futurism and nostalgia using clay, metal and paint.

Perfectly Imperfect by Connie Berg
Connie doesn’t ever claim to have written a poem, and if you asked, she would say she is definitely not a poet.
‘It just seems like some moments are best expressed in poetic form, words that have come to me of their own volition, and if I’m lucky, I am able to write them down while they linger in my mind.’

Blending her career in the written word with her love of clay, she has hand-printed 23 poems on hand-built cylinders. She also recorded her poems which will be broadcast along with video onto the walls of the Gallery. More than just some fancy words on a few pots, they are a collection of memories of an imperfect life, captured on slightly skewed, fingerprint-imprinted pots, each one Perfectly Imperfect.

Meccano: Memories and Symbols by Connie Berg
Playful nostalgia has turned into grown-up play. Connie’s memories of building stuff with metal construction toys have been given new life. Blending ceramic elements from her pottery practice with real life memories and meaningful symbols, she has found a Venn intersection of organic clay and the mechanics of Meccano.

As an emerging ceramic artist, Connie Berg is inspired by nature and science and strives to incorporate elements of both into the organic medium of clay. She draws on the decades of experience from her many mentors, embracing their teachings, to which she adds her own artistic vision, and then crafts original works.

Glazed and Confused by Kelly Rowe
Glazed and Confused engages blue and white ceramics as a site of memory, nostalgia, and contemporary reinterpretation. Drawing on the long history of blue and white pottery, familiar decorative languages are used as a point of departure and reworked through current forms, humour, and material experimentation.

Operating between reverence and disruption, the works place traditional motifs alongside unexpected imagery and subtle visual shifts that challenge assumptions of refinement, function, and value. Functioning as vessels in both physical and conceptual terms, the objects reference domestic spaces, inherited forms, and the fragmented nature of personal and collective memory, considering how historical traditions remain culturally resonant through continual recontextualisation.

As a ceramic and mixed media artist, Kelly Rowe draws on inspiration from personal experiences and nostalgic memories from her childhood. She’s influenced and encouraged by other ceramic artists and antique blue/white porcelain. Her work is characterised by its sense of fun, humour, and cheekiness, inviting viewers to experience a playful interaction.

Retrograde Fantasy: An Exhibition of Memory, Myth, and Alternate Futures by Cameron Hall
Retrograde Fantasy invites you into a dreamscape where the past warps into the present and collides with imagined futures and distorted realities. Through a series of intricate mixed media artworks, the exhibition explores a paradoxical world shaped by nostalgia, cosmic destinies and otherworldly evolution. This powerful display of retro-futurism, fantasy elements and glitch aesthetics, acts as recovered memories fragmented in poetic and electric emotions. Expect to encounter hand-drawn figures, surreal landscapes, digital constructs and mythical origins. “Retrograde Fantasy”, is a visual portal inviting you to explore the beauty and dissonance of unique worlds undiscovered.

Cameron Hall’s journey into multi-media visual art began with a deep fascination for video games, anime, and animated films. He was drawn to their elaborate colours, dynamic action sequences, and the immersive worlds of 3D platformers. This passion naturally evolved into sketching and capturing fragments of these visual experiences and transforming them into his own artistic vision.

Opening night proudly sponsored by Zonte’s Footstep.