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A VESSEL AND A FIELD
Clare Logan and Grace Uivel

 

31 January – 23 February 2025

Opening Event: Sunday 2 January

A Vessel and a Field explores the convergence of Clare Logan and Grace Uivel’s artistic practices through a collaborative pairing of ceramics and oil paintings. Contemplating themes of the body, materiality and earthly connection, this marks their first joint exhibition, built on a shared friendship and mutual engagement with ideas of process, materials and experimentation. Clare presents a series of paintings, while Grace showcase vessels; their collaborative process emphasising the interplay of form, colour, and texture, creating harmonious contrasts between celestial light and darkness. Their work is deeply informed by their connection to the natural environment, their proximity to Whakaraupō, and their use of locally sourced materials, reflecting a sensitivity to place. Hosted at Stoddart Cottage, the exhibition continues the gallery’s legacy of supporting work that engages with the environment and women’s arts practice.

For Lyttelton/Ōhinehou based artist Clare Logan, painting is a method of exploring boundaries and thresholds between the material and psychic realms. Evoking receding glaciers, watery inundations, and jutting masses, her work considers the ways in which our inner worlds overlay embodied experience, with that which is dreamt, felt or imagined. She uses oil paint and other media experimentally, staging disruptions, flows and interactions that echo those of geomorphological processes, pushing and pulling the potential of paint to create spaces reminiscent of strange dreams. She is represented by Ōtautahi gallery City Art Depot.

Grace Uivel is a potter working in Ōhinehou from her studio and shop Ata Ceramics. She pairs a backbone of craftsmanship as a potter with an experimental approach to materials and form. Her vessels; an energetic moment in time captured in the plasticity of clay, moving, spiraling and at times dancing with each other.  Working with found and foraged ash, stone, silt and clays Grace’s practice involves attuning with her material’s innate qualities whether it be a particular wood ash or granite dust, creating raw and volatile surfaces. Her work speaks of geological time and yielding to materiality.

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