WETLANDS • TIMNA TAYLOR
WETLANDS • TIMNA TAYLOR
26-27 NOV 2021 • NATIVE DROPS
W E T L A N D S
an exhibition of ceramics by
Timna Taylor
It is with sheer DELIGHT we present our latest collaboration as part of an ongoing, offsite exhibition program we call DEApartment.
Wetlands is an exhibition of over 200 works by Timna Taylor, showing at the delightful upstairs gallery room at Native Drops Artisan Cellar, Surry Hills.
In respect to the precious landscape that inspired these works, we are donating 10% of the profits from this exhibition to Bush Heritage Australia.
Welcome to WETLANDS
Take a journey with Timna Taylor through the Australian landscape, discovering watering holes, billabongs, springs, lakes and waterfalls in amongst the fragrant eucalypts, grasses, and rivers of deep northwestern NSW.
Timna Taylor’s history as a painter is evident in every vessel. Each piece speaks of Australian native flora and fauna, the colours of a beetle’s wing, the song of a Fairywren, the snap of a twig underfoot while you navigate pathways on your walk through the trees to the sea.
Take a magical moment to consider the beauty in each piece from the smallest of condiment dishes, beakers, mugs, bowls to her enormous and monumental hand built vases. Very much the potter’s potter, one can see why she has such a following with a style that is so refined yet so earthy at the same time.
About TIMNA TAYLOR
Timna is a highly collectible Australian ceramicist residing in Northern NSW.
Her journey as an artist started with painting, so it's no surprise that Timna brings a painterly eye to ceramics - her glazes layered and re-fired many times to build a lush and nuanced palette.
Her work draws inspiration from the Australian landscape - the subtle and complex interplay of light and shadow that filters through the bush that surrounds her is reflected in each lovingly constructed piece.
Soft like watercolour, like looking over a lake on a drizzly day, or bold and graphic like an abstract painting, Timna works in repeat patterns but no outcome is ever the same.
Her glazes hover and shimmer before the eye, like the chirruping of cicadas made real onto the surfaces of her vessels.
Her preferred medium is raku, and she has been influenced by Shoji Hamada, one of the three proponents of the Japanese Folk Art movement last century (along with Kawai Kanjiro and Bernard Leach).
Timna follows the belief that art can be held in the hands - that the quest for beauty is balancing to the soul. We certainly feel strong emotions gazing at Timna Taylor works. It’s not surprising she has such a strong and dedicated following.
Please join us and Timna for
W E T L A N D S
at the upstairs gallery room at
Native Drops Artisan Cellar, Surry Hills
Friday 26 November 6 - 8pm
Saturday 27 November 10 - 4pm
Native Drops Artisan Cellar
479 Crown Street Surry Hills
NSW AUSTRALIA
Drinks have been generously donated by the wonderful Grafted Wines.
10% of exhibition profits go to Bush Heritage Australia.
Flowers by Fleur de Flo.
This will be a COVID SAFE environment.
We respectfully request that guests provide proof of vaccination.
Native Drops is a new and unique liquor store that is all about celebrating local young and talented artisanal producers of wine, beer and spirits in Australia.
In Bondi Junction and Surry Hills.
Grafted Wines is a Sydney based wine importer, distributor and consultant.Focused primarily on quality farming, our portfolio aims to highlight the viticultural endeavours of our growers & producers with minimal intervention as the lens to showcase wines of both time & place.
https://www.graftedwines.com.au/
Bush Heritage Australia is an independent not-for-profit that buys and manages land, and works in partnerships with others, to conserve our magnificent landscapes and irreplaceable native species forever.