Please join us to celebrate Robyn Phelan’s PhD Examination Exhibition: Compressing Atmosphere: ceramic encounters between clay, body and site

This PhD identifies compression, the decisive touch and resulting mark of the artist’s body on clay, as a potent way to consider practice-led research. Compressive action is revealed as both a method of making and a conceptual lens through which to investigate material and site-driven affective outcomes. A creative condition of atmosphere under compression, is embraced as a way for a ceramic practice to perceive, synthesise and critique cultural, social and environmental events as embodied material experiences.

Opening celebration
Thursday 11 July
5pm–7pm

Viewing time
Thursday 11 July 1pm–5pm

@robynphelan
@rmitceramics

SITE EIGHT Gallery
Building 2, Level 2, Room 8, Bowen St (off La Trobe St), Melbourne
For lift access enter via Rodda Lane

Image: Robyn Phelan, The Weight of Waiting (detail), 2022, hand formed clay, terra sigillata, cobalt glaze, hand twined denim jeans, h. 360cm w. 90cm d. 90cm
Image courtesy of the artist