The Space In Between


Curtin House, Melbourne
June 2024


Photographs: Tope Adesina

This recent body of sculptures explores how space is defined and how objects create connections within it. The work extends ideas from drawings and paintings into three-dimensional form, allowing line, colour, and shape to occupy physical space.

The show features a series of new ‘Box Drawings’. This series translates the spatial experience of the ceramic sculptures back into drawing, while retaining the immediacy and materiality of paper, wax pastel, and watercolour. The work invites viewers to move around it, experiencing marks, colour, and composition from multiple angles, creating opportunities to hide and reveal details in ways not possible with a flat work on the wall.






Arrangement 1, 2024, 32x34x12cm, Glazed earthenware





Arrangement 1, 2024, 32x34x12cm, Glazed earthenware





Arrangement 1 (detail),
2024, 32x34x12cm, Glazed earthenware






The Space In Between
, Curtin House, Melbourne, 2024




Traverse, 
2024, 28x30x19cm, Glazed earthenware





The Space In Between,
Curtin House, Melbourne, 2024




The Space In Between, Curtin House, Melbourne, 2024




Tangle/Untangle, 2024, 24x31x14cm, Glazed earthenware




The Space In Between, Curtin House, Melbourne, 2024




Box Drawing 1 (Hydra), 2024, 45x44x16cm, Cardboard, paper, wax pastel, pins, glue, tape, balsa wood




Box Drawing 1 (Hydra), 2024, 45x44x16cm, Cardboard, paper, wax pastel, pins, glue, tape, balsa wood





Box Drawing 4 (Up & down, In & out), 2024, 49x44x15cm, Cardboard, paper, wax pastel, pins, glue, tape, balsa wood




Box Drawing 4 (Up & down, In & out), 2024, 49x44x15cm, Cardboard, paper, wax pastel, pins, glue, tape, balsa wood




Box Drawing 3, 
2024, 46x43x20cm, Cardboard, paper, wax pastel, pins, glue, tape, balsa wood





Box Drawing 3, 2024, 46x43x20cm, Cardboard, paper, wax pastel, pins, glue, tape, balsa wood





Box Drawing 4,
2024, 46x45x12cm Cardboard, paper, wax pastel, pins, glue, tape, balsa wood





Box Drawing 4, 2024, 46x45x12cm Cardboard, paper, wax pastel, pins, glue, tape, balsa wood




The Space In Between, Curtin House, Melbourne, 2024




The Space In Between,
Curtin House, Melbourne, 2024




Box Drawing 4 (Up & down, In & out) (detail), 2024, 49x44x15cm, Cardboard, paper, wax pastel, pins, glue, tape, balsa wood




In Between, 2024, 29x29x15cm, Glazed earthenware





In Between (detail), 2024, 29x29x15cm, Glazed earthenware





The Space In Between, Curtin House, Melbourne, 2024





The Space In Between, Curtin House, Melbourne, 2024