The Art of Dining
National Gallery of Victoria
A play on excess and a quiet rejection of structure, The Art of Dining installation references the lavish dinner parties of aristocracy through stacks of plain white crockery, stripped of markings and distinctions of class. Broken pieces are repaired through kintsugi, their cracks filled with gold. A collaboration with Robert Gordon and James Richardson, the work celebrates the Australian handmade and argues, quietly, for the table as a place where care and craft remain essentia