After leaving the TV on late one night, I was flicking channels and stumbled across a documentary on Melbourne artist Penny Byrne. Exhibiting at Sullivan +Strumpf Fine Art in Sydney, the show followed how this ceramic conservator takes kitsch ceramic objects and turns them into political pieces. I fell in love immediately.
'Byrne takes this genteel art form and flings it into the brutality of current affairs and international politics. A practicing conservator, Penny Byrne restores the ceramics and glass of the nation's top museums, but outside this employment she reworks vintage porcelain figurines and statues with pronouncements on politics and popular culture' (Taken from "Upfront", The Art Oracle by Michael Reid)
Diamante Doggie 2010
Gitmo Bay Souvenirs (group) 2010
Hiroshi and his friends are having a whale of a time
Life is a riot for Betty and Phil 2011
-charli
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