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Toni Warburton, work in progress. Maquette beach comber vase

Sydney: lines of memory

18 July – 16 August 2025
Opening Night: 6 – 8pm Friday, 18 July
To be opened by: Grace Cochrane AM

Toni Warburton, work in progress. Maquette beach comber vase

Coming in December 2025 to Manly Art Gallery and Museum – Counterpoint: Jude Rae, Ruth Waller and Toni Warburton – an interplay of practices and processes.

My ceramic vases, narrative sculptures and cups arise from perceptual jolts into the tantalizing realm of the uncanny and the desire to sustain strangeness as a form of noticing. They are made in a curious reverie of dynamic assemblage, buoyed by the inventive form language of ceramic vessels, botanical, geological and architectural structures and my delight in the tactile, mimetic properties of clay and glazes. Toni Warburton February 2025

Image: Toni Warburton: VIEW [after a ‘two face’ costume by Thea Rowe]2018 ceramic w20cm x h30cm x d20cm-photo, Sue Blackburn, private collection.