Jan Guy
| Name | Jan Guy DipArt QCA, GradDipVisArts SCA, MVA SCA |
| Current Role(s) | Studio Chair, Ceramics Lecturer, Ceramics |
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Jan Guy is an artist and writer who graduated from Queensland College of Art and gained an MVA from Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney. Guy maintains a broad practice and interest in ceramics with a specific focus on sculptural and installed works. While her personal research is presently concerned with relationships between the haptic senses and virtual spaces, she has an on-going interest in feminist art practices and craft and design theory. Guy has been an advocate for the growth and continuation of Australian ceramic arts through extensive writing for national journals and major exhibitions in the field including Cerebration the catalogue essay for the 2000 Australian Ceramics Association exhibition and more recently the 2006 SOFA catalogue.
Guy has been the recipient of a National Craft Acquisition Award and her work is in the collection of the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory.
In 2009 Guy was a member of the organising committee for the 1st Australian Ceramics Triennale.
Solo Exhibitions
NoWhere NowHere (Erehwon), Horus & Deloris Contemporary Art Space, Pyrmont, 2007
Walking into Doors, Zitlip Gallery, Sydney, 1995
The Hearth, The Stool and All, Allen Street Gallery, SCA, University of Sydney, 1993
The Skin of the Milk, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney, 1993
Group Exhbitions
Claystation8, Horus & Delorus Contemporary Art Space, Pyrmont, 2006
SCArt, Ceramics Art Gallery, Paddington, Sydney, 2005
Diarama, Soapbox Gallery, Brisbane, 2002
Reading Room, Soapbox Gallery, Brisbane, 2000
Peel, Soapbox Gallery, Brisbane, 1999
Cargo, Soapbox Gallery, Brisbane, 1999
Homebrand, Casula Powerhouse, Liverpool, 1997
Miss Read in the Fortress, Kinesis Gallery, Sydney, 1996
Inflation, Zitlip Gallery, Sydney, 1996
Interlock, Artspace, Sydney, 1995
Why do Australian Barbecues go better with Teriyaki sauce?, Kinesis Gallery, Sydney, 1995
Towers, Tools, Tables and Other Tales, Zitlip Gallery, Sydney, 1995
Prima Materia, Craftspace, Centre for Contemporary Crafts, Sydney, 1993
Body Weather (Tess de Quincey), performances at The Gunnery and Performance Space, Sydney, 1990
Darwin Contemporary Sculpture, Northern Territory University, Darwin, 1989
Transformations, Irving Sculpture Gallery, Sydney, 1986
Key Publications
Tides of Hair, Lino, issue 18, 2007
Never Ever Been a Blue Calm Sea: Notes on the works of Helen Pynor (catalogue essay), Dianne Tanzer Gallery,Melbourne, 2007
Solids of Time: The ceramic works of William Lungas, Ceramics Art and Perception, No.67, March-May, 2007
Australian Contemporary Ceramics SOFA Chicago, USA (catalogue essay on work of Jenny Orchard), 2006
Breathing in the Shadows of Aporia (catalogue essay) Harrison Galleries, Paddington, Sydney, 2006
Breathing Shadows (catalogue essay), Linden Gallery, Centre for Contemporary Art, 2005
Not a Dying Art, Journal of Australian Ceramics, vol.42, no.2, 2003
How to Make a Silk Purse Out of a Sow’s Ear Material Deception exhibition, Object Gallery, 2001
A Time for Cerebration, Pottery in Australia, Spring, 2000
More Than a Banquet, Ceramics: Art and Perception, Spring, 2000
No Picnic: contemporary porcelain, Object, 2000
A Horse Is A Horse (Of Course, Of Course), Pottery in Australia, 1999
Breathing the Elements, Pottery in Australia, 1998
Homebrand (catalogue essay), Casula Powerhouse, 1997
A Bucket of Tears (catalogue essay), Glarespace, 1996
[[i||Miss Read in the Fortress] (catalogue essay), Kinesis Gallery, 1996
[[i||Inflation] (catalogue essay), Zitlip Gallery, 1996
Out of Context (catalogue essay), Craftspace, 1995
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