Jan Guy

Research

Jan Guy is an artist and writer who graduated from the Queensland College of Art and gained an MVA at the University of Sydney. She 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. She 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. She 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. She is presently a member of the organising committee for the First Australian Ceramics Triennial to be held in Sydney 2009.

Solo Exhibitions

2007
NoWhere NowHere (Erehwon), Horus & Deloris Contemporary Art Space, Sydney.
1995
Walking into Doors, Zitlip gallery, Sydney.
1993
The Hearth, The Stool and All, Allen Street gallery, SCA, University of Sydney.
The Skin of the Milk, The Tin Sheds gallery, Sydney.

Group Exhbitions

2006
Claystation8 Horus & Delorus Contemporary Art Space, Pyrmont, Sydney,
2005
SCArt Ceramics Art Gallery, Paddington, Sydney.
2002
Diarama Soapbox Gallery, Brisbane.
2000
Reading Room Soapbox Gallery, Brisbane.
1999
Peel Soapbox Gallery, Brisbane.
Cargo Soapbox Gallery, Brisbane.
1997
Homebrand Casula Powerhouse, Liverpool.
1996
Miss Read in the Fortress, Kinesis gallery, Sydney.
Inflation, Zitlip gallery, Sydney.
1995
Interlock, Artspace, Sydney.
Why do Australian Barbecues go better with Teriyaki sauce? Kinesis gallery, Sydney.
Towers, Tools, Tables and Other Tales, Zitlip gallery, Sydney.
1993
Prima Materia, Craftspace, Centre for Contemporary Crafts, Sydney.
1990
Body Weather (Tess de Quincey) performances at The Gunnery and Performance Space.
1989
Darwin Contemporary Sculpture Northern Territory University, Darwin.
1986
Transformations, Irving Sculpture gallery, Sydney.

Key Publications

2007
Tides of Hair, Lino, issue 18.
Never Ever Been a Blue Calm Sea: Notes on the works of Helen Pynor (catalogue essay), Dianne Tanzer Gallery,Melbourne.
Solids of Time: The ceramic works of William Lungas, Ceramics Art and Perception, No.67, March.- May, 2007.
2006
Australian Contemporary Ceramics SOFA Chicago, USA (catalogue essay on work of Jenny Orchard)
Breathing in the Shadows of Aporia (catalogue essay) Harrison Galleries, Paddington, Sydney.
2005
Breathing Shadows (catalogue essay), Linden Gallery, Centre for Contemporary Art.
2003
Not a Dying Art, Journal of Australian Ceramics, Vol.42, No.2.
2001
How to Make a Silk Purse Out of a Sow’s Ear Material Deception exhibition, Object Gallery.
2000
A Time for Cerebration, Pottery in Australia, Spring.
More Than a Banquet, Ceramics: Art and Perception, Spring.
No Picnic: contemporary porcelain, Object.
1999
A Horse Is A Horse (Of Course, Of Course), Pottery in Australia.
1998
Breathing the Elements, Pottery in Australia.
1997
Homebrand(catalogue essay),Casula Powerhouse.
1996
A Bucket of Tears(catalogue essay), Glarespace.
Miss Read in the Fortress(catalogue essay), Kinesis gallery.
Inflation(catalogue essay), Zitlip gallery.
1995
Out of Context(catalogue essay), Craftspace.