I have taken the description of this show from the MOA email invitation. The opening reception and lectures were last Friday and Saturday but there is plenty of time to see the elegant ‘introductions’ Gwyn Hanssen Pigott has made. I enjoyed her lecture, taking photos (in rather low museum light) and a great chance to catch up with the local ceramic community. Below the invitation you will see that I have posted a series of photos from my visit.

Pleased to Meet You: Introductions by Gwyn Hanssen Pigott

November 3, 2012 – March 31, 2013

In her own celebrated work, Australian ceramic artist Gwyn Hanssen Pigott nudges pale-glazed tableware forms into still-life groupings of bowls, bottles and cups. Individually familiar, the juxtaposed forms speak to one another and to the observer with surprising emotion.

In this exhibition, Ms. Pigott has selected objects from the Museum’s permanent, world-wide collection and re-assembled them, with her own works, in surprising new relationships. The “introductions” have been made based on colour, form, and pattern, often featuring objects that are normally never displayed together.

Gwyn Hanssen Pigott is recognized as one of Australia’s most significant contemporary artists and has exhibited extensively in Australia, America, Europe and Asia. In 2002 she was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for service to the arts as a ceramic artist and teacher.

The exhibition is curated by Dr. Carol E. Mayer, Curator, Museum of Anthropology, and Susan Jefferies, former Curator of Modern and Contemporary Ceramics at the Gardiner Museum, Toronto.