Alison Frith was the recipient of the Sofitel / Craft FRESH! Emerging Craft Practitioners Award in 2016.  The award includes the opportunity for the winning artist to exhibit new work at Sofitel Melbourne On Collins in the following year.

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The works in this exhibition continue Frith's investigation of surface, exploring the relationship between unconventional finishes and contained forms.  Volatile crater glazes are countered with smooth satin finishes, creating a dialogue between the controlled and organic.  Frith portrays and idiosyncratic landscape of extremes, utilising a horizon of contrasting glaze lines. With each panel subject to unpredictability in the firing, Topography alludes to a seemingly alive surface. When making, Frith’s technical approach is both balanced and driven by these chance outcomes. 

 

Alison Frith is a ceramic artist living and working in Melbourne.  She adopts unconventional surfaces to create a narrative between the organic and refined.  With a strong focus on technique, Frith employs crater glazes to interrupt honed forms and clean lines. Highlighting the materiality of clay, Frith creates a dialogue between form and surface and the various ways this reads to the viewer.

 

Frith was the recipient of the Trudie Alfred Bequest (2015) and was a finalist in the McClelland Gallery Mary & Lou Senini Award (2015).

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