EXHIBITION AT THE MANLY ART GALLERY AND MUSEUM IN CONJUNCTION WITH
THE POTTERS’ SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA
january - february 2003
The exhibition provides an opportunity for ceramic object makers to rethink tableware design suitable for domestic or commercial use over the next 10 to 20 years. Following preferences for Asian food and modern cuisine, inroads have been made into the traditional European tableware setting, but still it remains in department stores and in cupboards: out of date, inefficient, but enduring. Social trends are towards smaller families and increases in single person households.This has led to changes in dining-in patterns. Product use is towards the multifunctional. Consumers are looking for identity items to serve their take-home, pre-prepared foods. With higher amounts of discretionary income, they are also looking for long life and quality in the products they choose selectively for their table: something that will last to the next generation.
The exhibition
offers an open brief: an opportunity to present genuine
prototypes of either a single specific-purpose object,
or one which is multifunctional, or a group of objects
which are interactive and multifunctional. It is also
a chance to explore more extreme possibilities, extravagant
designs, both playful and imaginative. You may choose
to work on the project independently or in collaboration
with a restaurateur in you neighbourhood.
Applications closed
30 May 2002Applications notified 30 June 2002
Exhibition dates Jan 24 - Feb 23, 2003
