special exhibition

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Porcelain by Pippin Drysdale and Art Jewellery by von Helen Britton.
Although the work of the two Australians may be from different genres, the vessel art of Pippin Drysdale (photo left) and the jewellery of Helen Britton do have a shared theme: the memory of the beauty of things large and small. The latest exhibition at the Marianne Heller Gallery presents the two artists together for the first time, from 22 February to 29 March. The severe, tall, flawlessly thrown porcelain forms by Pippin Drysdayle (*1943) positively buzz with intense colour. Like all-round souvenir images, these floating vessels suggest warmth, deep colour, space of the bare, sun-scorched landscape of Australia with their multi-layered, sprayed-on individual glazes, in strong yellow, orange and red tones with closely drawn dark lines. In contrast, the winner of several prizes and someone considered to be in the avant-garde of art jewellery, Helen Britton (*1966) uses disparate materials in her unusual jewellery. She gives small found objects in precious or non-precious materials – diamonds or plastic objects – a new frame in silver, giving pieces that had fallen from their original context a surprising or even bizarre setting. In this way, she creates miniature sculptures, collages of the effervescent, colourful beauty of strangely humoristic flowers.