19 April – 9 June 2024 Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Sydney

We are excited to introduce a groundbreaking collaboration featuring chefs Nate Quinell, who is deaf-blind, and Craig Shanahan, who is blind, with deaf designer Kirsty Collins. This innovative project highlights braille and low-vision hyper-legible tactile language, creating a unique dining experience that is both inclusive and functional.

Designed and made with, and by, disabled people – not for them

6 February – 16 March 2024

Australian Design Centre, 01—115 William Street, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010

See three sculptures from my Loud Materials series at the Sydney Ceramic Market on the 7th October 10am to 5pm at Carriageworks, Bay 25
245 Wilson St, Eveleigh NSW 2015

Opening night
Friday 23rd June 6 – 9 pm
23rd June – 8th July 2023

5 Comber St Paddington NSW 2021

• ADRIENNE RICHARDS
• CAROL HUDSON
• ELAINE KIM
• GEORGIA HARVEY
• JAN DOWNES
• JOSEPH TURRIN
• KATE ROBINSON
• KIRSTY COLLINS
• KELLY BROWN
• KRISTIN RADGE
• RINA BERNABEI
• SHIYA LU
• TIKA ROBINSON

AR & Technology by HunLAB

Creative Direction by Shiya Lu

Curated by Elaine Kim

Opening night
Tuesday 29th March 5 – 8 pm
29th March – 2nd April

5 Comber St Paddington NSW 2021

• JOSEPH TURRIN
• TIKA ROBINSON
• SAVANNA HOPKINSON
• HARRY COPAS
• ANNIE AREUM SHIN
• KIRSTY COLLINS
• ELIZABETH LEWIS
• REMY FAINT
• ELLA TINDAL
• BRIDGITTE PODRASKY

Curated by Elaine Kim

This was a great exhibition that included ceramics and other types of art, from all over Australia, with five of my ceramic sculptures.

Movers and Shapers II – Women | Land | Sculpture.
At the Broadhurst Gallery @hazelhurstartscentre Launched via Insta Live event
The responses to Land is something out of the ordinary.

Biophilia

Saturday 15th – Tuesday 25th May 2021
Broadhurst Gallery, Hazelhurst Arts Centre
782 Kingsway, Gymea NSW

An exhibition of four graduating Advanced Diploma Students.
This essential relationship with nature is explored through the lens of each artist’s aesthetic sensibilities. The versatility and chemical properties of clay allow each artist a personal and unique perspective on this theme.

A Fresh Perspective, exhibition 2021 at Kerrie Lowe Gallery, Newtown, April to May, Sydney. A group show of select recent ceramic graduates of six Sydney colleges. It Included National Art School, UNSW, Sydney College of the Arts, Gymea TAFE and Hornsby TAFE, Northern Beaches TAFE.

Manic Fugue#1 and Manic Fugue#2
Shortlisted for the 2020 Klytie Pate Award (carried over to 2021).

The Klytie Pate Award for Ceramics is a national prize open to all ceramicists in Australia and offers substantial cash prizes.

The award attracts both notable artists from around the country as well as emerging ceramicists.

The Klytie Pate Awards and concurrent exhibition celebrate their namesake – Klytie Pate OAM – who, over her 50 year career became known as one of Australia’s most prolific and innovative potters.

https://artsmansfield.com.au/event/the-klytie-pate-2020-ceramics-exhibition/

A popup outdoor, COVID safe, exhibition of contemporary ceramic sculpture and functional ware by seven artists: Kirsty Collins, Vanessa Leung, Michelle Bulloch, Jennifer Hartley, Vanessa Sim, Emily Wynn and Rong Li. Part of Sydney Craft Week, an initiative of Australian Design Centre, 2020.

Hosted by the artist Kirsty Collins, a ceramicist making large tactile phantasmagorical landscapes of gestural mountains, clouds, smoke plumes and explosions, which are airbrushed and draped with experimental slips, terra-sigillata’s and sculptural glazes.

Received Award for Excellence

TAFE NSW Ceramics graduates exhibition November 2020 at Gymea TAFE. The official graduation exhibition for Advanced Diploma students is postponed until May 2021 at Hazelhurst Art Centre.

Ceramic sculptures were finalists in the:

Manic fugue #1 Finalist in Contemporary category

Manic fugue #2 Finalist in Open category

The exhibition is uploaded and available to view as an interactive virtual tour (VR). In the launch week, it was viewed by 70,000 people.