Selected ceramic work by Ellis Moseley, 2023. Courtesy: the artist and Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide.

Heist presents an experimental and conceptual project that features exquisitely formed ceramic vessels and wall pieces. Whilst valuing the important aesthetic considerations of the object, this exhibition is part of Ellis Moseley’s ongoing research to test the limits of what an artwork can be.

Moseley’s assigns individual consciousnesses to the vessels in the gallery. The vessels themselves are not considered by the artist to be the work, but simply an anchor for the artwork, a physical object that accompanies the metaphysical artwork. Functioning much in the same way a church or temple does as a physical place for the consideration of metaphysical (non-physical) things.

Heist invites the viewer to examine what it is exactly he is claiming, through examining the nature of their own consciousness/inner awareness and perhaps that of the person standing next to them in the gallery.

Opening Event: Thursday 20 April, 6 – 8pm.

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