Renee So, Unknown Woman, 2019. Glazed stoneware, 56 x 82 x 53cm. Courtesy: the artist, Kate MacGarry, London, and Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne.

Renee So: Provenance is the first major survey exhibition of the London-based artist Renee So’s work in Australia.  Curated by MUMA Director Charlotte Day, this survey exhibition brings together more than a decade of art-making alongside new work.

So is renowned for her ceramic and textile works and the playful approach to form and history.  These idiosyncratic ceramic and textile works are inspired by art history, museum collections and popular forms of gendered symbolism, while embracing traditional crafts, cross-cultural thinking, underlying sense of the comedic and a feminist worldview.

She is an observer of objects and the stories that accrue to them over time.  While So’s early work used motifs of bearded men, full bellies and boots to explore popular archetypes and representations of authority, she has increasingly looked to representations of feminine forms, drawing on artistic precedents from prehistoric to modern times.

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