14 May - 19 June 2011

Domestic Disturbance engages the traditional form of the ceramic table setting to ‘set an uncanny table’ for an unexpected experience. Form, appendage and surface elements come together in ways that reference domestic ware, but serve up a meal of warped, unusable forms and enclosed volumes, which fold back on themselves and push against the confines of their contained space.

The work is based, in part, on how my perceptions of self have been altered by a recent move back to the United States after sixteen years living in New Zealand. It is informed by the multitude of strange moments I have encountered, feeling like an immigrant in my own country. The territory triggers memory, yet is altogether unfamiliar. It also feeds on the dysfunctional domestic politics of the US, where very little makes sense in a system that has become bloated and misshapen. Extreme distortions have replaced what once at least passed for truth.

Caroline Earley

26 April 2011

Caroline Earley is currently Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Boise State University.  She was previous a lecturer in visual arts at the Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology (NMIT) from 2005 – 2010. 

Her practice is grounded in the vessel tradition and incorporates hand, wheel and industrial approaches.  She makes individual sculptural and functional pieces as well as installation works, which draw on her interests in science, politics and cultural issues.  He work emphasises and sometimes reverses, the relationship between form and function, appendage and surface.