ReFire Project is coming to Fireworks Gallery from 1-5 November!
You are welcome to join us for the ReFire Celebration
Saturday 4th November between 1 and 3pm.
Artists will be present!
***FireWorks Gallery is extending our opening hours to include Sunday 5th 12-4pm for this special project!***
Experience and celebrate Cherbourg's cultural diversity, visually captured as contemporary Indigenous ceramic art.
ReFire is an exciting initiative of the Ration Shed Museum, funded by Arts Queensland, to reginite ceramic art creation in Cherbourg, Queensland—30 years after the closure of the original Barambah pottery.
Based at the Ration Shed Museum’s Yidding Art Studio, ReFire brought together 11 local artists: Rocko Langton, Venus Rabbitt, Jennifer Hart, Johnny Cobbo, Victor Bond, Maurice Mickelo, Sarah Reynolds, Robert Collins, James Hopkins, Robyn Langton, and Kane Brunjes, with South Burnett potter-tutor Fay Stumm for a series of workshops.
The artists were given a simple directive: ‘be bold, be brave, do your own thing, and enjoy the work!’ The vibrancy, boldness, and individuality of the artworks produced during the workshops speaks for itself. The ReFire collection, in total, is a stunning array of over 250 pottery pieces (plates, bowls, dishes, and trays) that all express the artists’ unique styles and tell a wide range of stories.
Maurice Mickelo James Hopkins Rocko Langton
Echidna and ants Paint drift with intricate dot patternation Dancing Emus
Jennifer Hart Robyn Langton Kane Brunjes
Owl and spiral pattern Emu and eggs Botanical plate