Emma Davies at Pablo Fanque Gallery

Pablo Fanque presents: Brocade by Emma Davies

Exhibition from 3 - 21 June 2008

1 Oxford Street, Paddington, cnr South Dowling Street

Please join us for a drink with the artist from 6 - 8pm on Tuesday 3 June 2008

Emma Davies is a Melbourne based artist who works experimentally with industral polypropylene. She has confidently manipulated and brocaded this modern material in unconventional ways to realise the new works for her first solo exhibition in Sydney. Brocade illustrates the artist's love for woven forms combined with organic shapes and textures inspired by mother nature.

Davies has exhibited around the country with some of her woven vessels featured in Object Galleries' Woven Forms: Contemporary basket making in Australia. Earlier this year her work became part of the Australian Vessels & Objects exhibition held in Amsterdam’s prestigious Galerie Ra and she has completed several commissions here and overseas, most recently in Tokyo.

The artist participated in The South Project in Johannesburg last year where she worked alongside artists from countries across the Southern Hemisphere, and she is working on a project with traditional weavers located in Western Arnhem Land Australia in the Northern Territory.

‘Emma Davies guides us through this virtual age. Her objects re-awaken the ghosts of stoneware and glass. …the appeal of Davies’ objects is their openness. They have an almost Platonic simplicity as though representing metaphysical shapes”, Kevin Murray, Director, Craft Victoria. Davies' Orange Flower vessel is to be exhibited in Sydney's Opera House from May 14, 2008.

Phone: 02 9357 4887 Email: gallery@pablofanque.com.au Gallery Hours: Tuesday & Wednesday 11-6, Thursday 11-7, Friday 11-5 and Saturday 10-5