Jacob Ogden Smith's archetypal pottery forms, such as Ancient Greek amphorae, Chinese celadon and Japanese tea bowls, will sit alongside a series of videos that depict actions associated with pottery production.
Jacob Ogden Smith is a Perth-based artist whose practice explores the representation of pottery within contemporary mediums such as film, television and the Internet. Smith's videos in Pottery Practice Project are intended to integrate ceramic practice into the medium of television – a medium that has an ability to impart significance through representation. The work interrogates understandings of television's mastery of quality and popular entertainment, as if somehow if it's on television it must be 'good'. This idea is best represented in the work Pottery Stills, a collection of images taken from film and television, which depict popularised examples of pottery and pottery practice.
Photography: Lily Feng
