NGV x Alexander McQueen
Commission for the National Gallery of Victoria. A capsule collection of Flame Vases was created for the Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse exhibition showing December 11th 2022 - April 16th 2023.
The collection was available for the duration of the exhibition.
Shiro Oni Residency
Six week artist residency, Gunma, Japan, October-November 2022
Six weeks was spent in the Japanese countryside creating work using local clays and firing in an anagama wood fired kiln in the mountains of Gunma prefecture. Exhibition coming October 2024.
Reclaim
Clay Connected Group Exhibition October 2022, Brunswick Street Gallery
Urn, reclaimed stoneware, glaze, lustre 2022
Reclaim is the term for recycled clay, it also means to recover something lost, which for the artists represents finding inspiration and strength after the COVID-19 lockdowns. Reclaim celebrates the next phase in the Clay Connected collective using the recycled clay made of the dissolved pieces from the group’s debut exhibition in March for Melbourne Design Week 2022.
Concurrence
Group Exhibition, October 2022, Warrandyte Pottery Studio and Gallery
Concurrence consists of six female identifying ceramic artists coming together to inquire into what informs their practice as a community of women in the contemporary world of ceramics. each artist came together to fire their work in a communal pit firing on the grounds of the original Potter’s Cottage. All wood used for the firing was recycled from untreated pallets and all omissions created by the firing will be offset by planting native trees around the area. This exhibition is part of Craft Victoria's Craft Contemporary Festival 2022.
Clay Connected
Group Exhibition Melbourne Design Week 2022
This piece was made for the Clay Connected group exhibition held at 1280 Studio in Melbourne for Melbourne Design Week 18th March - 27th March.
Each artist was asked to create an object of their interpretation of connection. Each piece was showcased unfired in its raw form to represent vulnerability and a sense of fragility during the past two years of the pandemic. The pieces will be submerged in water at the end of the exhibition and reclaimed into useable clay to be redistributed between the artists.
More information on the exhibition here.
Untitled 2022, unfired stoneware, Emily Brookfield. Image Credit: Kevin Li
VicHealth Promotion Awards 2022
Emily was commissioned by VicHealth to create 8 ceramic awards for the 2022 VicHealth Promotion Awards.
Read more about the awards here.
Subscribe To My Mailing List 2022
This piece was shown as part of the 2022 Brunswick Street Gallery Small Works Show in January.
Subscribe To My Mailing List, affectionately named ‘Ugly’ was made for Brunswick Street Gallery’s annual Small Works Art Prize and is a comment on the way in which the line between artist and content creator is often blurred. The added pressure social media places on the artist to be constantly creating something new. This piece is an exploration into materials through intuitive making wherein the finished work is the result of a cathartic process of transmuting raw emotions into physical expression.
Thrown and altered stoneware, glaze, gold lustre.
Subscribe To My Mailing List (Ugly), Emily Brookfield. Image credit: Brunswick Street Gallery
Keepsake 2020
12 one-of-a-kind pieces showcased in the Saint Cloche Gallery end of year group show ‘Nautilus’, December 2020. I spoke about the process of making these pieces with Craft Victoria through their Virtual Open Studios program in October 2021.
In Conversation 2019
In Conversation is Emily Brookfield’s first solo exhibition. Held at Brunswick Street Gallery November 2019, the collection comprises of 29 unique and one of a kind stoneware vessels.
Studio Bright, Richmond House 2020 image credit: Rory Gardiner
