An exhibition showcasing contemporary ceramic works crafted from Tamborine Mountain’s native clays, and curated by Scenic Rim artist and researcher Larissa Warren, has secured major funding for an interstate tour.
Scenic Rim Regional Council is partnering with Museums and Galleries Queensland to develop the tour of the Shifting Ground exhibition which will be staged at 12 venues in Queensland, New South Wales, Tasmania and Western Australia having debuted this month at The Centre Beaudesert.
Shifting Ground builds on Larrisa’s popular 2020 project Wild Women, Wild Clay which told the stories of Tamborine Mountain’s female potters from 1940s to1980s and included her own ceramic artwork.
The success of Wild Women, Wild Clay inspired Larissa to share Tamborine Mountain clays with female artists she admired, leading to the creation of Shifting Ground which showcases ceramic works by 12 contemporary Australian artists alongside historical pieces from Tamborine Mountain’s
early female potters.
The tour was awarded funding of $312,474 through the Australian Government’s Visions of Australia program, which supports the development and touring of quality exhibitions by Australian artists with a particular focus on regional and remote Australia.
Larissa said she was overjoyed Scenic Rim Regional Council and Museums and Galleries Queensland had secured the Visions of Australia funding which has enabled her to share the results of a project that began with an idea and became something much bigger.
“As a former Scenic Rim Regional Arts Development Fund grant recipient, I am also extremely grateful to Scenic Rim Regional Council for supporting me to bring this exhibition tour to fruition,” she said.
Larissa encourages historians, art and craft lovers, locals and students to view the exhibition which runs in Beaudesert until 11 October 2025 before beginning its interstate tour.
For more information on Shifting Ground and its national tour schedule, visit magsq.com.au/touring-exhibitions/
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government’s Visions of Australia program.
