Art Exhibition: Unpeel Weave Unravel Smooth

Unpeel Weave Unravel Smooth by Gina Rizakos explores intergenerational trauma and how art promotes resilience and healing. Using culturally-specific symbols of collective identity interwoven with personal items to process oral histories transmitted by survivors of horrific events. The silencing and ignoring of trauma can result in ‘weathering’ of future generations.

The work focusses on significant dates in Greek history and includes elements of Australian nature. Free-form clay platters are imprinted with the Greek Key; left unglazed, their surface open to possibilities, suspended by hand-spun Australian wool. Catharsis, healing, nature.

Gina Rizakos has been exploring pottery since discovering the pottery wheel at a TAFE evening college decades ago. Gina holds a BA majoring in Fine Arts, Modern Greek and Social Anthropology/Aboriginal Studies, Master of Arts, Dip. Ed. and a Dip. Social Sciences from the University of Sydney and has been teaching Modern Greek at CCE, Sydney University for over twenty years.