'Tell me about it' sculptural work composed of bodily ceramic forms and opaque dark disk of glass by Katie Ryan.

Tell me about it, as part of 'Objective Memory', a group exhibition featuring works by Ashley Perry, Olga Bennett, Hannah Gartside and Katie Ryan.

Kings Artist-Run Initiative, Melbourne September 2017.

Objective Memory


“What I find most striking about memory is not that it recounts the past – but that it feeds the present.”[1]

                            -Paul Valery


Memory facilitates a reciprocal relationship between past and present, in which they are constantly contaminating one another. Our relation to our memories of the past is always impacted by the present moment and our perception of the present moment is always shaped by the past.


Objective Memory will create a dialogue between the works of a group of artists who share a common interest in the ability of objects to act as vessels for personal or collective memories and histories. The works will investigate both institutional and personal methods of recording and recounting past events. In placing the personal alongside the museological Objective Memory seeks to break down the hierarchy between what is perceived as historical fact and subjective experience.



[1] Valery in B. Cassiman and G. Ramael and J. Van Bellingen, ed., The Sublime Void: On the Memory of the Imagination (Antwerp: Antwerpen, 1993), 122.

Close up of white ceramic form reminiscent of an ear on top of a black glass disk, a sculpture by contemporary artist Katie Ryan.

Tell me about it, 2017 (detail)

Ceramics, glass, window tint

Installation shot of 'Tell me about it' by Katie Ryan as part of group exhibition 'Objective Memory' at Kings Artist Run, Melbourne.

Tell me about it, 2017

Ceramics, glass, window tint

Also pictured: Small Money Quilt, 2017 by Hannah Gartside and Untitled, 2017 by Olga Bennett

White bodily ceramic form sitting on top of glass disk with faint reflection surrounding it, by contemporary artist Katie Ryan

Tell me about it, 2017 (detail)

Ceramics, glass, window tint

Two organic ceramic forms stacked on top of one another, separated by a large opaque  black glass disk, a sculptural work by Katie Ryan.

Tell me about it, 2017

Ceramics, glass, window tint

Two bodily ceramic forms separated by a large black glass disk which reflects the view from the windows of Kings Artist-Run Gallery, Melbourne.

Tell me about it, 2017

Ceramics, glass, window tint

Two organic ceramic forms stacked on top of one another, separated by a large opaque  black glass disk, a sculptural work by Katie Ryan.

Tell me about it, 2017

Ceramics, glass, window tint

Installation shot of 'Objective Memory' exhibition at Kings Artist-Run Initiative, featuring works by Olga Bennett, Hannah Gartside, Ashley Perry and Katie Ryan.

Objective Memory, 2017

pictured works by Olga Bennett, Hannah Gartside and Katie Ryan

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