Suki & Hugh Gallery is proud to present The Poetry of Things, a collaborative exhibition by two world-renowned, Australian glass artists, Kirstie Rea and Annette Blair. Though each has forged a distinct practice within the field of
contemporary glass, this exhibition marks their first formal collaboration.
The Poetry of Things is a reflection on the quiet beauty found in the everyday. Drawing inspiration from the domestic and utilitarian, Rea and Blair turn their attention to objects that are often overlooked such as peaches, tin cans, cloths, brushes, translating them into lustrous glass still life’s that are at once familiar and transformed. Through this process of
reimagining the ordinary, they ask us to reconsider our relationship with the things that surround us: those that hold memory.
Their collaboration underscores a shared sensitivity to process and place. Both artists have long explored how material and making can reflect the contours of personal experience. Rea through her evocative treatment of light, transparency, and memory, and Blair through her nuanced explorations of form, colour, and tactility. In The Poetry of Things, their
practices interweave to create an installation of quiet resonance, where glass becomes both subject and metaphor.
This exhibition invites viewers into a world of considered observation, a celebration of gathering, use, and care, and the enduring connection between people and the objects of their daily lives.
