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JANNA VAN HASSELT – Flop on Pop – 18 March-11 April, 2025


In Janna van Hasselt’s exhibition Flop on Pop, her porcelain structures ooze with tactile exuberance.
New woven and flowing ceramic paintings glow from walls while more sculptural glazed forms slump on floating discs of colour.

'Jungle' by Janna van Hasselt, 2024-25, glazed earthenware and acrylic, 440 x 420 x 40mm 'Baffle' by Janna van Hasselt, 2024-25, glazed porcelain and acrylic, 450 x 425 x 40mm, $800'Wrinkle' by Janna van Hasselt, 2024-25, glazed porcelain and acrylic, 380 x 400 x 30mm, $800

'Wattle' by Janna van Hasselt, 2024-25, glazed porcelain and acrylic, 330 x 350 x 60mm, (SOLD)'Crimp' by Janna van Hasselt, 2024-25, glazed porcelain and acrylic, 270 x 180 x 120mm, $800'Trill' by Janna van Hasselt, 2024-25, glazed porcelain and acrylic, 340 x 220 x 160mm, $950'Brew' by Janna van Hasselt, 2024-25, glazed porcelain and acrylic, 170 x 160 x 55mm, $350

“I find inspiration in the everyday; the minutiae of life as a parent. Precarious stacks of laundry, collapsing play huts, unraveling braids, frosting heavy cupcakes and the ongoing balance of family life. Works are created manipulating clay and slip using varied actions present in basic life tasks – kneading, rolling, stretching, extruding, slicing, stacking, piercing, plaiting and highlighting.”

Defying perfection whilst being carefully orchestrated, her luscious pieces work to push against the expected confines of ceramics. Van Hasselt is invested in her materiality, perfectly displaying the nature of clay as a highly fluidic and malleable material. This enables her to create works that seemingly have a life of their own. Janna van Hasselt’s work elicits tactile exuberance and her porcelain forms bustle with action as the glossy loops build a visual vocabulary contained within their own energy. 

'Bow' by Janna van Hasselt, 2024-25, glazed earthenware, 390 x 180 x 180mm, $980'Cave' by Janna van Hasselt, 2024-25, glazed porcelain, 180 x 190 x 120mm, $700'Furl' by Janna van Hasselt, 2024-25, glazed porcelain, 100 x 150 x 100mm, $375'Cadence' by Janna van Hasselt, 2024-25, glazed porcelain, 250 x 210 x 190mm, $900'Glut' by Janna van Hasselt, 2024-25, glazed porcelain, 120 x 150 x 190mm (SOLD)

'Wilt' by Janna van Hasselt, 2024-25, glazed porcelain, 390 x 140 x 90mm, $980 'Motley' by Janna van Hasselt, 2024-25, glazed porcelain, 150 x 170 x 90mm, $500 'Slouch' by Janna van Hasselt, 2024-25, glazed porcelain, 310 x 200 x 130mm, $900 'Slush' by Janna van Hasselt, 2024-25 glazed porcelain, 150 x 240 x 170mm, $800'Fringe' by Janna van Hasselt, 2024-25 glazed porcelain, 210 x 160 x 120mm, $500
'Tress' by Janna van Hasselt, 2024-25, glazed porcelain, 350 x 220 x 190mm, $980'Spike by Janna van Hasselt, 2024-25, glazed porcelain, 80 x 130 x 100mm, $450'Intrude' by Janna van Hasselt, 2024-25, glazed porcelain, 210 x 140 x 120mm, $650 'Stockpile' by Janna van Hasselt, 2024-25, glazed porcelain, 370 x 190 x 150mm, $900'Portion' by Janna van Hasselt, 2024-25, glazed porcelain, 120 x 100 x 90mm, $375 'Goo' by Janna van Hasselt, 2024-2025, glazed porcelain, 80 x 110 x 120mm, $350

A selection of the works in Flop on Pop were created in direct response to paintings by Thomas Hancock’s for his concurrent show Mass in Flux. Taking Hancock’s colour schemes and compositions as a starting point and completing the shift from three-dimensions to a flat plane and back again.

ARTISTS TALK – Janna van Hasselt & Thomas Hancock – Wed 19 March, 12noon

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Janna van Hasselt is an Ōtautahi Christchurch based printmaker turned ceramicist. She has a Bachelors in Fine Arts from the Ilam School of Fine Arts in Christchurch, and a Masters in Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as the recipient of a Fulbright Award. She has also undertaken residencies in London, The Netherlands, Belgium and Pennsylvania and exhibited throughout New Zealand. Her major solo exhibition at the Ashburton Art Gallery Chromasill (2021) was the result of her winning the 2020 Zonta Ashburton Female Art Award. Janna filled the Ngātahi stand at the 2023 Aotearoa Art Fair with ceramics and has recently created immersive installations at The Dowse Art Museum, The Arts House Trust and The Quartz Museum of Studio Ceramics.