Selected Speaker for 'Wedge', The Australian Ceramics Triennale, 2025

'Experimentation in Ceramics'

Wedge is a 4-day ceramics conference, offering delegates a diverse range of exhibitions, demonstrations, lectures, and panel discussions providing an immersive and enriching experience. Wedge explores connections, collaborations and divisions within the increasingly sophisticated practices of ceramic artists today. Wedge aims to identify and interrogate the increasingly complex interactions between ceramic practice and current ethical, aesthetic, personal, and environmental concerns.

The Edge of the Wedge ceramics group exhibition, presented alongside the Australian Ceramics Triennale at Old Customs House in Fremantle, ran from 26 September to 5 October 2025.

ARTIST STATEMENT

This practice led talk highlights an investigation and experimentation in ceramics generated and inspired by a multi disciplinary art practice.

Initially coming from a painting background, my coiled hand build stoneware ceramic forms are applied with painterly layers of glaze and slips combined with an unorthodox approach to multiple firings, becoming a fusion of glaze, clay, and the gestural mark. These vessel forms speak of the archaic, acknowledging symbolic reverences; as container, to hold, now delineated as contemporary, individual and innovative sculpture. Exhibited alongside large acrylic paintings on linen, a dialogue is established between the two mediums, a conversation between paint and clay. This concept is further extended with ceramics becoming part of an installation context, including sculptural forms embedded with ceramic shards.

Exhibited alongside large textile works and video components transformed to an immersive experience. Riverscape videos projected onto groupings of ceramic vessels accompanied by soundscapes reverberate, articulate and abstract the ceramic form. Recent collaborations with a choreographer and dancer, have led to further experimentations. The human body responding directly to the ceramic vessel echoes a layered iconography. The female body, representation of fertility mirrors an inherent materiality of form, and sentient vessels become actors on a theatrical stage.