I work primarily in porcelain and stoneware, developing my own glazes through ongoing testing and experimentation. My practice is material-driven, with a focus on surface, translucency, and the behaviour of clay through firing. I often incorporate materials gathered from the natural environment — plants, rocks, and minerals — both to create surface textures and as inclusions within the clay body.
Working across these materials allows me to explore tensions between refinement and robustness, fragility and durability, control and unpredictability. I am interested in how materials hold traces of use, time, and place, and how ceramics can function as carriers of narrative, memory, and transformation.
My practice is interdisciplinary, informed by backgrounds in both ecology and visual art. I originally trained in ecology, completing a BSc at La Trobe University and a PhD at the University of Sydney, before later undertaking a BFA at the University of Tasmania. Alongside my work in environmental assessment, I have continued to develop a ceramics practice increasingly focused on ecological traces, material memory, porcelain, translucency, and what I think of as “ceramic afterlives” — the persistence of ceramic objects and fragments as cultural, ecological, and historical traces across time.
My work explores intersections between ecology, history, material culture, and embodied making, using clay as a medium through which memories, absences, and transformations can be materially recorded and reinterpreted.
I am particularly drawn to the ecological significance of what is easily overlooked: beetles, snails, worms, and other seemingly insignificant ecosystem engineers that break down detritus, cycle nutrients, and sustain forests and grasslands. I am equally interested in the plants inhabiting neglected edges and disturbed ground, and in the subtle interdependencies that allow ecosystems to flourish. These modest organisms and overlooked species are no less important than the large charismatic forms that typically dominate our attention and cultural imagination.
