I am a Melbourne-based artist who has a compact, yet diverse practice in ceramics.

Having completed a Bachelor of Design, my creative career began as a graphic designer in digital media. However, after 15 years and desiring a more tactile approach, I returned to university to complete a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts (Hons) Sculpture and soon found ceramics to be the space from which I wanted to create. Herein my skills as a designer provided a firm foothold into new territories of creativity and allowed for a redirected focus towards the formulation of my current art practice.

Since then, I have exhibited in emerging artist exhibitions at Factory 49, Kerry Lowe Gallery and Clay Gulgong; was a finalist in the Wyndham Art Prize in 2019, and again in 2023, the Siliceous Award for Ceramic Excellence in 2021, the Clunes Ceramic Award 2022, and most recently, the Klytie Pate Ceramics Award in 2023.

My work is twofold, though neither is mutually exclusive as I enjoy the challenge of expressing ideas of chance, and material agency within more refined, conceptual porcelain works, as well as within earthier utilitarian pieces.

From within a deep material engagement, my sculptural practice focuses on the creation of gestural porcelain slip works. Here the relationship between material and process is illuminated, with the viewer tempted to contemplate the poetic and the imaginative. Features of gesture, chance, and assemblage frequently reoccur. 

This interest in the materiality and inherent poetry of fluid porcelain slip continues into the making of my functional ware. And through the formation of my glazes and their unique interactions, I can continue to foster and feed my fascination with their possibilities. My glazes are often applied in a painterly manner, utilising layers and elements of chance to seek serendipitous colour and variation.

Whilst I love to create delicate porcelain works, I appreciate the delight experienced in the use of handmade ceramics in the home and consider my functional ware as smaller pieces of art, created to enhance everyday rituals – such as the making of a morning coffee or adding greenery from the garden to a vase – each moment reminding us of a connection to the elemental materials of which we are a part.