Artist Statement

My practice explores botanical form through porcelain, black clay and structural materials. Drawing from the natural environment, I hand-form individual flowers and organic elements, allowing subtle variations, irregularities and movement to remain visible in each piece.

I am interested in the tension between fragility and permanence. Porcelain brings delicacy, translucency and light, while black clay and cement introduce weight, grounding and a sense of permanence. Increasingly, my work has become pared back, focusing on the relationship between a single flower, its stem and the space surrounding it.

Rather than reproducing flowers precisely, I use botanical forms as a starting point. Curved stems, repetition, colour and changing scale allow the work to move between the familiar and the imagined.

My work is influenced by the Barossa landscape and its cycles of growth, decay and renewal, preserving something fleeting through the permanence of fired clay.