Ceramics

Irene Grishin-Selzer holds an MFA by Research from Monash University, where she exhibited her research at the Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA) and graduated with the Clayworks Australia Award for Ceramic Excellence. Her practice engages with the notion of transience, the shape of time and a sense of place. 

Grishin-Selzer has been recognised as a finalist in esteemed awards, including the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, the Manningham Victorian Ceramic Art Award, and the Victorian Craft Awards. Recent collaborations include a design installation at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) for Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse. Her work has been featured at the Melbourne Art Fair and curated exhibitions across Australia and North America, with solo shows in Melbourne and regionally at the Shepparton Art Museum (SAM).

Grishin-Selzer’s pieces are held in international collections and have been featured in numerous publications, including an artist profile in NGV Magazine and two international art and design compendiums published by Thames & Hudson. Most recently, her work was showcased in Earth & Fire, a comprehensive survey of contemporary Australian ceramic artists.

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STUDIO MULDERS is a Perth based creative project of Annemieke who worked across the world as a scientist before becoming a ceramic artist in 2014. Her work explores the intersection of order, chaos, function, asymmetry and beauty.

She uses discarded vessels that are changed by cutting, rearranging or breaking part of its surface. This process of destruction and building up creates a form that is simultaneously fragile, robust, complex and simple. This inherent contrariness demands questioning and defies simple categorisation.

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STUDIO MULDERS is a Perth based creative project of Annemieke who worked across the world as a scientist before becoming a ceramic artist in 2014. Her work explores the intersection of order, chaos, function, asymmetry and beauty.

She uses discarded vessels that are changed by cutting, rearranging or breaking part of its surface. This process of destruction and building up creates a form that is simultaneously fragile, robust, complex and simple. This inherent contrariness demands questioning and defies simple categorisation.

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STUDIO MULDERS is a Perth based creative project of Annemieke who worked across the world as a scientist before becoming a ceramic artist in 2014. Her work explores the intersection of order, chaos, function, asymmetry and beauty.

She uses discarded vessels that are changed by cutting, rearranging or breaking part of its surface. This process of destruction and building up creates a form that is simultaneously fragile, robust, complex and simple. This inherent contrariness demands questioning and defies simple categorisation.

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DANIEL LEONE is a Canberra based multi-disciplinary artist specialising in ceramics.

Daniel's fun vessels are an eccentric take on the conventional, playing with exaggerated handles, spouts and forms, he pushes the boundaries of what exactly constitutes a vessel.

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DANIEL LEONE is a Canberra based multi-disciplinary artist specialising in ceramics.

Daniel's fun vessels are an eccentric take on the conventional, playing with exaggerated handles, spouts and forms, he pushes the boundaries of what exactly constitutes a vessel.

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YURO CUCHOR is a South Australia based artist who is originally from Slovakia. Yuro studied Ceramics and Stone Restoration in Slovakia and later graduated from University of South Australia with a Bachelor of Visual Arts. Yuro's contemporary ceramics are created using handbuilding and slipcasting techniques - at the heart of Yuro's practice is a keen interested in experimenting with a lot of different materials, often mixing them together. Alongside his functional pieces like his signature jugs, Yuro also creates sculptural works that are often based on simple geometric shapes which are then put together in various ways, enabling endless possibilities.

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MALI TAYLOR is a Melbourne based ceramic artist currently exploring the parameters of coil methodology within her practice. Born in the Northern Rivers of NSW, Mali spent her childhood immersed in the beauties of the Australian landscape, which has undoubtedly influenced her practice.

Mali completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts specialising in object based practice and has since won and been a finalist in multiple awards.

Through the methodical and meditative layering of earthy clay, Mali’s hand-built sculptures hold time, invoking memories of archaic Australian landscapes. 

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Introducing pépite edits - bespoke collections of contemporary objects, designed by pépite, artist-made and exclusively available at pépite. 

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LAUREN JOFFE is a ceramic artist born in Cape Town, who immigrated to Melbourne as a child.

She studied Fine Art (Gold & Silversmithing) at RMIT and after graduating began her art practice as a contemporary jeweller and object maker, before changing medium to ceramics. Lauren’s work has been exhibited throughout Australia and internationally. She has been a finalist in a number of national and international awards and her work has been acquired by private collectors, RMIT and the Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery.

She hand builds her pieces, which are often large in scale, and is primarily concerned with exploring the aesthetics of the vessel form and in the surfaces of her pieces through mark making and texture.

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SHARON ALPREN is a Melbourne based ceramic artist working out of her home studio in the Macedon Ranges. Sharon took up ceramics 15 years ago after relocating to Australia from her native UK where she had a background in Textiles.

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SHARON ALPREN is a Melbourne based ceramic artist working out of her home studio in the Macedon Ranges. Sharon took up ceramics 15 years ago after relocating to Australia from her native UK where she had a background in Textiles.

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TESSY KING is a ceramic artist based on the Northern Rivers in NSW working from her shed studio. During her Fine Arts studies at RMIT Tessy trained in Gold and Silversmithing as well as Ceramics which is reflected in the metal and enamel qualities of her pieces.

Her focus is on the process and arrangement of each piece she makes, granting herself freedom to construct form and integrate colour in an uncontrived way reflecting a youthful notion of play.

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TESSY KING is a ceramic artist based on the Northern Rivers in NSW working from her shed studio. During her Fine Arts studies at RMIT Tessy trained in Gold and Silversmithing as well as Ceramics which is reflected in the metal and enamel qualities of her pieces.

Her focus is on the process and arrangement of each piece she makes, granting herself freedom to construct form and integrate colour in an uncontrived way reflecting a youthful notion of play.

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ANNA PARSONS is a ceramicist, working intuitively, finding clay as a receptive medium to express herself. Anna often incorporates additions such as volcanic rock from the bush around where she lives. Anna's practice took many years of experimentation of temperature and clay body to get these results - she fires her work numerous times, sometimes up to 5 firings to get the desired effects. Anna majored in sculpture at  BA Sydney College of the Arts and now lives in Rosebank, NSW.

Clay receives me

Weaving instinctively

Bouncing Off

My inner psychology

Materiality, chemistry, bodily

I cast shadows

Text by Anna Parsons.

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ANNA PARSONS is a ceramicist, working intuitively, finding clay as a receptive medium to express herself. Anna often incorporates additions such as volcanic rock from the bush around where she lives. Anna's practice took many years of experimentation of temperature and clay body to get these results - she fires her work numerous times, sometimes up to 5 firings to get the desired effects. Anna majored in sculpture at  BA Sydney College of the Arts and now lives in Rosebank, NSW.

Clay receives me

Weaving instinctively

Bouncing Off

My inner psychology

Materiality, chemistry, bodily

I cast shadows

Text by Anna Parsons.

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ALICIA MCVILLY is a Ceramic artist from Melbourne. She places value on simplicity and functionality of form as well as sustainability and connection. 

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ALTERFACT is an experimental design studio created by Lucile Sciallano and Ben Landau in 2014. Since graduating from Design Academy Eindhoven in 2013, Lucile and Ben have worked in tandem on various projects in different mediums. Their collaboration has culminated in the creation of Alterfact Studio, a platform through which to conduct critical research with materials and data translated through the manufacture of ‘stuff’.

Alterfact’s practice is currently focused on the use of 3D printing in clay as a small batch manufacturing process. They push the boundaries of this traditionally plastic-based medium, and play with its connotations of utilitarianism and gimmickry, as it moves into a feasible reality.

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SHARON ALPREN is a Melbourne based ceramic artist working out of her home studio in the Macedon Ranges. Sharon took up ceramics 15 years ago after relocating to Australia from her native UK where she had a background in Textiles.

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Hayley a West  (H.A.W)  is an artist, designer and educator who grew up in Orange on Wiradjuri land and currently lives/ works on Gadigal land in Newtown, Sydney.

She has a BA Fine Arts from UNSW COFA and a BA Interior and Spatial Design at UTS. In the last decade, Hayley’s fine art and design background has progressed to a practice centred around ceramics. Working as a technician and artist educator in several ceramics studios whilst also producing a range of functional and exhibition works from her home studio. Her practice has a strong focus on design and the development of glazes. 

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Hayley a West  (H.A.W)  is an artist, designer and educator who grew up in Orange on Wiradjuri land and currently lives/ works on Gadigal land in Newtown, Sydney.

She has a BA Fine Arts from UNSW COFA and a BA Interior and Spatial Design at UTS. In the last decade, Hayley’s fine art and design background has progressed to a practice centred around ceramics. Working as a technician and artist educator in several ceramics studios whilst also producing a range of functional and exhibition works from her home studio. Her practice has a strong focus on design and the development of glazes. 

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LA PETITE FABRIQUE DE BRUNSWICK is a Melbourne based ceramic studio created by artist Lucile in 2014. Lucile was born in the south of France and now works from her garden shed in Brunswick.

Slip cast techniques are used to create functional and sculptural bowls, cups and teapots that begin with a prototype used to make a mould to cast the iterations of each shape. Using pigments to colour the porcelain, Lucile applies patterns by hand to make each piece unique.

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LA PETITE FABRIQUE DE BRUNSWICK is a Melbourne based ceramic studio created by artist Lucile in 2014. Lucile was born in the south of France and now works from her garden shed in Brunswick.

Slip cast techniques are used to create functional and sculptural bowls, cups and teapots that begin with a prototype used to make a mould to cast the iterations of each shape. Using pigments to colour the porcelain, Lucile applies patterns by hand to make each piece unique.

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LA PETITE FABRIQUE DE BRUNSWICK is a Melbourne based ceramic studio created by artist Lucile in 2014. Lucile was born in the south of France and now works from her garden shed in Brunswick.

Slip cast techniques are used to create functional and sculptural bowls, cups and teapots that begin with a prototype used to make a mould to cast the iterations of each shape. Using pigments to colour the porcelain, Lucile applies patterns by hand to make each piece unique.

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