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EMILY ELLIS is a Sydney based object designer and ceramicist. Her work explores our relationship to everyday objects through both surface and shape and how we integrate these into our daily rituals. Her vessels are all hand built, carved back and sculptured allowing the clay to reveal its form.

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KENNY YONG-SOO SON, from STUDIOKYSS is an object maker based in Sydney, Australia.

With background in metal craft and object design, the fundamental focus behind Son’s practice is to create work that resemblance a sense of longevity and hand-craftsmanship. The design aesthetics of Son’s work relate to the idea of reduction and simplicity with emphasis on modern and traditional craftsmanship in the physical work process.

Son is interested in producing work that has the ability to interact with the user and its surroundings, allowing a trigger of emotions of the user when in harmony with the object. Son firmly believes, for contemporary crafts and craftsmanship to excel, is reliant on current and future makers to translate their outputs in a habitual and ingenuous manner towards the public. Work that is perhaps ordinary, rather a work that is conceived to be extraordinary. 

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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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STEPHANIE PHILLIPS is a ceramic artist from Sydney, Australia. She draws strong influence in her artistic direction from both of her grandmothers. Her paternal grandmother was a Russian immigrant who was a talented artist and craftswoman, while her maternal grandmother was involved in the establishment of The Crommelin Native Arboretum at Pearl Beach, NSW, where Stephanie has spent many weekends and holidays since childhood.

At a young age, she developed an affinity with the Australian bush and the influence of the forms and colours of native flora are evident in her work. Drawing on her love of plants, she creates curved vessels to house modern Ikebana. Using a combination of clays, glazes and oxides she creates her own colours and textures.

Stephanie studied glass arts at Sydney College of the Arts, mosaics at Randwick Tafe and fabric design and printing at East Sydney Tech before finding her true calling in ceramics. She has studied at ceramics at Gymea Tafe and at Hazelhurst in Sydney.

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EMILY ELLIS is a Sydney based object designer and ceramicist. Her work explores our relationship to everyday objects through both surface and shape and how we integrate these into our daily rituals. Her vessels are all hand built, carved back and sculptured allowing the clay to reveal its form.

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RINA BERNABEI has been working in industrial design for the past 30 years. She has brought her love of earthy, clean aesthetics to clay. Her work encapsulates her years of practice as a product designer as well as the relationships between handmade craft practices and digital technologies and manufacture. In 2018 Rina completed a traditional throwing course in Kyoto with a master ceramicist and in 2020 was asked to set up the 3D digital ceramic studio at Kyushu University in Fukuoka. Working within the Architecture and Design Faculty she ran workshops with students and with local craftsmen and ceramic studios. 

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PAULINE MEADE has been using clay as her chosen medium since completing a Diploma of Ceramics in 2007, continuing to extend her practice at School of Clay and Art ( SOCA).

Pauline has been exhibiting her work in Melbourne and was a finalist in Clune's Ceramic Award where she won a judges' recognition and the People's Choice award.
Pauline predominantly hand builds, as well as using the wheel to enhance her pieces, emphasising texture and layering of glazes. It's the dry sclerophyll bush, wild wattle and ironbark forests that continue to inform her work, the landscape from her childhood.

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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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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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ELLA BENDRUPS is an emerging ceramic artist whose practice explores ancient clay and stone artefacts and their ability to transcend the times and cultures in which they were created. She embraces the expressive nature of hand building, pinching, coiling and carving clay to highlight the maker’s touch. With a background in styling supported by studies in Communication Design and Interior Design and Decoration at RMIT University, Ella began social ceramics classes in late 2015 before progressing to a self-led explorative practice. Ella hand builds each of her pieces in a small home studio in Naarm’s/Melbourne’s inner North.

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ANNA GLEESON is an Australian artist now based in New-York. Anna creates contemporary ceramic sculptures using traditional hand-building techniques which she manipulates in order to distort the expected aesthetic of a vessel, creating playful and intriguing sculptures. 
'My ceramics practice is in conversation with a vessel tradition and aiming to complicate and extend that tradition. Using eccentric and invented techniques I push materials beyond what I know will work and into some kind of failure. I deliberately set up new ways of working with that mess and complicate an existing mode of making. I'm curious to see how it will fail; what that failure might look like or evoke. Working this way feels connected to some of my earliest childhood memories of making - not being as good at it as I would like, not having the right kind of glue or skills and being anyway completely absorbed in the attempt; pulled chiefly by curiosity.' - Anna Gleeson.

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Originally from South America, Venezuela, FERNANDO SALAS, FDO STUDIO is a versatile visual artist now based in Perth.

Fernando's creative journey began with explorations in painting and sculpture and has since evolved into the world of ceramics where he has found a unique voice - each one of his pieces is a testament to this evolution.
Fernando now specialises in hand-built ceramics, creating a diverse range of works including wall pieces, sculptures and vases. He works with various types of clay and crafts his own glazes from scratch in his studio. This meticulous, hands-on process enables him to produce one-of-a-kind pieces and maintain complete control over the textures, colours, and finishes of his creations.

Fernando's work reflects a harmonious blend of old and new, tradition and innovation, inviting viewers to experience the intersection of painting and pottery in a captivating and tactile way.

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