I am an Australian artist working out of an old bakery called Bakehouse Studio Marrickville in Sydney’s Inner West. My background is in design, painting and teaching.

I love experimenting with glazes on the 3D canvas of hand-built, ceramic sculpture to create botanically and biologically – inspired totemic forms and small sculptural works.

Having taught part-time in universities and from my studio for over 20 years, I now share my love of clay with local and other communities through workshops and open studios.

My work can be found at Winmark Wines Gallery, Broke and the Sydney Ceramics Market.

Grants
Individual Artist Grant, Ceramic Installation: Cooks River Clay Connections, Inner West Council, Sydney 2022

Commissions
Botanical Sculptures 2017 – present including Frida, 2024, Honeysuckle 2024 and 2022 and a variety of other botanical sculptures from Regional Sculpture Prizes
Figurative Sculpture: Brigitte, Sydney 2023
Abstract Sculpture: Mid-C, Sydney 2022
Abstract Sculpture: Persian Carpet Totem, Sydney 2016

Exhibitions
2025
Selected: Sydney Ceramics Market, Carriageworks, Oct. 2025
The Other Art Fair – Non-Functional Ceramics, Sydney, 2025
2024
Sydney Ceramics Market, Carriageworks, Oct. 2024
Sculptures in The Garden 2024, Roseby Estate, Mudgee, Oct. 2024
Sculpture in The Vineyards 2024, Wollombi, Sept.. 2024
Sculptures at Scratchley, Fort Scratchley, Newcastle, May, 2024
Eco Echo: Ceramic Conversations with the Wild, Gallery Lowe and Lee, Sydney, Apr. 2024
Inspire & Evolve: Celebrating International Women’s Day, CBD Gallery, Sydney, Mar. 2024
Ave Mardi Gras: Mother Abyss, Gallery Lowe and Lee, Sydney, Feb. 2024
Joy, Crackpot Gallery, Freshwater, Feb. 2024
2023
Les Sculptures Refusées, Quarantine Station, Sydney, Oct. 2023
Artisans In The Gardens 2023, Royal Botanical Gardens Sydney, Oct., 2023
Les Sculptures Refusées, Quarantine Station, Sydney, Oct., 2023
Sculptures in The Garden 2023, Roseby Estate, Mudgee, Oct. 2023
HIDDEN Rookwood Sculptures, Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney, Oct., 2023
HIDDEN Satellite Exhibition, McGlade Gallery, ACU, Sydney, Oct., 2023
Bloom, Weswall Gallery, Tamworth, June, 2023
Sculptures at Scratchley, Fort Scratchley, Newcastle, May 2023
On The Edge: Species at Risk, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, Mar. 2023
True Colours, Kerrie Lowe Gallery, Feb. 2023
Colour My World, Crackpot Gallery, Freshwater, Feb. 2023
2022
Festival of Natives, Gang Gang Gallery, Lithgow, Nov. 2022
Greenway Art Prize, Leichhardt Bus Museum, Sydney, Oct. 2022
Sculptures in The Garden 2022, Roseby Estate, Mudgee, Oct. 2022
Cooks River Clay Connections, Edge Creative Trail Marrickville, Dulwich Hill, Aug. 2022
Form, Surface, Structure: Ceramic Sculpture, Kerrie Lowe Gallery, Aug. 2022
Artisans in the Gardens 2021, Royal Botanical Gardens Sydney, Apr. 2022
2021
Red Fish, Blue Fish, Group Show, Purple Noon Gallery, Freemans Reach, Dec. 2021
Artisans in the Gardens 2021 – Online, Royal Botanical Gardens Sydney, Oct. 2021
Florescence, Group Show, Purple Noon Gallery, Sept. 2021
Fungi x Botanica, Royal Botanical Gardens Sydney, Apr. 2021
Mardi Gras 2021, Group Show Kerrie Lowe Gallery, Feb. 2021
2020
Across The Table, with Lucila Zentner & Louise Frith, Purple Noon Gallery, Oct. 2020
Australian Museum, Ceramic Birds, Australian Museum Shop, Sydney Oct. 2020 – present
Alchemy, Group Show, Kerrie Lowe Gallery, October 2020
The Tiny Art Show, Group Show, Purple Noon Gallery, Freemans Reach, April 2020
2019
The Others, Ceramics Triennale 2019, TACA, Hobart, Tasmania PW1, Apr. 2019
Yes! Yes! Nanette! Mardi Gras Show Kerrie Lowe Gallery, Feb. 2019
2018
Artisans in The Gardens 2019, Ceramic Installation, Botanic Gardens Sydney, Oct. 2018
Form, Surface, Structure Sculpture Show, Kerrie Lowe, Oct. 2018
2017
Form, Surface, Structure, Sculpture Group Show Kerrie Lowe, Oct. 2017
Spring, Ceramic Installation, The Happenstore, Annandale, Sept. 2017
The Knowledge: Work by Teachers of Ceramics in Sydney, Kerrie Lowe Gallery, Jun. 2017
Room, Group Show with Michaela James & Sue Rintoul, The Shop Gallery, Glebe, Jan. 2017
1998-2014
Found & Made Book Launch, StirrUp Gallery, Addison Road Marrickville, Sept. 2014
Found – Window Mural/Installation, Dymocks, Sydney CBD, Oct. 2012
JuxtApose, Bachelor of Teaching graduate show, The Stables, Vaucluse House, Jun. 2009
Cactus Garden – 3-day performance, Sydney Design, Spence & Lyda, Sydney, Oct. 2009
Liquid Light Love cur. United Galleries for Saatchi & Saatchi, Sydney, Aug. 2005
Temporally Yours Performance Video Installation, Sydney Esquisse,, Sydney, Mar. 2004
New Media: Photography & the Moving Image cur. Brenda Colahan, Poliform, Sydney, 2004
The Shangri-La Collective, cur. Maria Cruz, IMA Brisbane 2004, Bathurst Regional Gallery 2004, Artspace, Sydney, Apr. 2003
Working Inside Out/Back to Front Performance, Sydney Esquisse, Sydney, Nov. 2003
Portia Geach Memorial Award 2003 Finalist, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, Oct, 2003
Anything But White Noise – Solo Show, Spence & Lyda, Sydney, Aug. 2003
Portia Geach Memorial Award 2002, Finalist, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, Oct. 2002
Blown to Burst, Solo Show, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney University, Jun. 2002
Degree Show 2001, Master of Visual Arts, Main Gallery, Sydney University, Dec. 2001
Portia Geach Memorial Award 2001, Finalist, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, Oct. 2001
Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship, Finalist, Artspace, Sydney, Apr. 2001
Hatched, Healthway National Graduate Show, PICA, Perth, May, 2000
End of Year Exhibition, Gallery 4a, Chinatown, Sydney, Dec. 1999
Portia Geach Memorial Award 1999, Finalist, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, Oct. 1999
Skin Deep with Cherry Hood, Gallery 132, Rozelle, Sydney Oct. 1998