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Clay Shift looks at contemporary ceramic practice in Australia as a space shaped by change, experimentation, and a deep curiosity about material. The exhibition brings together sculptural works by artists who use abstraction to push clay into new territory, moving beyond familiar ideas of form and function.
Across the exhibition, clay is treated as a responsive, expressive medium, something shaped through process, intuition, and risk. Each artist marks a shift in how they approach the material, expanding its language through altered forms, layered meanings, and inventive methods. Their sculptures also carry traces of lived experience: personal histories, cultural perspectives, and the stories that sit behind their making. These influences surface in gesture, structure, and material choices, giving the abstraction its emotional and cultural depth.
Together, the works position ceramic sculpture as a dynamic, evolving practice, one attentive to imagination and transformation, and to the ways artists translate their own worlds into clay.
Artists included in this important exhibition are:
SUSIE CHOI (NSW)
HONOR FREEMAN (SA)
RUTH JU-SHIH LI (NSW)
LEANNE MARSHALL (VIC)
SAMMY UNGWANAKA (NT)