2024 North Queensland Ceramic Awards

This artwork is about connection,
human fragility, and the search for
fortitude and cultural integration.

Nestled by the form are delicate
porcelain parchments inscribed
with the sacred Hebrew prayer.
‘Birkat-HaKohanim’ is traditionally
recited as a farewell blessing
for loved ones wishing for
wellbeing and sustenance.

Fused into the form,
it reflects on the dual notions
of the need to comfort and protect
and the need to be sheltered.

Presenting ideas of personal
and universal significance,
this work conveys a fusion
of many disparate elements:
clay to fabric, nature to man-made,
past to present, frozen moment
to eternity.

Reflecting on nature’s malleable way of
reproduction and its way of
shielding vulnerable organs,
the organic shaped forms are repeated
and joined, creating one whole.
Each component exists to
balance the other, resulting in
a work that is simultaneously precarious
and resilient.
A metaphor for the migrant experience.