AMPHLORA
A re-imagined ancient amphora form, hand built in terracotta clay and painted with deconstructed fragments of leaves, waratah and wattle, broken apart and rearranged like shifting reflections.
Three small finches perch along the rim of the vessel, gathered as if in conversation. Their presence brings a sense of life and curiosity, while the vessel sits on a mirror that repeats and transforms the pattern below.
Amphlora plays with the idea that what we see is always shaped by what surrounds it.
“When we change the way we look at things, the things we look at change.” Dr. Wayne Dyer
Terracotta midfire clay with sgraffittoed coloured papercaly slip, 34 × 20cm
POA
PIGEON PEACOCK
This work explores how identity can expand when we choose to see ourselves differently. A vessel supports a hybrid figure – a pigeon wearing the splendour of a peacock – not to contrast the ordinary and the extraordinary, but to suggest that both live within us at once. The humble pigeon, so often overlooked, steps into the radiance of the peacock, reminding us that dignity and beauty are as much a matter of attitude as appearance.
Here, the vessel becomes a container for possibility. Real peacock feathers embedded into the ceramic surface heighten this sense of transformation, blurring the boundary between who we believe we are and who we might become. Through material and metaphor, the work proposes that with the right framing—and the right self‑belief—even the most unassuming among us can choose to see ourselves as peacocks.
34 × 20cm, POA