green veined dream (i)
Under Fire: Clay from the Western Edge, curated by Emma Buswell
For Australian Ceramics Triennale
4 October - 2 November 2025
Walyalup Fremantle Arts Centre
Documentation: Guy Louden
green veined dream (i) collages ceramic tiles, wall drawings that imagine the walls are blushing, and assemblages of found organic and inorganic materials. I have collected and reconfigured these materials over the last few years and present an immersive installation, that functions as if stepping into a thought bubble. The presentation of these artworks place emphasis on studio practice – fragments and puzzle pieces, intermittent bursts of thought through material language.
The tiles allude to organic vegetable forms that have self-sown from my compost bin, as well as imaginary organs, tunicates washed ashore from storms, glyphs and scientific diagrams that depict various processes of emergence and transformation.
My line of inquiry began with an admiration of natural phenomena as inherently magical material through its processes of becoming, the regenerative nature of a vegetable garden and its ability to continuously transform, adapt and renew amidst changing conditions. The garden, the thought bubble, and the comma are each symbolically interchangeable sites of possibility, tools for worldbuilding and ways of navigating emotional landscapes.
