artist bio

i am a self-taught, hand-building ceramicist using repeated motifs & easily digestible simplified forms. my things are always domestically functional, with a fictional, socio-ecological narrative. 

north london born, i am a citizen of aotearoa, NZ & resident in meanjin, australia. i began working with clay in 2019. 

likeness by @shiam_ldn

i’m trying to make work that is all around open & slow postures, that refuses ‘cruel is cool, fast is first’. you know that kind of mentality currently peddled by mainstream media, product marketeers & political/corporate fucks? i don’t like those tricks. i feel that they only serve to perpetuate insecurity & disconnection. which, in turn, props up a brutal profit-driven/capital-accumulating status quo.

the figures and scenes i make aim to tell the speculative story of a next world, where evolution is focused on contribution to community, self-loving mythology, communication through art. a society that leans into the land, sea and air. these new life forms mutate through play and experiment, and move into the objects we left behind. it talks, in the simplest ways, about how, even yet, humanoids could get things right.

making this work feels, to me, optimistic and reassuring. a reminder that life only ends if we assume the story is about us. i hope that optimism translates through the functionality of work that can pass forward and forward and forward.

so, welcome to a welcoming post-human earth. as homewares.

and also houses for rats, and fish, that look old. and will last until they are.

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thanks for visiting.

love, laura

life, uh, finds a way - jeff goldblum

never run with a chisel - my dad

oh yeh, i got that like a fever - mcqueen