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2024

SALA Festival 2024
Lush/ South Australian Botanicals

JAM FACTORY
Barrossa Valley SA

My enduring fascination with discarded metal has emerged in my ceramics practise as a preoccupation with the visual and material dialogue between clay and iron. 

This work is a love note to the remote car graveyards of the Central Desert, where earth and iron converge, and where I have spent many introspective hours wading through long grass in search of discarded and broken treasures.

Materials: stoneware, glaze, iron oxide, found metal

Essay by Carly Takari Dodd

Photos by Connor Patterson

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