2020 Women’s Art Prize Tasmania - Finalist

Promise, 2019. Porcelain. 30 x 15 x 30cm.

This collection is an imagining of a future ecology, defined as an immense capacity for resilience, adaptation, evolution, reproduction and survival. Zooming in to the small world of the ‘morphoids’, specimens of mutant subtleties defying classification come into focus. Unidentifiable as male or female, they appear rapturous, sensually interacting in a dance of cyclic fertility. A tenuous space can be sensed in the insinuation of touch, are they compatible? Will they achieve the connection they desire? What is being shared in this anticipated exchange? Such tenuous, yet tender moments are evocative of the desire to connect, to procreate, and furthermore survive.