Selected Work
Biography
This practice takes place on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. I pay my respects to Elders past and present, and acknowledge the ongoing relationship between Country, clay, making and storytelling.
visit project website: Alternative Ceramic Supply
Testing Grounds Emporium, 432 Queen Street Naarm/Melbourne
25–28 October 2023
Part of Craft Contemporary 2023
Works from this project are held in the collection of the Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics, Leeuwarden, Netherlands, and are currently on view in Sustainable Ceramics #2: Investigating a Footprint (22 November 2025 – 25 October 2026).
The project disrupted the standard take-make-waste economy of ceramics supply. Ceramicists were prompted to question their usual methods of sourcing raw ingredients and their position in the supply chain. Visitors were invited to imagine what the pottery supply shops of the future might look like. It generated real conversations and helped gauge interest for more materials and future events.
Alternative Ceramic Supply advocates for the custodianship of materials rather than ownership, empowering potters to look at materials in their immediate environment, including local urban waste streams. Environmental, cultural and social responsibility in pottery is at the core of what they do.
Alternative Ceramic Supply: Amelia Black, Claire Ellis, Georgia Stevenson and Sarah Muir-Smith.
Photography: Michael Pham, 2023.