Dawn (BAVA Hons.) is currently undertaking her PhD at the University of Ballarat in regional Victoria. The title of her PhD project is ‘Sacred Space in Contemporary Society’ and specifically asks: Can the artist, through ceramic installation, act as a conduit linking humanity’s secular and spiritual existence?
Dawn is interested in exploring the organic nuances expressed through the medium of clay. Tactile and textured surfaces and undulating forms combine to conjure reactions within the viewer that trigger lost and forgotten responses toward the natural environment, thus facilitating a reinvigoration of the viewer’s inherent interconnectedness to their surroundings.
A recent winner of the Pat Emery Award for Emerging Artists, Dawn has artwork in the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery collection, has been published in The Journal of Australian Ceramics and recently presented a paper about her research at a conference in Tasmania, which is now being peer reviewed for publication.
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