Here and Now: Gold Coast Triennial 2024 Digital Gallery
Larissa Warren
b.1978 Gold Coast QLD, lives Tamborine Mountain QLD
Gathered Shadows , 2024
porcelain, ceramic stains, local clay
Commissioned for Here and Now: Gold Coast Triennial
Image courtesy of HOTA, Home of the Arts
Artist Statement
In Gathered Shadows, Larissa Warren transcends decorative ceramics, creating vessels that weave together time, personal history, and place.
Larissa uncovers and collects layers of earth, embedding unique structures into her work using organic textures, patterns, wild clays, and stained porcelains. The clay for each pair of vessels, has been unearthed from one of 12 local locations - mainly educational campuses. Nestled alongside each other the pair features a coloured porcelain vessel, echoing Larissa’s vibrant Gold Coast upbringing during the 1980s and 1990s and a local clay 'shadow' vessel that geologically represents a much earlier form of time and place.
The pairings tell the story of the Gold Coast's unique geology, merging personal history with the natural world.
About the Artist
Larissa Warren is an established ceramicist, researcher and art teacher. The transformative and technical properties of her ceramic materials drive much of her practice and extends upon her passion for exploiting clay’s possibilities and boundaries. Echoing local landscapes and using raw clays found through field studies and the use of archives, she looks to geological metamorphosis and local histories when developing her concepts. On most days she can be found in her studio, an underground bunker on Tamborine Mountain.
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