Helen Fuller

The vase & flower show III

With a compulsion to make, collect and transform,Tarntanya/Adelaide artist Helen Fuller comes to ceramics with an intuitive and inventive curiosity. Her multidisciplinary practice of painting, sculpture, photography and installation informs her vessel’s forms and surfaces in a style which she describes as ‘off-road’.

Initially inspired by Japanese Jōmon pottery from the Neolithic period, Helen hand builds with fine coils, pressing leaves and seed pods, among other found objects into the clays surface. Painted lines and grids may reference the tensions of cross-stitch on gingham childhood dresses while areas of painted slip, made from porcelain tailings and oxides, elude to pattern making and Chinese pots. The unglazed surface of her work intentionally position theses vessels somewhere
between painting and sculpture.

Helen has exhibited widely, most recently in 2023 at QUT Art Museum, Brisbane and Samstag Museum, Adelaide in 2022 with furniture desigern Khai Liew. Her work is held in numerous institutional and museum collections.