Transformation: Craft ACT annual members exhibition

Lea Durie
Associate Member / Ceramics
Biography
Lea Durie is a ceramic artist based in
Braidwood and Canberra. Lea is currently
undertaking a Bachelor of Visual Arts with
a ceramics major at the ANU School of
Art and Design. Lea’s work explores land
use and form through mapping, and how
women occupy space. Lea also makes
functional contemporary ceramic objects.
Lea’s work reflects her background as a
landscape architect and her love of mud,
the land and place. Lea works from a
studio space at the Watson Arts Centre.
Artist Statement
Thirst is a response to the drought and
bushfires that surrounded the Braidwood
area in the summer of 2019-20. It explores
the loss of native bushland, water sources,
crops and other introduced landscapes
and the impact this had the fauna of the
region. Boundaries and fencelines defined
new habitat and access to water and food
for animals that survived the devastating
impacts of climate change seen that
summer.
Image: Lea Durie, Thirst, 2021, ceramic slip and
glaze. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.
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