2024 Michael Miller Scholarship Fund Winners
Susan creates multi-disciplinary work that considers the contemporary landscape to be emergent system where nature, culture and the engineered environment are indistiguishable from one another. Central to her practice is the collection, documentation and observation of seasonal change and emphemera in both natural and artificial environments. Her work is realized in several formats, including installation, video, prints and drawings, as well as projects that engage communities to look at local and global environments.
Vicki's work is inspired by the coastal landscapes she visits regularly and which she records by taking endless photos. The rock platforms and eroded cliffs, along with collected shells, sea-worn sticks and broken coral provide endless possibilities, both visually and as tools to impress into her pinched forms. Her process starts with a single ball of clay which is slowly pinched in a spiral movement, from bottom to top, several times. This meditative practice allows Vicki to sense the thickness of the walls, exploring both its strength and its fragility. Made with either translucent porcelain or stoneware (to be woodfired), her work spans functional, sculptural and decorative realms.
