Rachelle Austen
Rachelle Austen — Pervium Caelare Sphaeram - To Reveal Through the Sphere, 2025
DONE/UNDONE
Curated by Joseph Gardner
VISIONARIES 2025: Presenting the future of Australian art, craft and design through the lens of one of the country's most influential creatives.
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To reveal through the sphere, where light and material converge in quiet balance. These porcelain forms trace the curve between wholeness and fracture, the seen and unseen. The gauze veil softens the threshold, holding fragility and resilience in equal measure. A meditation on touch, time, and the slow transformation of form. Best positioned in a windowsill or in front of a lamp to show the translucent veil.
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Rachelle Austen is a ceramic sculptural artist based in the Macedon Ranges on Dja Dja Wurrung Country. With a background in Industrial Design and over eight years of exploring and working with clay, Austen combines design rigour with artisan hand-building. Working primarily in dense, slab-built clay, she assembles abstract series through slab construction and various components, incorporating controlled cracking, surface finishing, and considered firing. Her practice maintains a dialogue between contrasts—light and dark, delicacy and solidity, control and chance—shaping objects that embody tactile tension and quiet balance, creating space for reflection. Light and repetition are central to her work, where shifting daylight and subtle variations reveal new contours, inviting a slowing of time. Austen’s work exists between material investigation and poetic resonance.
14 November 2025 - 7 February 2026
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Joseph Gardner is the 2025 Visionaries curator – presenting DONE/UNDONE: an exhibition of 50+ artists, and one of Craft’s largest exhibitions to date – featuring artists working across medium, scale and practice, representing exceptional Australian talent.
DONE/UNDONE explores the creative process as a space of constant negotiation – a series of decisions to build, erase, repeat, or let be. It’s about that intuitive moment when a maker chooses to pause, to push further, or to dismantle entirely. These are the choices that define the rhythm of making – choices familiar to artists, designers, and creators across disciplines.
Joseph Gardner is the Style Editor at Vogue Living, with a decade of experience in publishing and styling, and the founder of Sydney-based gallery, Studio Gardner.
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Material: porcelain, porcelain slip gauze
Dimensions: approx. 9 x 9 x 4cm
Please note: purchased works are to be collected at the conclusion of the exhibition (7 February 2026).
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