Kate Jones – 'It Was Raining, Sculptural Vessel, 2024

Kate Jones is a Melbourne-based artist with a practice grounded in clay. She has written about ceramic practice, material ethics, and impulses for making. Teaching is an integral part of her practice. In 2021, she completed a residency at Study in Brunswick called the Provenance Project, which combined politics, poetry, and pottery. Kate was also commissioned to create work for the inaugural exhibition From Impulse to Action at Bundanon Museum of Art in 2022 and through Craft, for Melbourne Now at the NGV in 2023. Currently, she is the president of The Australian Ceramics Association and is undertaking an MFA at VCA.

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