Kohl Tyler — 'Hit the Surface' Sculptural Ceramic, 2025

This sculptural ceramic from Naarm based artist Kohl Tyler explores the interplay between materiality, form, and concepts of time and place, bridging the natural and the speculative. Investigating the form of a spiral; the repetition, curves and ripples that emanate outward speak to what has grown, rather than fabricated. 

Using both stoneware and porcelain clay bodies, Kohl's vessels vary in tone from earthy buffs to bright whites. Thinly carved clay surfaces lay beneath a white dolomite glaze, it’s matte white and grey hues shimmer with small diopside crystals. Rippled walls fold inward and outward, opening to the viewer in unexpected ways, evoking notions of life’s ephemerality and interconnectedness.