Minna Graham — 'Glacier' Bowls Set, 2025

Rooted in a deep engagement with the wild and untamed forces of nature, this work responds to the emotional impact of witnessing immense glaciers, sublime, ancient, and rapidly disappearing. These vast ice forms evoke a powerful paradox: awe in their monumental beauty and sorrow in their fragility. This emotional tension shapes a ceramic practice that seeks to translate the grandeur, unpredictability, and vulnerability of natural landscapes into sculptural vessels. Intuitive and experimental techniques such as cutting, tearing, carving, and stretching clay mimic the ruptures and flows of glacial and geological activity. Natural materials including ash, slips, and glazes are used to build rich surfaces that echo the tonal and textural complexity of melting ice.

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Minna Graham is a ceramic artist living and working near Daylesford on Dja Dja Wurrung country. Heavily influenced by nature, she uses contrasting elements to achieve balance in her ceramic forms. Through processes of carving, tearing, cutting and ripping she exposes what is below the surface. Graham incorporates slips, pigments and glazes in her work to create tonal contrast and texture. These processes are an emotional response to the contrasting seasons, cultures and traditions.  

Graham has been the finalist for numerous Australian ceramic awards and has collaborated with the hospitality and entertainment industry to create commission-based works. Graham studied a Diploma of Ceramics at the University of Ballarat, 2009 and a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Federation University in Victoria, 2014. 

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Materials: Mixed stoneware, pigment, slips, Nuka and ash glaze

Dimensions: variable - 13 x 6cm, 12 x 6cm, 10 x 5cm