Rachelle Austen
Rachelle Austen — Pervia Fenestrae - Veiled Windows, 2025
Abstract double-sided sculpture with a stand. Porcelain slabs hold quiet apertures — spaces where light seeps through restraint. Each window becomes a gentle threshold, revealing presence through absence, and stillness through translucence. Best positioned in a windowsill or in front of a lamp to show the translucent veil. Fragile to touch.
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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.
Material: Porcelain, oxides, brass, black clay body
Dimensions: approx. 18.5 x 9 x 4cm