JADE POWER
Quiet Exchanges

Jade Power’s practice is grounded in a deep engagement with material, and the quiet yet rigorous labour of making. Working primarily with porcelain, she approaches creative practice as a space where control yields to collaboration.

Through slow, repetitive gestures, she builds an embodied relationship with materials. The work often begins with precise, intentional forms, which are then subjected to processes that invite transformation, risk and unpredictability. Gravity, heat, and the agency of the kiln act as co-creators - warping, collapsing and reshaping the work beyond the artist’s hand. Surrender to the unknown is central to her process. Rather than pursuing perfection or predetermined outcomes, Power welcomes uncertainty as a site of possibility - where form, meaning, and knowledge emerge through chance, disruption, and collaboration. The completed works become a dialogue between meticulous labor, repetition and control; balanced with the spontaneity and volatility of ceramic processes.

Power explores how precarity and paradox can be held within a material practice. Her work negotiates the space between structure and collapse, control and surrender and resists the drive toward fixed outcomes or resolved forms. Rather than seeking resolution, her practice dwells in these tensions, treating contradiction not as a problem to solve, but a space to inhabit.

An ongoing negotiation with self, material, and the world, her creative practice is a space to unlearn control and stay with uncertainty. Power’s work invites slowness, reflection, and presence. This way of working becomes a metaphor for how we might move through the world. Her practice is about staying with the trouble - offering a quiet reflection on the complexity of the human experience.

Jade Power completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ceramics at RMIT in 2024 and is currently undertaking her Honours degree. Her graduate work recognised with several awards, including the Fiona & Sidney Myer Ceramic Art Award, the Ceramics and Glass Circle of Australia Award, and the Stockroom Kyneton Exhibition Award—offering her the exciting opportunity to exhibit with Stockroom. Power’s graduate work is also currently featured in Hatched: National Graduate Exhibition at PICA.

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