ROBYN PHELAN
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Robyn Phelan is an artist, writer, and educator who lives and works in Naarm, Melbourne. Her practice includes sculptural ceramics, drawing, fieldwork, and installation. Robyn responds to a range of different sites that connect with nature or invest in physical habitation. She employs an intimate, embodied touch to her sculptural objects. She creates work that questions contemporary social, political, and environmental issues from an Australian perspective.
Robyn has created work for many group shows and more recently solo exhibitions. Robyn has been shortlisted for many curated and award exhibitions such as The Australian Ceramics Association, the Manningham Contemporary Ceramics Award, Wyndham Art Prize & the Klytie Pate Award. She has been awarded an Australia Council grant and various RMIT travel grants.
Robyn's professional background is in visual arts education, museums, curation, and management. She has been writing about contemporary art, craft, and ceramics for more than two decades. At RMIT she teaches ceramics and professional practice in the School of Art, where she is also a Ph.D. candidate. Her practice-led research questions the intersections of site, ceramics, and the body.
ROBYN PHELAN
Remembering Tallarook tors (in lockdown), 2020
hand-built Keane's porcelain paper clay, Tallarook granitic sands, wood-fired with Black Wattle
26 x 12 x 17cm
$ 680
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