Kylie Fitt

Making with clay is an ongoing process of metamorphosis, allowing fragility and strength to co-exist in a creative evolution. Clay begins as a fragile and pliable material, and through fire, becomes enduring. This process gives rise to a concurrent transformation for the maker, where confidence, understanding, resilience and a clarity of expression can be found.

My practice reaches for a balance between aesthetics and material research, bringing together drawing, clay, and time. The intentional complexity of the forms suggests the tangle of our human experience. Impossible coils of clay are knotted, knitted and woven together with great physicality and tenderness. The material interactions are reminders of our human interactions – close, loose, free, burdensome, curious, quiet, joyful, wild. For me, these pieces elicit a sensory desire for soothing through raw tactility.