Name: Ebony Russell
Item: Ebony Russell
Author: Australian Ceramics

Ebony Russell is an Australian artist based in Sydney. She is a recent graduate of The National Art School, Sydney, where she completed a Masters of Fine Arts in Ceramics.

In 2018, Russell was selected as a finalist in the biannual Sydney Living Museum – Meroogal Women’s Art Prize and was also awarded the International Franz Rising Star Award for excellence in porcelain, which resulted in a residency in Jingdezhen, China in 2019. More recently her work has been selected as a finalist in the 2019 Muswellbrook Art Prize, the 2019 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize and again as a finalist in the 2019 Franz Rising Star Award. She is currently a featured artist in the Australian Ceramic Journal – Porcelain Edition.

Russell’s recent series of ceramic works, ‘Piped Dreams’ explores notions of nostalgia and desire as they are imbued in collected objects. Using an experimental construction method to produce sculptures made solely of piping, a technique usually reserved for the cake decorating craft of royal icing, Russell has developed a way creating forms that seem to defy their own making.

Releasing the decorative detail from a foundation or form usually needed for adherence or an anchor point for attachment, Russell incorporates confessional and autobiographical elements into her artworks to recreating her lived experience through a feminised craft.

Piped Dreams Studio is where Russell creates one of a kind and limited edition objects often with a functional use.

Ebony Russell

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