- 2026 participant Common Ground, a world in ceramics, Terra 40! Old Church Delft
Forms from which life has been reduced to a delicate, ghostly residue. This effect is enhanced by the pure white translucency of the material. Each piece has a quiet, ghostly presence. Mahala Hill draws inspiration from the Australian coastal and bush landscapes of her youth. As a ceramic artist, she developed her own technique. She dips plants in clay slip and then fires them into whimsical shell shapes. Hill then experiments with glazes, thus guiding toward deliberate unpredictability.
With your nose close to the organic forms, you are amazed at how paper-thin and seemingly fragile they are. Anyone who wishes can see in them a cautionary message to treat our earth more carefully.
'With Bone China clay from Australia, I feel a strong connection. It has a profound metaphorical link to death and loss, both in name and in composition: it consists of at least 50% ash from animal bones.'
