I am thrilled to have won the Klytie Pate Ceramic Award for 2018 for my work, Midnight Sun, Fiskars. Director of Geelong Art Gallery, Jason Smith, awarded the main prize making the following comments:
"The evocation of the Finnish forests is potent in two quite differently worked and glazed surfaces. The scale of the vessels seems to echo the trunk or main branch of a tree, so for me there was a strong resolution between the formal and conceptual integrity of these works. They have great presence and kept drawing me back."