28 AUGUST – 20 SEPTEMBER 2026
Opening Preview: 6pm Thursday 27 August
In Land’s Edge, two expert ceramicists and friends, Sarah Ormonde and Jo Victoria, present their latest work. Land’s Edge explores the meeting point of cliffs and water, soft sand and jagged rock—the coastal fringe that shapes the lives and practices of Sarah and Jo. Bringing together large sentinel forms and delicate porcelain fragments, the exhibition reflects the shifting, dynamic nature of this landscape. Sarah turns her attention to the headlands, seeking “to be held in the heart of stillness where nothing is still[1]”. While Jo is drawn to the surf, “where air meets water, vision and touch become entwined”.
Together, Sarah and Jo use the gallery as a space to explore how their distinct practices, grounded in the landscape, can evoke the feeling of standing on a rocky headland, wind and salt against the skin, and to more deeply understand the passage of time revealed by this ever-changing landscape.
[1] Sixty Degrees North: Around the World in Search of Home, Malachy Tallack
The exhibition will be opened by local ceramicist Bev Hogg at a free preview event 6.00pm Thursday 27 August 2026.
ARTIST BIOS
Jo Victoria began her career as an anthropologist documenting cultural landscapes in Australian desert environments, working with communities whose connection to Country deeply informed her understanding of place. She later studied ceramics at the Australian National University School of Art and Design, completing a Diploma of Ceramics and a Master of Visual Art in Ceramics. In her clay explorations, Jo’s interest in cultural landscapes and connections between people and place found expression. She found that the materiality of porcelain lent itself to surfaces reminiscent of fossil-like structures, bone fragments and other foraged things she collected in the coastal environments where she lived.
Sarah Ormonde started life as a painter and came to ceramics around thirty years ago. She has spent her subsequent career combining her painting skills and pots to create work about the landscapes in which she has lived. This has led to close observation and interest in how the landscape reveals its history: how every movement is mapped within the landscape. In the studio this interest is used to create forms and surfaces that help tell that story. The forms remain functional, but reference shapes–seen or felt–within each place. The surfaces are scored, scratched, inlayed, scraped, painted, and drawn on with natural minerals, oxides, and clays. Sarah has exhibited throughout Australia and internationally. She has a degree in painting from Curtin University, Perth, and a master’s degree in ceramics from the Australian National University, Canberra.
Sarah and Jo have remained friends since meeting at ANU. Their shared love of clay and the landscape form a basis for their ongoing friendship and provides the starting point for this exhibition.
Image: Jo Victoria Kelp fossil group 2026, porcelain.
