Artisan Potter

As a kid Kari played with terracotta in her Dad’s art studio. It never quite fired to her liking! So she re-explored ceramics in 2000, achieving an Advanced Diploma of Ceramics at Sunshine Coast TAFE.

Her ceramic artwork has won awards and been exhibited in SE Queensland and Japan. Her installations have appeared in dance concerts, at environmental festivals and in regional & commercial galleries.Finding clay has been a home coming; a medium in which to blend many of her creative skills. Working from a home pottery studio, Kari explores a light hearted feminine view of an ancient her story of clay, re-examining and perhaps reclaiming cuneiform writing for women. Kari’s studio work explores techniques of hand building and wheel thrown work and engages different firing methods including high temperature wood firings over several days, gas fired stoneware, and low fired surfaces. Her connection to environment is seen in much of her work, especially in the simplicity of form and variety of surfaces. 

Kari is currently a professional Marriage Celebrant and a performing musician as well as ceramic artist. She specialises in combining art-forms; dance, music and ceramics. In recent years she exhibited at the Noosa Regional gallery in a solo show, at Fusions Gallery, Brisbane, and Barratt Books Gallery, NSW, featuring works themed under the title Cunei Forms, referencing ancient Phonecian cuneiform text. And more recently, intricately coloured and carved porcelain pieces. Kari has worked in a variety of professions including pottery coordinator at Woodfordia, lecturer at QUT, event director for Maroochy Waterwatch, performer and workshop co-ordinator and teacher, and has done some unusual things; been a concert-organ grinder at Victoria Markets, a wardrobe assistant at Victorian Opera and performs as a frog!