Artist Profile: Kerryn Levy
Adelaide-based Kerryn Levy is a ceramic artist who aims to bring people together through a shared love of clay, landscape and beautiful objects.
Kerryn is inspired by the natural world, the human body and the connection between the two. Using traditional handbuilding techniques of pinching, smoothing and folding clay into a functional shape, Kerryn makes sculptural vessels reminiscent of human, animal and botanical bodies, that nestle and dance with one another when paired or grouped, their surfaces designed to reflect the colours and textures of the Australian landscape.
Kerryn’s vessels bear the human marks of their composition meaning they carry impressions of the fingers, nails and muscle that moulded them. 'I love that the marks my fingers leave in the clay during the making process are visible at the very end in the finished piece', Kerryn said. Her earthy, fluid constructions look as though they might have been buried in the clay all along, awaiting the right practitioner to come along and reveal their final forms.
Having studied a Bachelor of Visual Arts at UniSA and completed the Associate Training Program at JamFactory Contemporary Craft and Design, Kerryn continues to practice out of her home studio in Strathalbyn, where her work bench is surrounded with photographs and collected pieces from nature from which she draws inspiration.
