RMIT Ceramic Student Association Award:
My practice revolves around material interaction, with a focus on ceramic-based processes. Driven by experimentation, my work is a continuous exploration into the interplay between material, process and space through mutual exchange.
Jasmine Tiger Babayan, ‘Untitled’, 2023, porcelain, cotton, wool, steel, glaze, kiln brick. Photo: Nisha Hunter
Materiality guides my creative practice. I am interested in the unpredictable, relying on chance and material automation to challenge conventional boundaries of the ceramic medium, rejecting an ‘outcome’ or the ‘ideal’ form. My process explores the transmutation of material into the amorphous, abstracting the form into a state of flux. Textiles, combustibles and found ephemera create the framework for these works. Their shapes are cast into clay to then be burnt away during firing, revealing the memory of their previous form. Through acts of deconstructing and reassembling, material is transformed into the undefined. Presenting process-based works, these forms examine the chaos within ulterior spaces that exist within our everyday.
Jasmine Tiger Babayan, ‘Untitled’, 2023, porcelain, cotton, wool, steel, glaze, kiln brick. Photo: Nisha Hunter
