Our first interview!!!

In this episode we are interviewing the all time great human Peta Berghofer. We speak about many topics including working with clay, inspiration and design processes, teaching and artist residencies.

Peta Berghofer is an Australian artist based on Giabal and Jarowair lands/Toowoomba, Queensland. Working with clay as her medium and the vessel as her form, Peta creates both ceramic sculptures and functional wares for daily use. Her work references historically familiar form and function, but she disrupts these expectations of traditional vessel-based, ceramic art practices.

Whether functional or functionless, Peta’s self-referential ceramics are most often presented as the same body of work, exhibited as abstracted still-life installations. Here she plays with distinctions between gallery and domestic spaces, engaging with historic and contemporary tensions between art, craft, and design.

Check out Peta's work below
https://www.petaberghofer.com/
https://www.instagram.com/petaberghofer/

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