Naomi Eller
Untitled 2025
clay, steel
$POA
Naomi Eller works in ceramics and sculpture to explore nature, myth, and the human condition. Translating complex states and feelings into visual form, her works focus on personal discourse and the interplay of internal and external factors that play a part in our construction and destruction. Her sculptures are suggestive in both form and material, evoking strong personal associations in the viewer with particular attention to the allure of the work’s ‘skin’. Archetypes of form hold weight in Eller’s work, where voids and plugs embody a charged psychological significance in relation to lack and excess, desire and becoming.
Untitled is a sprawling series of clay forms embedded in the sand adjacent the mudstone folds at Point Grey. Resembling footprints in various stages of dissolution, these works evoke an awareness of presence and absence through the trace, animating the living bodies - human and animal - that have passed through this site. Drawing on fact and imagination, Eller is interested in igniting the spaces that these imprints will have activated, to reflect the presence and life that lives on in the rich stratification of the land. The clay elements are fired to a high temperature and vitrifcation, a process which chemically activates the material to produce variations in patina and surface that complement the ancient mudstone formations at the site.
Naomi Eller was born in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia where she currently lives and works. She holds a Master of Fine Art from Monash University (2021). Recent solo exhibitions include Index of Transformation, CAVES, Melbourne (2023); Single-hole weight in flux, CassataDrone, Palermo, Italy (2019); Pesi/Weights at Museo d’arts contempranea di Lissone, Milan, Italy (2017); and If Not Bones, Then Stones, Heide Museum of Modern Art (2015). Selected recent group exhibitions include SITEWORKS Bundanon, New South Wales (2023); Women/Matter, SPARC, Venezia (2021); From Will to Form, TarraWarra Biennale, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria (2018); and Setouchi Triennale, Fukutake House, Shodoshima, Japan (2016). Eller’s work is held in prominent public and private collections in Japan, Italy and Australia including the collection of James Mollison AO, The National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of South Australia, and the Shepparton Art Museum.
Image: Untitled 2025 (detail). Photo Simon Lawrie.
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