Layers and Lines - Debbie Pryor

Layers and Lines by SA artist Debbie Pryor - Finalist in the 2024 Heysen Prize for Landscape.

Layers and Lines speaks to the materiality of the landscape, the layers of history, the marks of time. The raw, unglazed ceramic surface has been rolled, squished, dried, crunched, shaped by hand, with finger marks remaining, organic and imperfect. These actions represent the South Australian waterways, rivers and sea, sand and soil. The lines left by the tide, the marks made by insects, animals and humans, the layers of rock and mud. In the centre of the piece, next to crunchy clay is a soft circle, lightly burnished by hand using a glossy smooth rock from Ngangkiparri, the women’s river of the Onkaparinga on the South Australian south coast. The coastline and riverbeds are lined with stones burnished by wind and water over time and this process of making connects the actions in nature and the actions of hand, showing our interconnectedness with nature.

Materials: Ceramic
Dimensions (cm): 29 H x 21 W x 3 D

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