Jellyfish

When I heard jelly fish are moving around the world to polluted waters and 'cleaning' our oceans, my respect and admiration of them being 'other worldly' grew. I wanted to celebrate these marine animals who have been around even before dinosaurs! My work is a celebration of nature and often highlights environmental themes.
Made from Porcelain slip (body of the jelly fish) and glazed with a sea-green glaze with porcelain embossed pattern. It has varied green and turquoise fabric tentacles, suspended from a clear perspex plate inside the body of the jellyfish, longest tentacle is 150cm . Suspended by a 40cm transparent nylon thread with a stainless steel hanging loop. Total length from stainless steel loop to longest tentacle is approximately 190cm.

Follow

Anthea is an environmental ceramic sculptural artist who lives and works on the North Coast of NSW. She has a Diploma of Ceramics and has an Advanced Diploma of Visual Arts majoring in Ceramics. She has been a finalist in ‘Foot Square’ Aspire Gallery Brisbane 2022, Urunga small sculpture art prize 2022.Ingenuity Small sculpture prize 2021, and Little Things art prize 2021, She has had a Solo show in The Cube Gallery in Byron Bay, as well as several group shows including the Lismore Regional Gallery (Lismore, NSW), Aspire Gallery (Brisbane), Eltham Gallery (Eltham, NSW), Mist Gallery (Cabarita, NSW) Elevator A.R.I and Serpentine Gallery (Lismore, NSW).

She draws her inspiration from the natural world where she finds endless stimulation and beauty. She strives to capture the magnificence of her surroundings often exploring environmental themes. She has developed sculptural objects based on seed pod forms, coral forms and marine animals.

Anthea uses various hand building and slip casting methods. She employs a range of surface techniques including layering glazes, sgraffito, carving, underglaze painting and a variety of firing processes. Anthea’s sculptural pieces
stimulate discussions concerning humanity’s relationship with nature.