Rebellion Vase

Rebellion Vase is a hand-painted sculptural vessel inspired by the tension between belonging and self-definition. The imagery draws from personal memories of childhood - early mobile phone screens glowing in dark rooms, everyday domestic objects, and the quiet weight of a Catholic upbringing that shaped both comfort and constraint. Threaded through these familiar symbols is a black sheep, standing apart as a marker of individuality and gentle rebellion.

I chose the vase form because it exists between function and object, much like memory itself - useful, fragile, and deeply symbolic. The hand-painted surface invites close viewing, where brushstrokes, texture, and narrative reveal themselves slowly. I hope viewers feel a sense of recognition and reflection, considering their own inherited traditions and moments of quiet divergence. This work is intended to be lived with, holding space for flowers, stories, and the evolving relationship between past and self.

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Coris Evans is a visual artist based on Bundjalung Country in Byron Bay, Australia. Her practice explores memory and longing, using familiar objects and symbols to trace how personal history lingers in everyday life.

After losing her mother to cancer as a teenager, memory became something to return to - a place where time slowed, where tenderness endured, and where her mother still lived. Evans’ paintings and sculptural works draw on ordinary objects as emotional anchors: a well-worn mug kept beyond its use, an old mobile phone once filled with teenage secrets, the lingering scent of a parent’s hair product. These details become quiet carriers of feeling, transforming intimate memory into shared experience.

Working primarily with sustainable and recycled materials, Evans views care for the environment as inseparable from care for memory itself. Her process is slow and deliberate, guided by responsibility - to material, to narrative, and to the world her work inhabits. Through her practice, Evans invites viewers to reflect on what we hold onto, what we lose, and the objects we return to when we want to remember who we were.