Gathered Shadows

Commissioned by HoTA: Home of the Arts for Here and Now: Gold Coast Triennial 2024

In Gathered Shadows, Larissa Warren transcends decorative ceramics, creating vessels that weave together time, personal history, and place.

Larissa uncovers and collects layers of earth, embedding unique structures into her work using organic textures, patterns, wild clays, and stained porcelains. The clay for each pair of vessels, has been unearthed from one of 12 local locations – mainly educational campuses. Nestled alongside each other the pair features a coloured porcelain vessel, echoing Larissa’s vibrant Gold Coast upbringing during the 1980s and 1990s and a local clay ‘shadow’ vessel that geologically represents a much earlier form of time and place.

The pairings tell the story of the Gold Coast’s unique geology, merging personal history with the natural world.