Australian artist Fiona Ryan-Clark’s journey into ceramics was initially inspired by magician figures from Pueblo cultures in New Mexico.

The clown-like figures, slip between worlds, and remind humans of essential wisdom, of the really important elements of being alive as a human, which busy human minds often overlook.

Seeing these figures, particularly the work of Roxanne Swentzell, was pivotal in Fiona’s development as an artist. Fiona’s work explores shape shifters and magical creatures, often androgenous, or those involved in disguise and performance whose ultimate purpose is to expose something profound about the human condition. To emohase humanness, through reference to otherness.

Fiona lives in the Blue Mountains outside Sydney in Australia and has trained with internationally acclaimed figurative sculptor Cristina Cordova. She was previously a writer and teacher.

She loves myth and legend and themes which reappear across time and cultures. She attempts to reflect this universality in her work and sometimes will pay homage to particular stories or characters in her work.