Alana Wilson was born in 1989 in Canberra, Australia and currently lives and works in Sydney...
Palimpsest (Tin), 2021,
porcelain with magnesium and tin stoneware glaze,
42 × 42 × 14 cm
Gestural Pentaptych, 2021—2021,
porcelain with stoneware glaze,
17.5 × 140 × 1.5 cm
Map of Fragility I, 2023, stoneware with earthenware glaze and ink, 36 × 35 × 35 cm
Earth Jar, 2023, stoneware with magnesium glaze and shell flashing, 34 × 39 × 39 cm
Map of Fragility II, 2023, stoneware with manganese markings and shell flashing, 18 × 21 × 20 cm
Map of Fragility VI (flashed TB), 2023, stoneware with manganese dioxide wash, salt flashing, fired on shells, re-assembled post-firing, 6 × 8 × 8 cm
Map of Fragility VI (flashed TB), 2023, stoneware with manganese dioxide wash, salt flashing, fired on shells, re-assembled post-firing, 6 × 8 × 8 cm
Map of Fragility V (Fe₂O₃ TB), 2023, terracotta with black iron oxide, red iron oxide, manganese dioxide washes, fired in sand saggar, re-assembled post-firing, 6 × 9 × 8 cm
Map of Fragility IV (TB), 2023, stoneware with chromium oxide, cobalt carbonate, manganese dioxide, red iron oxide washes, re-assembled post-firing, 7 × 8.5 × 8.5 cm
Map of Fragility III (Cr₂O₃ TB), 2023, terracotta with chromium oxide, cobalt carbonate, red iron oxide washes, re-assembled post-firing, 5.5 × 7.5 × 7 cm
Shell Saggar TB, 2023, stoneware tea bowl with shell flashing, fired in shell saggar, 7.5 × 11 × 11 cm
Alana Wilson, Touch Study 021 (Magnesium Light Spine), Porcelain with stoneware glaze, 25 × 16 × 3 cm
Alana Wilson, Touch Studies, installation view, ReadingRoom, Melbourne, 2020
Alana Wilson, Touch Studies, installation view, ReadingRoom, Melbourne, 2020
Alana Wilson(Three Artists, Forms, Colours), installation view, ReadingRoom, Melbourne, 2020
Alana Wilson(Three Artists, Forms, Colours), installation view, ReadingRoom, Melbourne, 2020
Alana Wilson, Touch Studies, installation view, ReadingRoom, Melbourne, 2020
Alana Wilson, Touch Studies, installation view, ReadingRoom, Melbourne, 2020
Alana Wilson(Three Artists, Forms, Colours), installation view, ReadingRoom, Melbourne, 2020
Alana Wilson(Three Artists, Forms, Colours), installation view, ReadingRoom, Melbourne, 2020
Alana Wilson(Three Artists, Forms, Colours), installation view, ReadingRoom, Melbourne, 2020
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Alana Wilson’s work is visceral, intimate, and tactile, drawing upon natural, biographical, art-historical and anthropological sources. With a practice involving philosophical inquiry and material investigation, using primarily ceramic, also bronze, printmaking, and photography.

 

Forming a visual and conceptual lineage across mediums and processes, the Australian-born, New Zealand-raised artist questions the relationship between humans and their environments and the scale at which we exist in nature: the macrocosm and interconnectedness of all life, from the intimate to the universal.

 

Alana Wilson (b. 1989 in Canberra, Australia) lives and works in Sydney, Australia. Select recent solo exhibitions include Passages, Gallery Crossing, Minokamo, Japan (2022); Alana Wilson at Potter’s House Mallorca, Islas Baleares, Spain (2022); Planets, Mercies, & The Flow (惑星、慈愛、そして絶間ない流れ), Gallery Crossing, Minokamo, Japan (2020). Select group exhibitions include Perspective, Gallery Crossing, Minokamo, Japan (2023); Smoke, ReadingRoom, Naarm / Melbourne, Australia (2023); Outside In, Laree Payne Gallery, Hamilton, New Zealand (2022); Earthbound, Goulburn Regional Gallery, Goulburn, Australia (2021); (Three Artists, Forms, Colours), ReadingRoom, Naarm / Melbourne, Australia (2020). Alana received both her Bachelor of Fine Art (Ceramics) and Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) from National Art School, Sydney (2011) and (2012).