What Endures

$1,800.00

What Endures

A hand-built sculptural vessel exploring endurance, memory and the quiet persistence of life.

Encircling the form, stag beetles appear as guardians and witnesses — symbols of strength, resilience and transformation. Repeated around the body of the vessel, they become a meditation on what survives: through change, through hardship, through time.

The warm metallic surface evokes the feeling of an excavated relic, while the rhythmic ornamentation and native insect motifs speak to cycles found throughout the natural world. Like much of my work, the vessel sits between artifact and offering — a contemporary object carrying echoes of older rituals and ways of seeing.

Created coil by coil over many hours, What Endures reflects an ongoing fascination with sacred object-making, permanence, and the traces of human presence embedded within handmade things.

Dimensions: 496mm (H) × 260mm (W) × 266mm (D)
Weight: 5.1kg
Materials: Hand-built stoneware, glaze and underglaze
Year: 2026
Edition: One-of-a-kind original

Signed by the artist • Certificate of Authenticity included • Professionally packed in museum grade packaging and fully insured worldwide

Each vessel exists as a unique original and will not be reproduced.

Created as a sculptural artwork. While capable of functioning as a vessel, this work is intended primarily as a collectible ceramic object.

What Endures

A hand-built sculptural vessel exploring endurance, memory and the quiet persistence of life.

Encircling the form, stag beetles appear as guardians and witnesses — symbols of strength, resilience and transformation. Repeated around the body of the vessel, they become a meditation on what survives: through change, through hardship, through time.

The warm metallic surface evokes the feeling of an excavated relic, while the rhythmic ornamentation and native insect motifs speak to cycles found throughout the natural world. Like much of my work, the vessel sits between artifact and offering — a contemporary object carrying echoes of older rituals and ways of seeing.

Created coil by coil over many hours, What Endures reflects an ongoing fascination with sacred object-making, permanence, and the traces of human presence embedded within handmade things.

Dimensions: 496mm (H) × 260mm (W) × 266mm (D)
Weight: 5.1kg
Materials: Hand-built stoneware, glaze and underglaze
Year: 2026
Edition: One-of-a-kind original

Signed by the artist • Certificate of Authenticity included • Professionally packed in museum grade packaging and fully insured worldwide

Each vessel exists as a unique original and will not be reproduced.

Created as a sculptural artwork. While capable of functioning as a vessel, this work is intended primarily as a collectible ceramic object.

Each vessel is hand-built individually and carries the subtle variations inherent to handmade work. These qualities are considered part of the character and authenticity of the piece. Although many works are capable of functioning as vessels, they are created first and foremost as sculptural objects — intended to be lived with, contemplated and collected as artworks. Their value lies not in utility alone, but in the stories, symbolism and human presence embedded within their making.