I think about clay as a material portal to the past. Sculpting out of clay is a way for me to quietly and intimately hold history.

My pieces are all handbuilt, either from slab or press moulds. After the clay has been hand stained and rolled, I layer and sometimes whittle to create facets, collage, inlay or engrave. Each piece shows my hand. I come to pottery through a painting practice so I focus a lot on developing my palette of clays and ways to create surface and line. I use locally sourced stoneware clay that I fire at cone 6 using homemade clear glazes.

I work across a range of applications. I make tableware, sculpture, furniture and tiles in my studio in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa NZ.

For all tile enquiries please visit Obery to view my samples https://oberystudio.com/pages/studio-lucy-mcmillan