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ARTIST STATEMENT

“My sculptural practice explores the elemental power of clay—earth shaped by fire into enduring form. Across cultures, volcanoes have symbolized thresholds between worlds—openings to the afterlife, dwelling places of gods, or passageways for souls. In these myths, fire is not only destructive, but also a force that purifies and forges.
Clay and volcanic fire are kin. Both begin as earth, transformed by elemental heat into something lasting. The act of shaping and firing clay becomes an echo of these myths—a ritual of transformation where matter crosses from one state to another.
The figures I create do not seek realism, but embody the tension between containment and eruption, surface and depth. They stand like relics of a volcanic past, marked by what has moved through them—objects unearthed from the thresholds where pressure and transformation converge.
The earth opens. Fire speaks."

BIO

Big pictures and small details are the operandi of Jeremy Vander Noord. After many years living in NYC Jeremy has returned to country Victoria with a deep reflection on his multidisciplinary art practice that has involved printmaking, leatherwork and textiles, jewellry, painting, photography and sculpture.