By Lucy Tolan
This vessel is hand-built. The vessel has a textured white matte exterior with black seams. The interior is a black gloss.
These vases continue to explore the aesthetics and making processes developed through Lucy’s body of work ‘at a glance’, created during the summer of 2025–26 and presented in the group exhibition Quid Pro Quo X Younghusband in January 2026. Lucy constructs forms from slabs that are repeatedly stamped with a broken brick tile. She then cuts the forms apart and reassembles them, creating her signature seams.
Midfire clay, underglaze, glaze
The dimensions of this vessel are 19x10.5x10.2cm.
$475
Lucy Tolan (she/her) is a queer artist based in Naarm (Melbourne). Having completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts at RMIT in 2018, she utilises a combination of pinch and slab-building techniques to negotiate concerns of tension and harmony within her pieces. Through juxtaposition of form, colour and texture, Tolan's work catalyses the generative power of of aesthetic contradiction. Her style draws from diverse sources of inspiration - including modernist architecture, textiles and the natural world - to produce romantic encounters between fragility and boldness with each creation.