The "Sunshine Baskets" series captures the experience of vast fields of canola crop, wattle in bloom, cockatoo crests, and a good yoke. Hand-built and once-fired, these ceramic vessels explicitly display the marks of making and reminiscing on favourite woven heirlooms.

Using ‘hand sense’ and ‘attuned focus’, Robyn engages in dialogue around materiality, process, time, and affect found at her various making sites. Robyn’s sculptures and installations seek to experience the world as embodied and connected. From this perspective, she folds making, teaching and collaboration to realise the potential of contemporary ceramics.

Working respectfully on the lands of the Wurundjeri and Taungurung peoples, Robyn Phelan’s artwork is grounded in studio ceramics and encompasses sculpture, drawing, writing, photography, and installation practices.

Robyn received her PhD (2024) in the field of contemporary craft and material research from RMIT University. She has exhibited widely in Australian museums and galleries, currently lecturing in ceramics, history and cultures and professional practice in the School of Art, RMIT University. She mentors in ceramics at the Slow Clay Centre. Robyn has been writing and participating critically in contemporary art and craft since 1997.

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