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Tom Summers

Brisbane, Queensland / Adelaide, South Australia

Tom Summers is a queer ceramic artist and product designer who is currently based in Meanjin/Brisbane. Originally starting his design career and education in fashion design, He found himself yearning for a stronger and deeper connection with the objects around us, and one that felt less disposable. After experimenting in several mediums, he found a real affinity with slab building with clay, since the cutting out of slabs and then making it into a 3D shape involves a lot of the same thinking as pattern making for clothing.

A recent alumnus of JamFactory Associate Program in the Ceramics Studio, Summers has refined his handbuilding practice on a surreal and personal reflection of the built environment that surrounds us, while also exploring colour through the use of lurid pigment-infused clay. His pieces reference recognisable architectural features and motifs, but sit outside of known markers of time and place, seeming simultaneously futuristic and relic-like in an expression of almost unreachable utopian vision.

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Photo of Tom Summers and his ceramic artwork, 2023.
Photography by Efrain Cabrera Mendoza. Image courtesy of Tom Summers.

Steiner Monument, 2023, Tom Summers. Unglazed porcelain paper clay. 18 x 29 x 18cm. Image courtesy of Tom Summers.

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Looking In and Through...

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