Larissa Warren
Tambourine Mountain, Queensland
Larissa Warren is an established ceramicist, researcher and art teacher. The transformative and technical properties of her ceramic materials drive much of her practice and extends upon her passion for exploiting clay’s possibilities and boundaries. Echoing local landscapes and using raw clays found through field studies and the use of archives, she looks to geological metamorphosis and local histories when developing her concepts. On most days she can be found in her studio, an underground bunker on Tamborine Mountain.
Warren has gained national recognition through gallery exhibitions and media coverage. Recent highlights include a commission and acquisition with HoTA: Home of the Arts producing a major body of work for Here and Now: Gold Coast Triennial, an interview on ABC Radio National’s The Art Show (2022), inclusion in Thomas Hoardley's book: Nerikomi (2023), presenting at Apmere Mparntwe, the 16th Australian Ceramics Triennale, receiving the People’s Choice and Special Acquisition Award for the Clunes Ceramic Award, Art Gallery of Ballarat, VIC (2019) and winning the overall prize Siliceous Award for Ceramic Excellence (2018).
Her research papers are published in the Queensland History Journal, Australiana and Australian Journal of Ceramics. In 2025 – 2029 Warren will present a national touring exhibition titled Shifting Ground with Museums & Galleries Queensland- supported with Visions of Australia funding. The exhibition features 12 mid-career ceramic artists who respond to Warren’s research of local histories and clays. Warren is a currently a candidate in the Masters of Research at UniSQ.
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Image credits
Photo of Larissa Warren in Ratbag Studios, 2023. Photography by Sabine Bannard. Image courtesy of Larissa Warren
SHADOW’S TOUCH, 2025, Larissa Warren. Australian fine porcelain, ceramic stains, local clay, wheel thrown, fired to 1220C -oxidation. Plum: 30x16x16cm, local terracotta: 32.5.x15x15cm. Image courtesy of Larissa Warren.
