Emma Craig, Grevillea Study (ghost print) 2023, multi-plate etching on Fabriano, 50 x 70cm. Photo courtesy of the artist.

MY HEART FEELS THE EARTH THROUGH MY HANDS

Emma Craig’s residency project is centered around a material-led investigation into clay, focusing on its tactile, responsive, and transformative properties. Developed in response to the natural landscape of the City of Swan, particularly the shifting edges of the Swan River, this project explores how the body engages with clay through repeated, process-based gestures. She uses porcelain and ceramic forming techniques to trace the physicality of making, where pressure, rhythm, and presence are recorded directly in the surface of the material.

This tactile approach highlights the meditative and restorative qualities of making, as well as the role of the artist’s hand in shaping and responding to place. Developed ahead of the international ceramics Triennale in Fremantle, the work offers a poetic reflection on site, process, and sensory experience.

Emma Craig is a multidisciplinary artist working across printmaking and ceramics. Her practice is grounded in tactile engagement, where the act of making becomes a way to investigate materiality, rhythm, and the body’s relationship to process. Through repeated actions and physical labour, she explores how haptic and tacit knowledge are embedded in materials. Her work often responds to the environments she inhabits, engaging with the tension between domestic and natural spaces.