28cm H, 10cm H - Hand built ceramic (sold as a pair)

Cinda Manins is a ceramic artist based in Narrm/Melbourne. She has been a resident artist at Gasworks Arts Park in Albert Park since 2019 and her practice is hand building abstract, ceramic sculptural forms and vessels, combined with mixed media and digital projections. She has studied a B.A. Fine Art (Ceramics), BA in Anthropology & Film, and a Graduate Diploma in Museum Studies. She is currently working on a public art project with Kangan tertiary institution. (2023-2024)

Her work is held in the Art Gallery of Ballarat and private collections. As an extension of her creative practice, Cinda works as an independent curator and creative producer. Cinda has founded a couple of ARI Galleries, is a founding member of Clay Matters, Clay Workers for the Environment, and contributes to the operation of the Yarra Sculpture Gallery through her work on the organising committee of the Contemporary Sculptors Association.

Artist Statement

Seeking Wisdom, Finding Beauty, Sharing Love.

In my creative practice I explore themes of memory, temporality, permanence, and impermanence as well as the relationship of humanity to the earth.

My creativity is guided by the qualities of my materials, as well as my Humanist and Wabi-Sabi philosophies.

I am committed to using creativity to communicate the hope, beauty, and inspiration I find in the incredible variety of visual splendour offered by the natural world and my art practice is my vehicle to express my love of the Earth, my grief over the effects of climate change, and a recognition that the planet will endure beyond humanity.

I see landscape as the ideal vehicle to explore form, texture and wonder at the scale of time and how Earth stores its memory.

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