Nanna Bayer

An artist and maker of multiple skills

Born in Finland, rooted in Tasmania. Making vessels that hold light the way the bush holds it after rain.

Practice

Nerikomi vessels

Coloured-clay inlay — the pattern is not applied, it lives inside the clay body. Each slice reveals something different. Each vessel is the record of a decision made in the dark.

Sculpture

Fire and ecological work

Three-metre fire sculptures, penguin nesting modules for the Derwent Estuary, objects that belong to specific places along the Tasmanian coast.

Studio

Classes and workshops

Weekly ceramics in South Hobart — wheel, hand-building, nerikomi inlay. Six people maximum. Slow work, small groups, the same questions asked differently each week.