Alyssa Nuttall is a ceramic artist based in Naarm/Melbourne. Raised in Western Australia, she has developed her practice through a slow, deliberate engagement with the fragile environments that sustain life.
Working with clay as both material and collaborator, she draws on its geological memory to reflect shifting Australian ecologies and the pressures shaping them, including drought, bushfire, coastal erosion, and coral bleaching. Her forms emerge through carving, layering, and reconstruction, guided by balance, weight, and the material's own limits. Soft asymmetry, carved strata, and subtle shifts in structure allow each piece to sit between stability and fragility - resilience and collapse.
Approached as quiet presences within everyday life, her vessels hold traces of ecological grief alongside endurance. Considered incomplete until encountered, each work invites attention, care, and a closer awareness of environmental change in lived space.