Photography courtesy of the Adrien Centoni

Helena Sinclair

Hello there.

I am a ceramic artist practicing in Avalon, Sydney.

I like to explore a range of ideas within my studio practice. My functional work I think of as blank canvases that I can hand paint illustrative designs on to and that you can eat off! I like to experiment with sculpture particularly with quirky, curvey vessels as well as sculpting representational and realistic forms.  The common thread that weaves through my work there is more often than (k)not some type of cheeky humour, weird quirkiness or word play while incorporating colour and femininity.

Conceptually I like to explore my place within the world, ideas about feminism and the body as well as societal ideals about beauty. My most recent series of work has been to investigate abject materials that have been removed from the body and re-contextualised through ceramic sculpture.

CV

Exhibitions

  • Manly Art Gallery Express Yourself 2011

  • Manly Library Self Portrait Series 2012

  • RMIT City Campus group exhibition Mobjects 2017

  • Gertrude Contemporary - WNTR Collective Became; Becoming; Becomes 2017

  • Craft Cubed Around the Table 2017

  • Old Melbourne Gaol Closure pop-up exhibition 18th of September 2018

  • RMIT Graduate Exhibition 20th of November 2018

  • Wandering Room Tiny World Reunion March 2019

  • First Site Gallery Semiotics May 2019

  • Tasmania Ceramics Triennale Dear mud, with love 2019

  • Wandering Room Victoria Street, Victoria September 2019

  • RMIT Honours Graduate Exhibition Material becoming the body, the body becoming material December 2019

  • Counihan Gallery Language and Liberty 2020

  • Wandering Room (solo show) Material becoming the body, the body becoming material 2021

  • For your Pleasure Functional, Sculptural, Decorative 2024

Awards and Achievements

2017 Women with Words (online blog) featured artist of the month

2020 Finalist for the Moreland City Council at Counihan Gallery Language and Liberty

2025 The Journal of Australian Ceramics Vol 64 No 2 group exhibition pages 16-24.

Education

  • Master of Art Therapy - currently ongoing

  • RMIT Honours 2020

  • RMIT Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts) Ceramic Object Based Practice 2019