DAMION FULLER

2025 collection- Last of the Tide Riders.

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Damion Fuller is an accomplished and widely-exhibited ceramist from New South Wales, Australia, whose modest-yet-stately, vessels emblazoned with toothy sharks and other coastal dwellers, celebrate his passion for the ocean; its sciences and mythologies. Fuller’s creations are concise, unadorned forms, devoid of handles and curly cues. Their handsomely modern silhouettes are reminiscent of the paintings of Giorgio Morandi. Before firing his work with cobalt slip, the artist draws into the raw clay with an intuitive line, depicting solitary figures, fish and other maritime subjects whose scale frequently wraps the form entirely, making for a type of rotational interaction with his work. They are delightful and yet serious. Optimistic even in their monasticism. - Alex Weinstein, 2025.

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Damion says- "When I was eleven years old I walked into a newsagent to buy a copy of a Rugby League magazine for a social studies project. The newsagent said "Rugby League Week" is sold out but if it's magazines you need you can have these for free..." and she handed me a small pile of Surfing World magazines. My preteen soul was swept away by the images of bronzed Greek gods doing extraordinarily graceful things on towering crystal waves framed by palm trees and volcanos, watched on by sublime goddesses in crocheted bikinis. And so it began."

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