Lynda Draper is a ceramicist whose work pushes the limits of the medium. In her work often you will see narrow  tubular forms that have been described as drawing like. Draper studied education and ceramics at UNSW, she is currently head of ceramics at the National Art School.

Draper is quite process oriented, finding that her best works evolve as she works allowing herself to exist in an almost subconscious reverie as described by Sonia Legge in an article titled “Home and also somewhere else very far away: Lynda Draper”. Taking this into account draper often will only create preliminary sculptures when she is without clay. Looking at the construction of the work itself Draper uses a variety of enamels, glazes and lustres on the surface of works. To build the works she uses handbuilding techniques such as coiling and pinching. Due to the delicate nature of the forms that she creates she often builds directly on a shelf that can be placed in the kiln to be filed.

A final interesting aspect of Draper’s work is that she has spoken about how some of her work is brought about by memories/personal experiences. She has spoken specifically about how some of her works were brought about from revisiting her childhood home and how working on the pieces allowed her to confront objects of her past that were once distressing to her. This is interesting to know because her works and the shape and colors used in them evoke different emotions.

Sources

http://lyndadraper.com/bio.html

https://artistprofile.com.au/lynda-draper/
https://issuu.com/sullivanstrumpf/docs/summer_2020/s/11305982