Paige Phillips is an emerging ceramicist from the South Coast of NSW. A recent graduate from the National Art School.The material processes she uses aim to capture a particular moment or place in time. In doing so, offer the viewer a token of a visceral memory. Often, this is in the form of a repeated soft note, a hesitant brush or hand mark. Cumulatively, the series as a whole begins to tell a story. Although inspired by personal thoughts and feelings, the works are ultimately experienced uniquely each time someone else’s story fills the voids.

In Phillips' recent series ‘Bois’, the ceramic work utilises resources of the Illawarra region in a manner informed by traditional Japanese technique and aesthetic. In conjunction with experimenting with wood and bone ash, she has developed pot shapes that emphasise the glaze melt. The aim is to evoke a mood that captures its locality. Bringing attention to the permanence of man's ecological decisions by paralleling the staining of land and its wild life with the irreversible human touch, frozen melt of running glaze on a pot, or a thumb print in wet clay. Thereby introducing emotion into an area that is usually dealt with in the ethical abstract.