2025 Muswellbrook Art Prize

John Deere, My Dear

Adrienne Richards

John Deere, My Dear, 2024 glazed stoneware ceramic 30 x 46 x 6 cm

I use ceramics to explore ideas around humans on the planet and our interactions with the natural world.

I wonder what fragments we might leave behind, what keepsakes we might cherish as we look to the future. 

My plates draw on the tradition of blue & white ceramics to tell stories and evoke memories. I saw this tractor sitting out under a big sky and have recreated it with an ornate boarder of cotton pods, wallaby backbones and other pressings made after a recent farm visit.