2025 Muswellbrook Art Prize

G’day Your Majesty!

Nani Puspasari

G’day Your Majesty!, 2025 ceramic, glazed earthenware, gold lustre 28 x 20 x 20 cm

This ceramic vase captures a pivotal moment in Australian history through hand-painted scenes from Queen Elizabeth’s 1954 Royal Tour, redrawn from archival photographs. Inspired by vintage Australian magazines, the artist, an Indonesian immigrant, explores national identity through ceramics. The vase becomes a storytelling medium, juxtaposing colonial history with a migrant’s perspective, inviting reflection on Australia’s evolving identity through memory, culture, and transformation.