Luke Ryan O’Connor, Green & Black vessel with pink & gold chunks, 2020. Stoneware, Glaze, Lustre, 27 x 22 x 22cm. Courtesy: the artist and Artereal Gallery, Sydney.

Back from outer space, its title extracted from Gloria Gaynor’s queer anthem, I Will Survive, is an equally defiant and triumphant paean from ceramic artist Luke Ryan O’Connor.

The artist acknowledges his ceramic creations as “a reckoning of his queer experience. “… a celebration of interruption and the unconventional… and a site for experimentation.” O’Connor approaches his sculptures in a playful manner, incorporating wheel thrown forms with appendages cast from moulds. The moulds themselves are recycled from waste – chunks of broken brick, tile and Styrofoam. The resulting appendages are reborn in gaudy sheen, dolled-up in gold and platinum lustre, and reimagined.

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