About

Aurora Elwell is an emerging ceramic artist working on Yuggera Ugarapul lands, creating sculptural vessels that explore her own identity. Elwell meditates on her emotions during the making process and translates unspoken thoughts into tangible objects. Her ongoing body of work, The Body Vessel, is an investigation of deep emotions such as desire, depression, self-consciousness and ego. 

 

Aurora graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Arts Second Class Honours degree in 2023 (University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba). She teaches workshops and throwing courses at the Darling Downs Pottery Club, Toowoomba, as well as engaging with the clay community as cohost of Birds of Clay, an Australian ceramics focused podcast. Aurora is listed as a finalist in the North Queensland Ceramic Awards 2024 and received an honourable mention and exhibited in the Emerging World Stage exhibition at Clay Gulgong (2024), and most recently was selected as an exhibiting artist in Artisan's yearly exhibition, Unleashed (2024), which celebrates Queensland's promising early-career artist practitioners.