Danielle Segal

Danielle Segal is an Australian ceramic artist whose work explores the complex relationship between fragility and permanence in the natural world. Influenced by her deep connection to extreme landscapes such as Antarctica and Central Australia, Segal’s practice explores geological time, memory, and the textures of the earth.

The rocks and desert formations of Central Australia inspire the pieces in this series. The landscape there reveals itself in layers, strata of strength and fragility built up over immense periods of time. Using laminated stoneware clay, she echoes those natural processes of accumulation and erosion. Each form is built slowly, then finished with dry glazes in the reds, ochres, and purples of the desert. The surfaces often respond unpredictably, with glazes that break, fuse, or shift in firing, gestures that mirror the elemental forces shaping the land itself.