Ceramicist Amelia Lynch has been selected as finalist in the Burwood Art Prize for her work Dawn Gifted Me the Stars.
Lynch is a dynamic ceramicist whose tactile exploration of form and surface responds to the natural environment, casting conceptual and visual links with geological phenomena such as rock erosion and stratification. Through formal experimentation with oxides, stains, crackle, crawl and crater glazes, Lynch’s painterly surfaces evoke fragments of flora and fauna. In these biomorphic and geomorphic forms, personal experiences of the landscape collide with shape, scale, and glaze technologies to create sculptures that are intuitive and free, yet refined and technical.
The Burwood Art Prize is an annual acquisitive prize open to Sydney-based artists. For 2026, artists have been asked to respond to the theme 'I Am Here'. This year marks a new partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art with senior curator Pedro de Almeida judging the prize alongside artists Phaptawan Suwannakudt, and Billy Bain.
The exhibition of finalists will be on display until 25 May — 28 June 2026.
