Tyler Russell
Four Corners (2024)
Ceramic
25 x 25 cm
1 of 1

“A continuation of unseen forces, gravity forms and contorts the buff raku becomes four squared. Four Corners' interplays with rough pores and smooth glazed surfaces, creating an experience in tactility. By taking organic materials and practices, this work is formed in an unnatural shape; a sharp distinction in ecological reflection.”

Tyler Russell is a professional environmental photographer and ceramicist based in Lutruwita/Tasmania. His practice is grounded in an intimate engagement with the fragile and contested ecologies of Tasmania, where questions of care, resilience, and loss are ever-present. Through the experimental use of infrared and ultraviolet imaging, Tyler reconfigures the familiar landscape into something spectral and strange, making visible what often lies beyond human perception the hidden stress of plant life, the subtle registers of ecological change, and the traces of environmental degradation alongside resilience. His photographic work operates at the threshold between science and poetics: part ecological witnessing, part emotional inquiry, and always an act of reverence for the more-than-human world.
Running alongside this is Tyler’s ceramic practice, which offers a slower, tactile counterpoint to the lens. Working with clay sourced from his surroundings, he explores material memory, embodiment, and the grounding of self within place. Clay becomes both substance and metaphor an expression of touch, repetition, and process through which form and identity are shaped in relation to the land.

Together, these practices articulate a dual engagement with environmental witnessing and grounded being. By pairing the spectral vision of photography with the embodied intimacy of ceramics, Tyler’s work invites both feeling and knowing, offering audiences a space to reflect on the urgency, fragility, and enduring presence of ecological life.

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