Hold

“Hold" (2023) is a large vessel made in response to the artist's feelings about her self-identity as an immigrant torn between two places of belonging. Home and belonging is Cape Town, the place where her ancestors lived, the place of her origin. But she also belongs to home in Melbourne, her safe and secure place, a place of familiarity, comfort, and emotional attachments. This piece encompasses these two sites, the black and white of the glaze representative of her two homes, similar but distinct, separate but more meaningful together. It is a development of the artist's practice in its change of scale, being much larger than previous work.