Sandra Black: Holding Light

In a career spanning over five decades, Western Australian ceramicist Sandra Black weaves elements her personal narrative into a body of work defined by resolved design and exceptional craftmanship.

Sandra Black: Holding light was published alongside the artists first major career survey at The Art Gallery of Western Australia. Featuring photographs of Black’s work, a chronology of her life and essay by exhibition curator Isobel Wise, Holding Light traces Black’s journey from her childhood in regional Victoria to her emergence as an artist of international renown. Highlighting how her rural upbringing and connection to nature shaped her creative vision, readers explore Black’s emphasises on the importance of family, friendship and travel in her practice.

Sandra Black: Holding light chronicles her career path as she refined her techniques and pushed the boundaries through the medium of clay and the process of piercing and carving porcelain vessels, the very foundation of her practice.

Published by The Art Gallery of Western Australia, 2025. 

Softcover

64 Pages

Published by the Art Gallery of Western Australia

First Edition 2025

ISBN 99781922868084