Kirsten Coelho works in Porcelain, producing reduction fired works that attempt to fuse subtle abstracted glaze surfaces with simple reductive forms. Impeccable lines with purity of form and color, tinged with an edge of decay.

Kirsten trained in Adelaide, South Australia before moving to the UK in the early 1990’s where she worked for a number of years in a London Studio. While in London Kirsten’s style developed influenced by the British Studio pottery tradition which has some of its origins in the theories of the potter Bernard Leach.

More recently her work has been influenced by nineteenth and early twentieth century enamel wares and the abstracted surface possibilities these objects can possess when they begin to age.

Since returning to Australia in 1998, Kirsten Coelho has been a studio tenant at the JamFactory Centre for Contemporary Craft and Design, completed a Master of Visual Art and currently lectures in Ceramics at the University of South Australia. Coelho now works from a studio at her home in Ethelton, South Australia.