Collection: Gabi Sturman

Since moving from Melbourne after competing a MA at Monash University, to far North Queensland six years ago, my artistic practice has changed to reflect my locality.

The environment in which I live has heavily influenced my work, from my series of city centric ‘Lightscapes’ for my MA folio, to my current sculptural work based on the wet tropics rainforest since living in far North Queensland.

My work is now predominately sculptural ceramics, and ranges from larger than life rainforest fruits, pods and seeds to luminescent fungi to realistic life-size rainforest inhabitants such as the tree kangaroo, pademelon, spectacled flying foxes and the lesser sooty owl. I find the richness and diversity of the flora and fauna of our wet tropics rainforest fascinating.