Alice Adler is a Sydney-based ceramic artist working primarily in hand-built porcelain.

 

Her practice centres on the labour-intensive Nerikomi process in which coloured clay bodies are layered, sliced, compressed, and reconstructed to create pattern embedded throughout the material itself rather than applied to the surface.

 

Working between sculpture, collectible design, and functional object, Alice Adler’s pieces explore repetition, distortion, tactility, and the tension between precision and instability within porcelain.

 

Each work is formed individually through a labour and material intensive process, resulting in objects that cannot be replicated. This process, and her preoccupation with the composition of pattern, colour and form is what makes her work so unique, where no two pieces will ever be the same. 

 

Influenced by architecture, textiles, and geometric abstraction, her work ranges from wall-mounted ceramic reliefs and sculptural vessels to interior architectural and functional objects.

 

Alice Adler previously exhibited throughout the UK before relocating her studio practice to Sydney, Australia where she has continued to explore the creative art of hand-building in coloured porcelain.