Emmeline Joy Morris (b. 1999, Sydney/Eora) is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in ceramics, extending into video, fashion, and sound to explore sensory perception and the thresholds between body, object, and environment. Based in Sydney, with prior residencies in Germany and the UK, her work interrogates what it means to be human in an emotionally and technologically mediated, fragmented world.

Through anthropomorphic and human-like forms, Morris’s ceramic practice juxtaposes the immediacy of flesh with the enduring, artifact-like qualities of clay. Her works question the temporal and philosophical nature of ceramics: as objects that endure long after their creation, they provoke reflections on impermanence, post-human futures, and the archives of lived experience.

As a neurodivergent artist, Morris’s practice emerges from profound feelings of disconnection, dissociation, and overstimulation. In response, she forges connection by embedding herself symbolically into the world: replicating everyday objects with ceramics that stand in for her own flesh. These forms at once vulnerable and enduring are placed within spaces and environments as extensions of the body, forcing her presence into dialogue with the world around her.

The practice of ‘Flesh’ invoke themes of survival, authenticity, and intimacy in a world increasingly shaped by technological mediation and social fragmentation, while seeking to bridge the gap between the isolated self and collective human experience.