Selected Ceramic Work

Ceramic sculpture, vessels, plates, bowls and experiments in surface, texture and glaze — work that sits outside both sculpture series and forms part of my wider ceramic practice.

Portraits & Figures

Heads, busts and figures made outside the two sculpture series — some finished and glazed, others photographed in greenware, still on the bench.

Ceramic bust wearing a wide-brimmed hat with large painted monarch butterflies

Transformation Stoneware, greenware View piece →

A portrait bust outdoors — a wide undulating clay brim rising above the head, the shoulders draped in a cloth pressed all over with lace texture

Head Portrait Study I Stoneware, greenware

A portrait head in greenware, still wrapped in a clay bag, the eyes and mouth finely modelled and the hair swept back

Head Portrait Study II Stoneware, greenware

A portrait head in greenware on the studio turntable, the hair roughly blocked in and swept back, the eyes, nose and mouth finely modelled

Head Portrait Study III Stoneware, greenware

A glazed portrait bust on a white plinth — dark modelled hair, softly coloured face, the shoulders draped in a cape of deep blue blossom pattern with a raised white cross and gold fan motifs

Head Portrait Study IV Stoneware, final glazed

A greenware sculpture on the studio bench — a standing female torso rising out of a fluted base, one large open hand reaching across the body, an open cylinder above the shoulder and a smaller hand at the chest

The Surrealist Project — Merged with Hand and Heart Stoneware, greenware

A torso painted with cobalt blue flowers in liquid underglaze, green stems and leaves, with pale pink and blue forms at the shoulder

Underglaze Study Stoneware, greenware

Surface & Glaze Studies

Work made to find out what a glaze or a surface technique will actually do — how it breaks over a raised form, where it pools, and what happens when one layer is carved back into another.

A ceramic sculpture of a cupped hand on a square base, glazed in soft white and warm ochre where the glaze has broken over the raised forms of the fingers

Sculpting Hand & Surface Glaze Study Gen’ satin matte with clear glaze over

A small gas-fired form — deep oxblood red flooded across the surface, broken by pooled cream that has crawled and crazed into a shell-like pattern over the top

Surface & Glaze Study I Gas fired — Selsor copper overall, Malcolm Shino over the top

A square hand-built stoneware dish in speckled brown clay, a lace doily pattern carved back through a bright yellow slip across the well and rim

Surface & Glaze Study II Sgraffito — carving back through the slip layer

A ruffled flower-form ceramic bowl, the whole surface brushed in floating blue — deep cobalt pooling in the folds, pale cream running down the ridges and warm gold breaking along the frilled rim

Surface & Glaze Study III Floating Blue brushed over the whole surface

Vessels, Plates & Bowls

Hand-built vessels and tableware from the studio, where texture is pressed into the clay itself before any glaze is chosen.

A round bowl finished in flat cobalt blue, the well pressed with lace and doily textures and the rim built from three rows of clay spheres

Bowl Stoneware, finished in acrylic

Glazed ceramic plates, bowls and a textured vessel in orange and chartreuse, drying in the studio

Plates, Bowls & Vessels Stoneware, glazed

Studio table of glazed ceramic busts, plates, bowls and a sculpted hand

Studio Ceramics Stoneware, glazed

If you would like to purchase any artworks, please get in touch — lee.anchor@optusnet.com.au.

© 2026 Lee Anchor Sculpture. All rights reserved. I acknowledge the Gubbi Gubbi (Kabi Kabi) people as the traditional custodians of this land on which we walk, work, learn and gather. I honour and pay respects to their ancestors, elders and emerging generations.