Fran Romano + Camille Kersley
Ceramics
7 NOVEMBER 2026
Day + Time | Saturday | 10am – 4pm
Location | 22 Allambee Street, Reid ACT
Facilities | Refreshments provided, EFTPOS + cash accepted
Fran Romano and Camille Kersley both employ a process focussed practice in their ceramics, drawing and object-oriented works. Visitors will have the opportunity to explore a working inner-city studio as well as gain insights into their technical and creative practices.
A selection of studio artworks and works in progress will be on display and available for purchase. There will be the opportunity to work with clay, learn the process of cleaning and preparing found clays and grinding rock into pigment. Light refreshments will be provided, and the garden setting offers a welcoming space to relax and take in the surroundings.
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Fran Romano works primarily with the ceramic medium to explore the themes of decay, loss, longing, nostalgia and the passage of time. She works intuitively, building a sense of history through surface layering and uses found and handmade objects to create mixed-media installations. Her highly textured surfaces with blackened interiors ask to be investigated more closely. Offering space for contemplation, her works explore interiors, both physical and metaphorical.
A graduate of the ANU School of Art (2013) Fran’s focus on process-driven making and her background as a social worker, inform her series of experiential/well-being Reflective Clay Workshops.
In 2023 Fran was awarded a Highly Commended in the ART EDIT Self-Represented Artist Award and featured in that magazine. She has been a finalist in the North Queensland Ceramic Art Awards (2024) and the Goulburn Art Award (2022). In 2019, she was awarded first place for 3D Art in the Foot Square – Small Pieces Competition (Brisbane).
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Camille Kersley is a practising artist and registered clinical counsellor with over 30 years’ experience working at the intersection of arts and health.
Her practice could be viewed in the space of relational inquiry - an ongoing conversation that engages process as both the method and the meaning-(making).
A quiet but charged territory for sure, where thought, intuition and material converse. Tiny forward motions, a sensing and feeling and a wonderful knowing in the bones.
Images
Camille Kersley | Works in progress, 2026 | Build it and I will come, 2024 | Image courtesy of the artist
Fran Romano, 2017 | Photo by Mell Hill Photography
Fran Romano | Lovulus I, 2022 | Photo by Andrew Sikorski