Libby Usher is a fourth-generation artist based in Paddington, Brisbane. Her ongoing focus is upon creating ceramic artworks that reveal and celebrate the everyday encounters she has with the creatures that inhabit her world, both real and imagined.

Usher’s intricately constructed figures and scenes continually reference a personal narrative and through her hand-built forms she constructs each new adventure with a sense of play and curiosity. As Usher explains, ‘These works express the deep connection I hold for the small things in life, the stories that emerge when you pause to closely observe what is going on around you, all the wondrous little happenings.’

Her current works continue to explore ‘domestic’ themes with intimate assemblages of figures, animals, and objects. Usher seeks to blur the lines between imagination and reality to create new worlds that are strangely familiar and yet ethereal, works that disclose the spectacle of the ‘ordinary’ and the important connections that exist between the ‘small things’, the self and each other.