Background story of the exhibition and the collection. : Joanna Cole regularly travels back to outback regions relating to her family and her own history. In Sunburnt Country Cole explores the poem by Dorothea Mackellar … through her own distant perspective of home, Cole illicits a love of “the wide brown land”.

Cole collects samples of soil from the places she visits and adds the dirt into the ceramic glazes - the minerals reacting in the kiln firing resulting in unique effects and colours on the fired vessels “