Selected Work
This page showcases works that inform and are part of the current PhD research project which considers what it means to have a material practice in the context of climate change.
The leaves fell, falling, until the only tree was the falling itself.
2025
Glazed ceramic, driftwood, found natural materials, salt.
Dimensions Variable
Install shot of Landscapes of Hope exhibition
School Gallery, Folkestone, 2025
Done, Undone 2025 Mixed Media Dimensions variable
Snakes and Ladders
2024
Glazed ceramics
Dimensions variable
Shown in Material Thinking at the Lightbox, Woking
Photo credit Deniz Guzel
Your Place and Mine
2024
Mixed media on reclaimed banana crate
50 x 30 x 25 cm
This work was shown as part of curatorial project RAFT at Royal Overseas League
Crystal World I
2024
25 x 17 x 11 cm
Glazed ceramic
Crystal World II
2024
Glazed ceramic
25 x 10 x 14 cm
Crystal World III
2024
33 x 27 x 19 cm
Glazed ceramic
Ayni
Susie Olczak
2024
Single channel moving image (7 min 35 secs)
Shot in Chile and Bolivia
Ayni was filmed in Chile and across the border at Laguna Colorada in Bolivia in 2023. The title means reciprocity in the Lickan Antay community’s native language Kunza. They have inhabited the Atacama Desert region of Chile for over 10,000 years. This film celebrates their unique way of life.
The film highlights human interventions and natural adaptations, connecting the materials, shelters, water systems, plants and landscapes of the Atacama Desert with wider questions of reciprocity, care and ecological change.
Field recordings and notes from time spent in Chile are interwoven throughout including the sound of flamingos, the song of the llama and a traditional ocarina.
Embodied Land
2023
Clay, found plant materiaL, coca leaves
Shown at La Yareta Arts Centre, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile.
Finding Water
2023
Desert Plants, Fabric and String
Dimensions Variable
Made in Coyo, Chile
To Propagate: To Graft
Reclaimed wood, reclaimed house-paint, varnish and steel
190 X 60 X 40 cm
2023
Installed at Hestercombe Gallery and Gardens
It’s Going to Be Okay
2022
Reclaimed steel and aluminium, metal paint, reclaimed interior paint and digital print onto reclaimed plastic.
Dimensions Variable.
Shown In Unlit Path at the Hardwick Gallery in 2022 alongside Where the Jungle Meets the Sea... The World is Split in Two which forms Reciprocity.
Hope
2022
Found materials including banana leaves, rope, woven basket from palm leaves, palm leaves and clay.
Dimensions variable
Armila, Panama
This work onwards is pre PhD research work.
Escaping the Confines
2020
Reclaimed plastic, reclaimed stool, packaging tape, cardboard, spray paint and paint.
190 x 30 x 30 cm
Chain Reaction
2019
Screen printing acetate, paper, tape, rope, steel and paint.
185 x 40 x 30 cm
This work is part of a body of work made for the MA show at the Royal College of Art. It is a chain reaction of experimental making: a process of constructing, taking apart and reconfiguring.
The sculptures layer up optical print and become a blur, encouraging the viewer to question what is real and what is fake. The forms feel as though they can be reconfigured, offering the possibility of control over the spaces around them.
Fold
2020
Screen printing acetate, Digital photograph, paper, and paint.
90 x 30 x 30 cm
Adaptation
2020
Mono-print collage
59.4 x 42 cm
On Light: Water: Air
2018
Digital Projection
This projection work made for the Aerocene workshop is composed of footage filmed about the consideration of light and the effects it can have in our urban spaces.
The next elemental aspect of footage is water, using footage taken in Venice during the summer. The abstract narrative ends with calmer waters, suggesting that there is hope in controlling the climate.
Image taken during a research trip to Iceland used to inspire the glass cast below.
Fragment of a Melting World
2019
Cast glass
33 x 15 x 6 cm