Fliss Dodd is a Sculptor living on Yuin country NSW, Australia.
She studied Ceramics at the ANU School of Art back in 1994 & it’s here she fell in love with hand building whilst being taught by ceramicist Hiroe Swen.
Dodd's sculptural pieces are all independent characters that unfold as she creates from slabs of clay, working with both stoneware and earthenware clay bodies. Born from a deep fascination with other cultures and their reverence to the Bull, ceremonies, rituals, costume and story, they hold a sense of music, calmness, courage, connectedness and rhythm. Nature and ceremony are elucidated by her considered suggestions that play through her mind, manifestly abstract bull forms, anthropomorphic characters and masks with their own particulate and nuanced offerings to time and place.
Fliss' manner of working is best described as deeply intimate, rhythmic and thoughtful and her mediative marks on select pieces evoke a sense of softness, warmth and harmony.
Her symbolic red thread is inspired from travels to Asia signifying a form of protection, luck and staying connected to the spiritual world.
Fliss’ sculptures are held in private collections both in Australia and overseas.
For all enquiries please email - hellofliss@gmail.com