Speckled like sand grit, trudging through the shore to reach the ocean — how blue is the sky that the sun sits in, that it sets in? These vessels and candelabras hold the warmth of summer in their very bones. Shades of blue, pink, white, and flickering metallics reflect the shifting light — bright noon, soft dusk, the golden spill of the evening. Shells pressed into clay echo the way heat presses into skin, leaving traces — soft, permanent. This collection speaks not just to the ocean but to the sun that makes it loveable, to the fountain of cool that caresses it, to warm swims, to the slow burn of a season. Touched by the unrelenting sky, sweat soaked and sunkissed.

Olivia Asher (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, b. 1994) is a multidisciplinary artist, maker and writer based in Tāmaki Makaurau. Her creative practice is shaped by touch, heat and memory — tracing the subtle ways time, light and seasonality influence material and form. She engages in a tactile dialogue with her materials, allowing both intention and intuition to guide her practice. Embracing the tension between presence and erosion, permanence and change, her work reflects a sensitivity to the shifting states of both the physical and the ephemeral. Olivia graduated with a BFA from Te Waka Tūhura Elam School of Fine Arts.