Following her successful THIS IS NO FANTASY show Considerate Touch (2021), Standen's new works continue to explore the ritual of making, playful forms, and scale. Standen's practice engages with ceramic material as a functional yet precious medium, her works operating between both vessel and fragile object. The repetitive gesture of 'pinching' her hand-built forms is as much conceptual as it is an act of realisation.
In 2019 Standen was the recipient of the prestigious Cité Internationale des Arts Residency in Paris and undertook self-guided research living in Istanbul. Winner of the Sidney Myer Award for Ceramics, Shepparton Art Museum 2012, Standen was a finalist in awards including the Churchie National Emerging Art Prize, Gold Coast Ceramic Award, and the Wynne Prize. She has undertaken residencies in Geneva, Tel Aviv, and at the Harley Foundation in the United Kingdom.
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