About

Nanna Bayer

Ceramist, ecologist, teacher

Born in Finland, rooted in Tasmania. Nanna Bayer works with nerikomi — the Japanese technique of coloured-clay inlay — making vessels that hold light the way the bush holds it after rain. Her Finnish upbringing shapes how she thinks about material: clay as a record, pattern as a way of reading the world. In South Hobart, where she now lives and works, that thinking extends outward — into ecological sculpture, penguin nesting modules, objects that belong to specific places along the Tasmanian coast. The studio is also a teaching space: small groups, slow work, the same questions asked differently each week.

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