Debbie Pryor: Traces
December 4, 2025 - February 1, 2026
Opening launch December 4 at 6-8pm
Guest Opening Speaker - Andrew Purvis, Director, Adelaide Central Gallery
Traces is an evolving exploration of mark-making, examining the relationship between landscape, materiality, and human connection.
Through textural and tactile gestures, the often tablet-like forms become non-linear traces of place, people, and memory. The work is abstract, layered, and expressive.
Rooted in memories of landscapes both near and distant, Traces explores the connections between locations, individuals, and moments in time. Each gesture becomes an experiment in temporality, materiality, and the threads that link past and present.
Debbie Pryor, Scamallach, 2025, Ceramic and plaster, 30 x 21 x 4 Photograph, James Pryor
Debbie Pryor BIO
I am a multi-disciplinary artist, curator and arts worker living and creating on Ngankiparinga land, South Australia. With a foundation in ceramics and glass, my practice centres on material exploration through both industrial and craft-based processes. Working primarily with ceramics and plaster, I explore past and present relationships through a close engagement with landscape and environment—drawing on observation as a means of connection, reflection, and response.
As an arts worker I have worked as a curator and manager across Adelaide, Sydney and Victoria since 2000; running galleries and programs at key craft and design institutions such as JamFactory, Object (now Australian Design Centre), Powerhouse Museum, Firstdraft, Craft, Guildhouse, The Australian Ceramics Association, and Helpmann Academy. I was President of the Bluestone Collection and Vice President of Northcity4, and have sat on the Boards of Hahndorf Academy and The Australian Ceramics Association. I am currently co-curating an exhibition with curatorial collaborator Hannah Presley for The Potter Museum of Art - University of Melbourne for exhibition in 2027. Debbie Pryor Bio
Debbie Pryor, Bailiwick, Ceramic and plaster, 2025, 28 x 28 x 6cm Photograph, James Pryor