Harriet Geater-Johnson

Domestic Interjection

February 6 - March 22, 2026

Exhibition launch Friday February 6th at 6pm

Domestic Interjection explores both amalgamation and collision, investigating ideas of the native and the introduced through decorative European style urns and animal forms. Native animals emerge from and disrupt antique and memorial vessels, provoking discussion around colonial impact and ongoing environmental issues. Animals are used as motif to suggest a sense of relic, antiquity and survival.

In this exhibition the repeated use of funerary urns and objects in memoriam, is suggestive of remembrance as well as valued artefact. The use of animal bones, agricultural tools and early craft work suggests early settler domesticity and industry.

Working primarily in earthenware clay to slip cast and hand build forms, these surfaces have been created using glazes and stains to build layered colour, to reference the land and suggest the adaptation of ecological systems.

Stumble and Fall, 2025, earthernware clay

BIO

Harriet Geater-Johnson is an English sculptor based in Port Elliot, South Australia. Through her work, she is interested in exploring the conflict and cohesion between animals and humans, and how their presence causes a continual impact on the natural environment. Her pieces explore the idea of colonial impact, and how the arrival of Europeans and the introduction of domestic animals, objects and antiquities to Australia, altered culture and left ecological systems in precarious positions. Through surface and colour, the work expresses ideas of relic or archaeological specimen left as remnants in allegorical memorandum.

Harriet works primarily with earthenware clay and uses glazes and stains to achieve painterly finishes reminiscent of the Australian terrain. She has exhibited in group and solo exhibitions and has been selected as a finalist in shows around Australia.