Teresa Peters is an artist and filmmaker based in Tamaki Makaurau, currently working
in clay and ceramics, photography and moving image. She is interested in bodies, earth bodies, forming
and transforming. Chemical compounds and molten entities, in intimate
combustion. ‘Excavating’ primordial totems’, as we move on into the
sixth mass extinction. Ceramics is alchemy. Earth, water, air… fire...
Teresa Peters, ‘DISASTROUSFORMS.COM - Artefact No.1’, Raw clay archived as a framed photograph, 700mm x 700 mm, Edition of 12, 2020 @aotearoaartfair ‘Teresa Peters’ Disastrous Forms ‘explore disaster as the mother of revolution.’ Riffing on tropes of archeology and anthropology, her ‘primordial’ clay pieces could be faux-artifacts. It’s easy to imagine these heat-forged curiosities being excavated at some distant point in the future. Her works trace the rehabilitative potential of forms emerging from mata o Papatūānuku, Earth’s surface, through the unstable lottery of making and firing.’ Excerpt from ‘Threads For Lost Mothers, or how she gained a Masters of Economics’ by Hanna Scott. @teresapetersstudio #hannascott @mothermother_archive
