about
I am a potter working from my home studio in Meanjin/Brisbane. For many years now, I have enjoyed pursuing my practice within this field and the excitement of exploring new ideas through my material. It is wonderful to get to exhibit my work across Australia in a number of solo and group exhibitions. Working with clay and its processes has given me a particular way of viewing the nature around me and feeding it back in to my work.
‘Each day I am drawn outside walking and watching, collecting impressions from the environment around me. I find a stillness here as though the cycles inherent in nature and the creative forces at work are momentarily paused. With curiosity focusing my attention, I make discoveries; a tapestry of patterns in the undergrowth where shapes are woven through the tree roots, and an embroidery of detail in the bark of the trees. The intricacies and entanglements I notice underpin my practice. The Swedish poet Karin Boye wrote in one of her poems that she was ‘carried by the strength of fragile things’. To me these words describe the impact of my tender moments of connection with nature and with my practice. With my hands in the clay, the collected seeds of imagination are revealed though the making process. The slow ritual of my craft becomes another way for me to connect with our powerful, fragile natural surroundings.’
Ulrica Trulsson, November 2025
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EDUCATION
2012-2013
Ceramics Associate, JamFactory Contemporary Craft and Design, Adelaide SA
2010-2011
Diploma of Ceramics, Holmesglen Institute of TAFE, Melbourne VIC
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 The strength of fragile things, Sabbia Gallery, Redfern NSW
2024 Midwinter Echoes, Beaver Galleries, Deakin Act
2023 From Snow to Sand, Sabbia Gallery, Redfern NSW
2021 Close to Earth, Beaver Galleries, Deakin ACT
Surface Stills, JamFactory Collect, Adelaide SA
2020 Sand Captures, Sabbia Gallery, Redfern NSW
2018 Currents, Beaver Galleries, Deakin ACT
2017 Showcase #14, Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton VIC
2016 Bold Subtlety, Sabbia Gallery, Paddington NSW
2015 Utforska, JamFactory Contemporary Craft and Design, Adelaide SA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Shifting Ground touring exhibition, Scenic Rim Regional Gallery, QLD
Twenty 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Sabbia Gallery, Redfern NSW
2024 Petrichor, Sabbia, Redfern NSW
2023 Gold 50 years 50 JamFactory Alumni, JamFactory, Adelaide SA
2022 Sydney Contemporary, Sabbia Gallery NSW
2021 Spring 1883 Art Fair, Bruce Heiser Projects
2020 Inside, Craft Victoria, Melbourne VIC
Encounters, Skepsi @ Whitehorse Artspace, Box Hill VIC
2019 All’s a Mirror, West Gallery, Thebarton SA
Intriguing charm, Skepsi Gallery, Malvern VIC
2018 EARTH: Contemporary Ceramic Art, Sabbia Gallery, Paddington NSW
Vase and Vessel, Saint Cloche, Paddington NSW
Clay Intersections, ADC On Tour, Various NSW/ACT Galleries
2017 Salute XIII, Sabbia Gallery, Paddington NSW
Collect: Ritual of Tea, JamFactory Contemporary Craft and Design, Adelaide SA
2016 Clay The Exhibition, Saint Cloche, Paddington NSW
Clay Intersections, Australian Design Centre, Darlinghurst NSW
2015 Cups Runneth Over, Chinaclay, Clovelly NSW
Shifting Senses, M16Artspace, Griffith ACT
2014 29th Gold Coast International Ceramic Art Award, Gold Coast City Gallery, QLD
Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize Exhibition, South Australian Museum
These Things We Hold, Light Square Gallery, Adelaide SA
Heatwave, Art Informal, Manila, Philippines
2013 Generate, JamFactory Contemporary Craft and Design, Adelaide SA
South Australian Emerging Designer Award, JamFactory Contemporary Craft and Design
Mentor/Mentored, nominated by Prue Venables, JamFactory, Adelaide SA
2012 South Australian Emerging Designer Award, JamFactory, Adelaide SA
AWARDS and GRANTS
2016 ArtsSA Project Grant for the presentation of a solo exhibition at Sabbia Gallery
2014 ArtsSA Project Grant for new work for solo exhibition at JamFactory (July 2015)
Highly Commended at Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize
Recipient of ArtStart from the Australia Council for the Arts
2013 Winner of drink+dine+design South Australian Emerging Designer Award
PUBLICATIONS
2021 Johnson, K., Johnson, T., “Earth & Fire”, Thames & Hudson, p170-173.
Cousins, K-A., “Intimate Arrangements Create a Serene Vision”, Canberra Times 21st August.
Brennan, A., “Ulrica Trulsson Close to Earth”, The ReviewBoard 9th August.
2018 Amodeo, L., “Ulrica Trulsson Ceramics”, Houses Magazine, Issue 125, p79.
Cousins, K-A., “Elusive and Enigmatic Ceramics Inpired by Nature”, Canberra Times 4th June, p20.
Wilson, E., “Creative TOUCH”, Australian House and Garden, August Issue, p63.
2017 Cai, S., “Poetry of the Everyday, the Work of Ulrica Trulsson”, The Journal of Australian Ceramics, Vol 56 No 3 November, p22-27.
2016 Creswell Bell, A., “Clay Contemporary Artisans”, Thames & Hudson, p238-243.
2014 Phillips, S., “The Work of Ulrica Trulsson”, The Journal of Australian Ceramics, Vol 53 No 2 July, p107.
Marmalade Issue no 02, Cover.
2013 Sanders, C., “Drink, Dine, Design”, Adelaide Review, December, p58.
Fleming, K., “Dining Culture”, Adelaide Matters, December, p18.
COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Hamilton
Representation