Fliss Dodd is a Sculptor living outside of Berry on Yuin country NSW, Australia.
She studied Ceramics at the ANU School of Art back in 1994 where she fell in love with hand building whilst being taught by ceramicist Hiroe Swen.
Dodd's sculptural pieces are all independent characters that unfold as she creates from slabs of clay, working with both stoneware and earthenware clay bodies. Born from a deep fascination with other cultures and their reverence to the bull, ceremonies, rituals, costume and story, they hold a sense of music, calmness, courage, initiations, connectedness and rhythm. Nature and ceremony are elucidated by her considered suggestions that play through her mind, manifestly abstract bull forms, anthropomorphic characters and masks with their own particulate and nuanced offerings to time and place.
Fliss' manner of working is best described as deeply intimate, making small, rhythmic, thoughtful, mediative marks on select pieces with the addition of the symbolic red thread, inspired from travels to Asia signifies a form of protection, luck and staying connected to the spiritual world. With every piece she makes her heart sings.
Her pieces are held in private collections both in Australia and overseas and no two are ever the same.
Solo Exhibitions: Ode to the Ox’- Michael Reid, Gallery, Newport 2021 sold out
‘Simple acts of kindness’ - online 2021 - sold out
‘Change of Season’ - Michael Reid Gallery Murrurundi 2021 -sold out
‘Rhythms & Rituals’ - Michael Reid Gallery, Newport 2023
Group Exhibitions: Sydney Contemporary 2022 - Michael Reid Gallery Murrurundi
Art Prizes: Finalist , National Emerging Art Prize - 2021 Finalist, Muswellbrook Art Prize 2022 Finalist, The Alice Prize 2024
For all enquiries please email - hellofliss@gmail.com
Photo by Pip Farquharson for Galah Magazine #6 - 2022