Belinda Marshall

Belinda Marshall is a ceramic artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland, whose practice is grounded in material exploration, intuition, and a deep respect for process. With a background spanning visual arts, film, and fashion, Marshall brings a multidisciplinary sensibility to her work in clay, where form, texture, and surface become vehicles for storytelling and cultural memory.

Travel and lived experience play an integral role in shaping her aesthetic. Encounters with different landscapes, architectural forms, and craft traditions inform the quiet strength and tactile richness of her hand-built vessels and sculptural objects. Working primarily through coiling and pinching techniques, Belinda allows each piece to evolve slowly, guided as much by the material as by intention.

Central to her philosophy is an embrace of unpredictability. Clay resists total control; shifts in temperature, atmosphere, and glaze during firing introduce subtle variations in tone and texture. Rather than seeking perfection, Belinda honours these transformations, viewing them as evidence of collaboration between artist and element.

Each work is individually constructed by hand, resulting in pieces that feel intimate and singular. Through this balance of control and surrender, Belinda creates ceramics that are both grounded and expressive, celebrating imperfection, process, and the enduring beauty of the handmade.