Ruth Ju Shih Li

Ruth Ju-shih Li is a Taiwanese-Australian artist whose works draw on her cultural and spiritual heritage. Li works with fine porcelain and also creates intricate, ephemeral raw clay installations. Her work is a celebration of renewal, natural cycles of life and the gradual progression of time. Speaking in the universal language of flowers, these chimerical microcosms of organic forms are autobiographical, yet mirror and extend onward to consider the fleeting nature of the human condition. Informed by her interest in articulating the complexities of her cultural identities, Li examines cultural confluences and intersections between humans and the natural world. Li divides her time between her studio in Sydney, her birth city Taipei and her ancestral homeland of China - where her second studio is based in the porcelain city of Jingdezhen.