Sophie Gemmill was born on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland in 1996 and lives in Melbourne, Victoria. She received a BFA from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (2025) and participated in an exchange at the Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain in 2024. She received The RMIT Ceramic Students Association Award 2025.

Her practice sits somewhere between the ancient and the imagined. Working primarily with terracotta, she embraces its warmth and imperfections and its grounding connection to earth, hands, and to time. Her forms often lean organic - echoing unearthed relics and drawing on traditions of storytelling, folk art, and personal mythology.

Current work:

"In A Kind of Quiet Heat, terracotta vessels are transformed into containers for memory and place. Each work gathers fragments from a California holiday - terraced dinners, cowboys, wildflowers and hotel pools all translated into the warm, earthy tones of clay.

Drawing from ancient pottery traditions as well as contemporary nostalgia, I reimagine the souvenir as an object that carries story rather than function: not water or grain, but dust, light, and the sensation of time slowed under the sun.

This series explores how memory, material, and place intersect, turning fleeting moments into enduring forms."