Silent Fractures
Lina Ocolisan
Silent Fractures (detail) 2024
Porcelain
Slip cast porcelain with textured glaze
Multiple pieces: 58 x 44 x 42 cm overall
About the Artwork
Silent Fractures is a series of sculptural forms influenced by the current narrative of gender-based violence. The works explore the fragile duality between our public personas and private selves, and serve as a metaphor for the hidden, often unspoken, realities of trauma and the resilience of those who endure it.
About the Artist
Lina Ocolisan is a Sydney-based ceramic artist whose sculptural forms and vessels explore life, identity, and the human experience. Raised in Arnhem Land and influenced by a multicultural background, her work reflects a deep curiosity about the personal, social, and cultural experiences that shape who we become.
Working predominantly with porcelain, Lina explores the material’s delicate balance between strength and fragility. Using unorthodox slip-casting techniques, she deliberately deconstructs and disrupts textured plaster moulds, creating forms that reveal fractures, distortions, and imperfections. These marks are embraced as metaphors for vulnerability, resilience, and the complexities of life.
For Lina, clay becomes a quiet storyteller—a way to give form to unseen experiences and to honour the strength found within imperfection. Lina has been recognised as a finalist in numerous Australian art prizes, including the Siliceous Award for Ceramic Excellence Award (2025), Muswellbrook Art Prize (2026), and her work has appeared in several national exhibitions.