Strange fruit

'The term "strange fruit" was termed in the 1950s when the Ku Klux Klan would hang African American people in the trees of the streets; hence the term "strange fruit". My work, suffice to say, is autobiographical. The work is thrown and hand built, saggar fired, fumed stoneware. My work is underpinned by the joy I feel in seeing a concretisation of the elements (earth, fire, water, air and metal) and the mix of their potentialities in that firing, as each firing is unique.'—Robyne Latham © Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory