Current exhibitions

Artist Belinda Piggott's Building Material Futures combines hand-built ceramic towers with structures grown from mycelium, the branching root-like network of mushrooms, including Shitake, Reishi and Sydney Oyster varieties.

Her work considers how cities might evolve if we embraced nature’s own processes rather than fighting them. Mycelium has great potential in the building industry for insulation and acoustic panelling. Having been nurtured on local café waste, these structures not only contribute to the circular economy but sequester carbon and safely decompose.    

Belinda Piggott’s practice is grounded in research, experimentation and a long engagement with materials. For over twenty years she’s worked with ceramics gradually expanding her palette to include raw and unfired clay, kelp, minerals, steel, ready-mades, sound, lighting and mycelium. These help her explore the tension between the built environment and the natural systems that quietly persist within it. 

Learn more about Belinda's practise.

Visit the Inside Outside Sculpture Plinth in Ted Mack Civic Park day or night.