Sculptural

Beste Ogan — Studies in Black — Porcelain

Forms that begin in the cast and push beyond it — porcelain worked into the tactile, the personal, the unrepeatable.

Wuthering Bodies

2026 — Fine Art@Hale

A wall installation of porcelain forms, each subtly different from the next, as though weathered by its own passing season — echoing the way wind and ocean endlessly reshape the shore.

What Weathers Together

2026 — Fine Art@Hale

Two porcelain masks, a man and a woman, their surfaces glazed and textured to resemble bronze and copper patina aged by time and exposure — a couple weathering life together. The artist's first work in figurative form.

Begging to Be Touched

2026 — Fine Art@Hale

Continuing the 'Studies in Black' theme, this wall installation uses a different, much smaller mould. It features 9 distinctive palm-sized forms, all cast from a single mould, hung on a square grid. Each piece invites touch, to be held and caressed.

Studies in Black

2025 — ‘Under Fire: Clay from the Western Edge’ Australian Ceramics Triennale, Fremantle Arts Centre

A collection of 21 distinct porcelain vessels made using a single mould, pushing the boundaries of traditional slipcasting and transforming a process rooted in repetition into a vehicle for expressive one-of-a-kind forms.

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Manta

2024

A fluid, winged form in black porcelain that echoes the motion of a manta ray, folding light and shadow across its lifted edges. Becomes the first piece of the 'Studies in Black' collection.

Bubble Shell & Pearls

2024

A marbled porcelain shell form cradling porcelain pearls, drawing on tidal pools and the quiet accumulation of forms along the shoreline.

Listening to the Waves

2023

A marbled porcelain sculpture inspired by shoreline pebbles, tuned to the feeling of holding the rhythm of waves in the palm of the hand.