Nani Puspasari Verified listing

Her practice explores cultural identity, migration, and memory, blending her Eastern heritage with contemporary forms. Through playful, bold, and surreal imagery, she captures themes of nostalgia, longing, and transformation, layered with symbolism, humour, and storytelling. Her work conveys emotion through a subtle, abstract, and poetic sensibility. In her ceramic practice, clay is more than a medium, it becomes a living archive of memory, emotion, and ancestral presence. Each piece is shaped by hand, allowing the material to respond with both resistance and tenderness. The kiln firing is a ritual of change: clay cracks, shifts, and ultimately transforms through fire. Her sculptures often emerge in vibrant colours and figurative forms inspired by nature and culture, balancing playful surfaces with deeper meanings. Through this process, memory takes shape in joyfully strange, emotionally resonant forms.

Selected Awards

2025 Finalist, Shelley Simpson Ceramics Prize
2025 Finalist, Muswellbrook Art Prize (Ceramic)
2025 Finalist, Feel Good Art Prize
2024 Finalist, (11th) The Korea-Australia Arts Foundation Prize
2024 Finalist, Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize
2024 Finalist, North Queensland Ceramic Awards
2024 Finalist, Emerging Artist Award 2024 by Fortyfivedownstairs
2023 Sculpture Highly Commended, Hornsby Art Prize
2023 Finalist, Muswellbrook Art Prize (Ceramic)
2023 Finalist, Little Things Art Prize (Ceramic)
2023 Finalist, TRAILS Sculpture Prize
2021 Finalist, (8th) The Korea-Australia Arts Foundation Prize
2019 Merit, 3x3 International Illustration Award No.16
2018 Fine Art Prize, Japan Illustration Award
2017 Best of Best, Hiii Illustration Award (Commercial)
2016 Runners up, Creative Quarterly 46 (Illustration)
2015 Shortlisted, Premio Combat Prize (Graphic Arts)
2011 Silver, Illustrator Australia Award
2011 Shortlisted, Create Design Award (Illustration)
2011 Finalist, Lethbridge Art Award (Painting)
2008 Winner, Bank of Queensland Encouragement Award (Painting)