Attending To is a collaborative work by sound artist Aarti Jadu and ceramicist Claire de Carteret exploring the interplay between sound and ceramics.
Over six months, the artists spent their residency in the West Space Studio to find resonance between unexplored materials in their individual practices. Attending To is the beginning of a series of collaborative experiments emerging from a shared interest in the way listening, rather than hearing, can cultivate intimacy, subjective interpretation and reflection.
For Between You and I, a central work in the project, Aarti and Claire sourced basalt—using discarded cutting sludge from Bluestone Victorian Quarries—kneading it into clay for the sculpture to take shape before creating sound that resonates with, and within, the forms.
The artists invite bodily engagement with the work, as they contemplate our relationship with time, both in the present moment, and within a much larger sense of deep time, geological and cosmic. You are invited to lay on the foam, to rest your head on the sculptural body, and listen.
- West Space Director Joanna Kitto
Images: @lllllllllllalllllllllll & @coy.aiire, 𝑨𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑻𝒐, @melbourneartfair, 2025. Photography by @dimiitra_