Utilising primarily porcelain clays, stoneware and other clays (occasionally terracotta) she employs wheel-throwing, coil-building, and sculptural processes in developing works that feature a focus on form, detail and surface.

In creating her contemporary works she is mindful of the stimulus of the world history of ceramics, innovative approaches and the formal art elements of line, shape, form, surface, value, texture, colour, space, mass and movement.

Dianne exhibited her ceramic works extensively in her early career and more recently in a solo (2019) and via group exhibitions. Her work is included in the permanent collections of Parliament House Canberra – ACT; Powerhouse Museum Sydney – MAAS; Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, Launceston; and other public and private collections in Australia and abroad.

Dianne attended Caulfield Institute of Technology full-time for three years studying Art & Design with a Ceramics major from 1975-1977; she attended RMIT completing a Post Graduate year in Fine Art – Ceramics in 1985; and she undertook and completed a Masters Degree of Art Administration at CoFA UNSW in 1996/7.

She maintains her ceramics practice with a creative passion that explores new and previously created forms and expressions in clay and is of the belief that with a regular work practice that the ideas keep flowing…