Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre

2026 Muswellbrook Art Prize

Chronicle

Laura Butler

Chronicle, 2024 ceramic stoneware tiles, cobalt oxide and glaze 142 x 87 x 4 cm

Chronicle documents a prolonged period of uncertainty and serves as a meditation on how we construct frameworks of meaning when confronted with the unknown.
Through the mechanical repetition of stamping oxides, Butler exposes the tedium of this time.
The grid-like arrangement transforms shapeless anxieties into an ordered visual language, creating structure from chaos and finding purpose in process.