Janet Fieldhouse’s practice draws on her matrilineal connections to the Torres Strait Islander communities of Badu (Mulgrave), Muau (Moa), Kirri (Hammond) and Erub (Darnley) Islands as well as her father’s European heritage. Her objects are instilled with experiences and ideas sourced from family, culture and storytelling. She incorporates Western ceramic techniques in her approach and also takes inspiration from First Peoples’ pottery practices in the Pacific and the Americas. Her works celebrate traditions and stories of navigation, of living off the sea and land, and of women’s traditional practices, including weaving body adornments used for ceremony.