My practice explores how our understanding of self is layered and continually evolving. Much of my recent work has emerged from two significant personal experiences: early motherhood and the discovery that I am donor conceived. I navigate themes of disrupted identity through autobiographical memories and material exploration. Across my work, identity is understood not as fixed but as something composed of multiple narratives: the remembered, the inherited, and the imagined.

Working primarily with ceramics, I use material processes to reflect states of transition, vulnerability, and becoming. Shapes and forms often evoke portals or thresholds, creating spaces to pause, reflect, and move through. My work speaks both to abstraction and the body, using shifting surfaces and subtle distortions to convey meaning. I am influenced by modernist sculpture’s visceral engagement with form, materiality, and the human experience and I aim to create an environment of introspection around my work.

Britt Neech (born Sydney, 1995) lives and works on the Mornington Peninsula, VIC. Britt’s work references themes of identity through autobiographical memories and material exploration. After completing her Bachelor of Design in Fashion and Textiles at the University of Technology Sydney, Britt shifted her focus to ceramics — a medium that continues to ground her practice. Britt has been a finalist in The Alice Prize (2026), the Wyndham Art Prize (2026 and 2023), the Omnia Art Prize (2024) and has shown her work in solo and group exhibitions since 2020.

Education

2017 Bachelor of Design in Fashion and Textiles, University of Technology, Sydney, NSW

Solo Exhibitions

2023 A Cupboard Full of Light, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, VIC

2022 Finding Form, Michael Reid Clay, Newport, NSW

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026 Soft Return, Saint Cloche Gallery, Paddington, NSW

2025 CURRENT, Lander—Se, Red Hill, VIC

2024 SCAPE, Lander—Se, Red Hill, VIC

2022 Reclaim: Clay Connected, Brunswick Street Gallery, Craft Contemporary,Fitzroy, VIC

2022 Clay Connected, 1280 Gallery, Melbourne Design Week, Brunswick, VIC

2021 Shaped, Craft Victoria, Melbourne, VIC

2021 Artefact, Saint Cloche Gallery, Duo show with Lucy Anderson, Paddington, NSW

2020 Nautilus, Saint Cloche Gallery, Paddington, NSW

Art Prizes

2026 The Alice Prize, Finalist, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT

2026 Wyndham Art Prize, Finalist, Wyndham Cultural Centre, Werribee, VIC

2024 Omnia Art Prize, Finalist, St Kevin's College, Toorak, VIC

2023 Wyndham Art Prize, Finalist, Wyndham Cultural Centre, Werribee, VIC

Residencies

2022 Assembly Label: Artist in Residence, Mornington and Brighton, VIC