Bursting from vessels that mimic 18th-century English ceramics are cats, introduced to Australia by the first European settlers. The ceramic forms symbolise domesticity, settlement, and the migration of an entire culture: the English bringing with them not only their customs and household objects, but also the animals woven into everyday life. Cats, familiar inhabitants of English homes and kitchens, travelled alongside countless other possessions needed to establish a new life in an unfamiliar land.

What began as an innocent yet deeply ignorant act evolved into an ecological catastrophe. Today, feral cats are estimated to kill more than five million native animals across Australia every day.

The work reflects on the enduring environmental consequences of human interference in nature, and on the fragile ecological balance so easily disrupted.