Teval Gunner- Anam Cara

Year 2026

Medium Ceramic Stoneware

This work is a meditation on home as an inherited condition.

Its surface is an accumulation — a dense mosaic drawn from Bar Beach and Susan Gilmore Beach, my local shore. This location showed me that clay can hold story, and that pattern can become prayer.

The rockpools, the blackened pebble beds, the residue the tide leaves behind. Thousands of small, deliberate marks that speak to lineage,to memory held in the body before language.

The blue eye. A vessel of protection and witnessing. Simultaneously outward and inward facing, it holds what was endured to bring me here, and what is still unfolding.

The gold thread at its base is both anchor and continuum, binding past to present.

Having lived in many places, it is only in Newcastle that I have felt a true belonging of heart and soul — where the concept of HOME ceased to be abstract and became embodied