05.03.2026—05.04.2026
Launch: Wednesday 4 March 2026, 6-8PM
Okra Ritual presents an evolving body of work centred on okra (bhindi), an everyday vegetable reimagined as a symbolic artefact of sustenance, memory, migration and cultural lineage. Developed over the past two years, the project unfolds through a cycle of practices that include growing, cooking, printing, casting, weaving and the repeated hand-building of ceramic forms. These actions operate as quiet rituals, guided by personal and seasonal rhythms and embodied knowledge. The ritualised repetition of making becomes an act of reverence, transforming the familiar into the symbolic and reflecting domestic, ancestral and tactile labour.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Avrille Burrows is a Naarm (Melbourne)–based multidisciplinary artist working primarily with ceramics and textiles. Her practice explores South Asian heritage, lineage and place-finding through hand-building, growing, printing, dyeing, weaving and stitching. As a migrant woman of Indian origin, her work reflects on colonisation, integration and displacement. Informed by a background in mental health and principals of recovery, Avrille approaches making as ritual and repair, using repetition, muscle memory and talisman-making to treat clay and textiles as carriers of memory.
Image: Avrille Burrows, The Practice, 2025
