Sassy Park is a Sydney based artist interested in the history of art, linguistics and ideas. Known for her figurative and vessel works in clay, she explores themes of vulnerability and fragility, through a lens of historical ceramics, humor, and social commentary.

In 2018, she undertook a Masters in ceramics at National Art School after previously studying painting at Sydney College of the Art. Her Masters exegesis, titled ‘Ceramics suits me, I am used to disappointment’, was first published in Ceramics: Art + Perception, vol. #113 in 2019. In 2025, Sassy Park won the George River Sculpture Prize and was also a finalist in the Archibald Prize, Australia’s most prestigious portrait prize.

Recent awards and scholarships include the 2024 Keramikkünstlerhaus residency in Neumünster, Germany, the 2022 Onslow Storrier studio residency at La Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris and the winner of the 2021 Muswellbrook Art Prize for ceramics. Curatorial projects include the highly successful and ongoing, The Vase and Flower Show, and the invitation to curate Small Pleasures at Gallery LNL, Sydney. Her work is represented in numerous Australian public collections including the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, as well as Australian and International private collections.

"Clay is Sassy Park’s social media. Her work plays with the accepted purposes of domestic ceramics to memorialise and commemorate the intimacies of everyday life. Through scale, intimacy, and humour, familiar forms such as plates and egg cups—decorated and painted with text—are transformed into poetic art objects.

Born to an English father, Park traces her heritage through English ceramic traditions. She is drawn to the democratic and social narratives portrayed in Staffordshire figures, as well as to the simple visual pleasures of English slipware and tin-glazed motto plates.

By writing on these portable surfaces, Park extends the ideal that thoughtfully made objects can enrich everyday life, expanding on what ceramics can communicate in contemporary times.

Words and texts may derive from song lyrics, news headlines, overheard phrases, or the artist’s own thoughts. Language and ideas interact with the ceramic form, allowing the objects to speak. Within the domestic sphere—where affections are expressed and issues are laid on the tabl, egg cups reflect on the nature of eggs and life, while plates, whether hung on the wall or set on a table, make a permanent statement."