Juz Kitson
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About
Her sculptures are rooted in a deep curiosity for planetary ecologies that embrace impermanence, where nature is not a backdrop, but an active, breathing presence.
Juz Kitson’s sculptures blossom from the ground like ancient relics newly encountered and alive. These sculpted lifeforms, shaped from porcelain, fur, bone, wax, and glass echo cycles of rebirth, where objects charged with memory, body, and nature entwine to become the environments we inhabit. Her sculptures are rooted in a deep curiosity for planetary ecologies that embrace impermanence, where nature is not a backdrop, but an active, breathing presence. The work leaves the viewer with quiet, lingering questions: What shapes our perception? What mirrors the natural cycles we carry within us each day?
Kitson graduated with First Class Honours from the National Art School in Sydney in 2009 and has since exhibited widely across Australia and internationally. Her work has been featured in major institutional exhibitions including Primavera at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art at the Samstag Museum, and multiple showings in the prestigious Wynne Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. She has undertaken residencies in China, including at Tsinghua University in Beijing and in Jingdezhen, as well as in Hill End, NSW.
Her work is held in significant public collections, including the National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of South Australia, the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), Artbank, RMIT University, and major regional institutions such as Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Newcastle Art Gallery, Wollongong Art Gallery, Gold Coast City Gallery, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, and the Shepparton Art Museum. Kitson is also represented in numerous private collections nationally and internationally.
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Exhibitions
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Selected Artworks
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Juz Kitson
When the sun comes out... the moon disappears, 2025Porcelain and physical vapour disposition (PVD)
Variable Dimensions -
Juz Kitson
The Guardian and the Lions Roar, no.I, 2025Jingdezhen porcelain
38 x 29 x 22cm -
Juz Kitson
Observe the many ways, liminal spaces bordering things we already know. In memory of the wildfires, 2022Jingdezhen porcelain, black butt timber, steel, resin, silicone, enamel, marine ply
115 x 46 x 40 cm -
Juz Kitson
You & Me & Everything In-Between, no I, 2024Stoneware, various underglaze and glazes
50 x 54 x 12cm -
Juz Kitson
All will reveal itself when you dive in and dive in deep, 2023Stoneware, raku, terracotta, luster, various glaze
93 x 210 x 85 cm -
Juz Kitson
Meditations; the colour of morning (II), 2024Jingdezhen porcelain
75 x 74 x 11cm
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