Leila Khazma lives multiple lives as an engineer, chef and production ceramicist living and working on Gadigal land. Inspired by cuisine and functionality, it is through her ceramic practice that these worlds coalesce: creating domestic objects that exist symbiotically with certain food or practices, often fired with site-specific ash glazes in a self-built gas kiln.
Leila Khazma
“Food and the dinnerware that comes with it encourages an intimacy between the maker and the consumer, this universal feeling is one I want to emphasise, to encourage consumers to follow and interact with the forms they dine on. To open an inordinate and intimate dialogue between the maker and the consumer.”
- Leila Khazma
Billie and Leila work side by side in their respective Woodburn studios. They have collaborated in the past over their shared love of ceramic science, art and food. They are currently working towards another project that will involve developing individual works as well as collaborative works. Where Leila's focus is on functionality, Billie's is not, thus the end products are often something in between.