Bea Bonafini draws upon mythology, spirituality and ecological thinking to create shapeshifting forms that move between human, animal and imagined worlds. Working across tapestry, cut carpet, cork painting, ceramics and installation, her practice reimagines ancient archetypes through richly tactile and materially experimental forms. Swallowing Earth (2022) is a ceramic and steel sculpture that emerges from the ground as an upturned root, a coral cluster or an animal skeleton. The delicately layered colours in the hand-finished porcelain fragment suggests sediments of the earth, perhaps cracked open by extreme heat or by a volcanic event.