Born 1963 Melbourne, Australia
Currently lives Sunshine Beach, Australia
Yanni is a multi disciplinary artist working in ceramics, installations and photography.
Her ceramic sculptural forms are inspired by infinity, flow and the cyclical nature of existence.
Drawing on the movement of wind, water and landscape, her ceramic work explores transformation, continuity, and the relationship between stillness and motion.
Her numerous Awards span several art forms including SWELL, Horizon Festival, Woodford, Ephemera- Townsvile, Sculpture on the Edge and Floating Land-Noosa Heads with site specific large scale installations to video-Judith Wright Centre and ceramics at Du Rietz.
She holds diplomas in fine art and photography and has exhibited both locally and internationally.
Having held exhibitions in regional and private galleries, Noosa Regional, Webb Gallery QCA Griffith University, Redlands, Judith Wright Centre, CA, and The G Contemporary as well as residencies at Big C NSW among others.
Her most recent residency in 2025 in Aachen, Germany followed by an exhibition in Gallery Spatz.
Diploma of Photography 1998
Diploma Fine Art 2011
2025 Artist Residency Aachen- Germany
2025 Release Exhibition Gallery Spatz
2025 Installation ‘Flow’ Wearable Art Festival
2025 Installation “Continuum” Wearable Art Festival
2025 Installation “Evolve” Wearable Art Festival
2024 “Absence Presence” Exhibition Gympie Regional Gallery
2023 ‘Different Together’ Noosa Regional Gallery
2023 ‘Absence Presence” Webb Gallery QCA Griffith University
2023 Artist Residency Big Ci Wollemi National Park NSW
2023 ‘Shedding’ Performance/Installation piece
2023 Artist Residency, nd SPACE, Nambour Project 24
2023 ‘Entwined-Mother Tree’ Performance – exhibition
2023 One.5 Degrees Solo Exhibition Capalaba, Redland Art Gallery
2023 Who Let the Dogs Out? Ephemera, Townsville Art Festival
2023 Go with the Flow First prize 3d – Du Rietz Award
2023 ‘Fragile’ Installation exhibition WEBB Gallery Griffith University Campus
2022 Artist Residency, Maroochydore Botanic Environment Centre
2022 Listen…Mother Tree’ Performance – exhibition
2022 ‘Playtime’ SWELL Currumbin
2022 ‘Harmony’ Finalist – Martin Hanson Art awards
2022 ‘Flow’ Finalist – Du Rietz Art awards
2021 ‘Bush to Bay’ Commission – HOTA Art hotel Eumundi
2021 ‘Reef in Grief’ The Strand Ephemera 21,Townsville
2021 ‘Homage’ Performance piece – Floating land, Noosa
2021 ‘Casuistry’. Solo Exhibition – Noosa Regional Gallery
2021 ‘Casuistry Extreme’ Judith Wright Centre – video projection
2021 ‘Casuistry Extreme’ Traveled Qld with Flying Arts
2021 The Green House, Installation for Climate Change Week – Noosa Heads
2021 ‘Art Round About’ Curated for SWELL, Currumbin
2020 Earth, Wind and Fire’ Environmental Award – Sculpture on the Edge Spicers Maleny
2020 ‘Twisted Infinity’ Dust Temple Gallery – Gold Coast
2020 ‘Deck Chairs on the Green’ Noosa River Mouth
2020 ‘Back from whence they came’ – Environment Award – SOTE
2019 Taste of Art, Noosa RG – People’s Choice Award
2019 ‘Reverence’ Performance piece – WINDO – Cooroy
2019 ‘Flow’ Finalist – Du Rietz Award
2019 ‘Chairs for Birds’ Peoples Choice Award – Taste of Art Noosa G
2019 ‘Sea Spirit’ Environmental Award SWELL GC
2019 ‘ANEW’ Overall Winner- Sculpture on the Edge
2019 ‘A Plague of Poly Pods’ Floating Land installation
2018 ‘Earth Wind & Fire’ First Prize Environment Award – SOTE
2018 ‘The Green House’ Commission Horizon Festival
2018 ‘Wave Goodbye’ Commission Noosa Festival of Surfing
2018 ‘Natural Fascinator’ Work shop World Environment Day
2018 ‘Centre to Sea’ Exhibition Maroochydore Environment centre
2017 ‘Remember November’ Site specific installation SS Beach
2017 ‘Australis Plasticus’ Woodford Folk festival
2017 ‘Australis Plasticus’ Horizon Festival Coolum Foreshore
2017 ‘Habitat Lost’ Environment Award SOTE
2017 ‘Ringbarked’ First Prize Environment Award SOTE
2017 ‘Tree Line’ Floating Land, Noosa Heads
2017 ‘Seek’ Floating Land, Noosa Heads
2016 ‘The Point Is’ Second prize SOTE
2016 Solo exhibition, That Place in Pomona
2016 ‘Fantasea’ Commission Noosa Longweekend Festival
2016 ‘Plasticus Aquarius’ Art forARTsake installation Noosa Longweekend
2016 ‘Ebb Flow’ Installation Evoke Australian Architects conference Townsville
2015 Fasciinating Fascinators, Cooroy butter Factory
2015 ArtforARTsake, 13 ephemeral installations around Noosa Shire
2015 Second Prize, Mitchel Rabo bank 3D award
2015 ‘Ebb and Flow’ Art forARTsake Installation for Noosa Longweekend festival
2015 World Environment day workshop, Sippy Downs
2015 ‘Shards of the Past’ First Prize 3D Kenilworth Art Awards
2014 ‘Drought & Flooding Rains’, First Prize Mitchel Rabo bank
2014 Grand Champion – Mitchel Art Prize
2014 ‘Simmering Seas’ Finalist 3D Noosa Art Awards
2013 ‘Low Tide’ Highly commended & People’s Choice Award
2013 Perspective in Plastic People’s Choice Award Cooroy Butter Factory
2012 Ephemeral drift wood sculptures Northern NSW
2011 Sensual Landscape SOLO 11 Squared gallery – photographic exhibition
1998 AIPP Institute of Photography Awards – 1 Gold – 2 Silver – 1 Bronze
2023 Residency 2nd SPACE, Nambour, Project 24
2022 Residency Maroochy Bush-lands Environment Centre
2021 Finalist – Du Rietz Award
2020 Environment Award – SOTE ‘Back from whence they Came’
2019 People’s Choice Award – Taste of Art, Noosa Regional Gallery
2019 Finalist – Du Rietz Award – ‘Flow’
2019 Peoples Choice Award – Taste of Art Noosa, ‘Chairs for Birds’
2019 Environmental Award – SWELL GC, ‘Sea Spirit’
2019 Overall winner – Sculpture on the Edge, ‘Anew’
2018 First Prize Environment Award – SOTE ‘Earth Wind & Fire’
2017 Second overall SOTE – ‘Habitat Lost’
2017 First prize Environment Award SOTE – ‘Ringbarked’
2016 Second prize SOTE – ‘The Point Is’
2016 Second Prize, – Mitchel Rabo Bank 3D award
2016 First prize 3D Kenilworth Art Awards – ‘Shards of the Past’ ,
2016 First Prize Mitchel Rabo bank – ‘Drought & Flooding Rains’
2016 Grand Champion – Mitchel Art Prize
2016 Finalist 3D Noosa Art Awards – ‘Simmering Seas’
2013 Highly commended & People’s Choice Award – ‘ Low Tide’
2013 People’s Choice Award Cooroy Butter Factory – ‘Perspective in Plastic’
1998 1 Gold – AIPP Institute of Photography Awards
1998 2 Silver – AIPP Institute of Photography Awards
1998 1 Bronze – AIPP Institute of Photography Awards
Eternal Motion: Sculptures of Infinity and Flow
In these sculptural works, form and fluidity merge into a language of movement—an unbroken dance of energy, space, and time. Each piece, reminiscent of the infinite, embodies the ceaseless flow of existence: the ebb and swell of the natural world, the unseen currents of the wind, the tides, the breath, the pulse of life itself.
Crafted in clay and ceramic, these sculptures possess an organic fluidity, their sinuous curves twisting and folding like ribbons caught in the wind—never static, never still. They speak to the cycles that define our world: creation and dissolution, departure and return, the infinite loops of renewal. There is no harshness here, no rigid angles to contain the movement; rather, each curve invites the eye to follow its path, tracing a journey without beginning or end.
The artist draws from nature’s own choreography—waves unfurling, branches bending, dunes shifting—where motion exists even in stillness. The clay, once formless, is coaxed into shape with instinct and spontaneity, echoing the effortless yet profound way nature sculpts the landscape.
More than objects, these sculptures are experiences—meditations on movement, infinity, and the beauty of change. Each is unique, a singular expression of the artist’s hand and vision, just as no two moments in time are ever the same. They remind us that to move is to live, to change is to exist, and that infinity is not distant—it is something we can hold, tangible, weightless, and eternal. “
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