Silent Touch explores how the artist as curator can combine the visuals of ceramic sculpture with the haptic perception of touch. Through her practice-based research, Maikki Toivanen, an Honours candidate of the University of Canberra, investigatesthe potential of touch within the gallery space. Toivanen furthers this connection to nature, through the Wunderkammer display of objects which have served as inspiration for her ceramic sculptures, opening a dialogue to the haptic. This utilises our innate sense of touch to combine narratives of nature, place and the act of collecting as a means of acknowledging theephemeral and delicate properties of life.

Maikki is an alumna of Queensland College of Art, achieving a Bachelor of Fine Art with a double major in Painting and Print Media, and a Diploma of Visual Arts in ceramics studies at TAFE Queensland.