Bree Cribbin is an Australian artist living and working nomadically. Her multidisciplinary practice spans sculpture, ceramics, installation, textiles, painting, and photography, drawing together material inquiry, spirituality, mysticism, ritual, and craft traditions. Her work explores the complexity of human existence: how we move through suffering, injustice, and transformation, and how beauty, meaning, and freedom emerge within conditions of pain and uncertainty.
Approaching making as a space for reflection, repair, and becoming, her work sits at the intersection of the ancestral and the contemporary, the material and the metaphysical - drawing on spiritual philosophy, her craft lineage, and an ongoing inquiry into the visible and invisible forces that shape human experience.
Cribbin holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture from the National Art School and a Diploma in Ceramics. She studied classical sculpture at the Tom Bass Sculpture Studio, where she received multiple scholarships and teacher training, and later studied under and assisted sculptor Ingrid Morley. Her wider training includes Clinical and Transpersonal Hypnotherapy, Usui Reiki and Massage therapy, alongside sustained study in spiritual and healing practices across Australia, Asia, and Europe.
Her work has been recognised through the Harvey Galleries Graduate Award for Sculpture (2023), First Prize for Indoor Sculpture at Sculpture in the Valley (2019), and the Port Hacking Potters Award (2018). She has also been a finalist in national prizes including the Blacktown Art Prize, the Tom Bass Figurative Sculpture Prize, and the Ingenuity Sculpture Festival.
Alongside her studio practice, Cribbin has worked across community, education, and wellbeing contexts with a commitment to accessibility and care. She has facilitated art and healing workshops with the Sydney Opera House, Waverley Art School, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Headspace, Little Orange and Western Sydney University. In 2018, she founded a community ceramics wellbeing business in her home town- integrating clay, mindfulness, and inclusive creative practice.
Her ongoing travels continue to deepen her engagement with craft traditions, community, spiritual inquiry, healing practices and the material languages through which people seek connection, transformation, and repair.
Connect with her healing practice at www.sacredresponse.com