Tina Wheatley is a Sydney-based artist working on Dharawal Country in South Western Sydney. Her interdisciplinary practice combines textile-based craft techniques such as knitting and crochet with ceramic processes including wheel-throwing, hand-building, and slip casting. Her work explores abstracted bodily forms and classical vessels, engaging with themes of time, care, strength, and vulnerability.

Tina holds a Master of Fine Art (Ceramics) from the National Art School (2023), where she received graduate awards from The Australian Ceramics Association and Kil.n.it Experimental Ceramics Studio. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Creative Arts from the University of Wollongong, and a Bachelor of Teaching from Western Sydney University.
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She has extensive experience as an arts educator, having worked with schools, councils, galleries, and community organisations across Western Sydney for over 15 years to deliver creative learning programs. In 2024, she held her first solo exhibition, Burnout, and has exhibited in group shows and prizes including the 2024 Muswellbrook Art Prize, Held (The Australian Ceramics Association), and multiple times (including 2025) as a finalist in the Fisher’s Ghost Art Award.


Tina is also the founder and lead artist with Silo & Co. Creative - selling work locally to her community through markets, and through the website www.silococreative.com.au.