Tanya Doody is an artist, researcher and educator whose work focuses on expressive and sustainable practices in a range of media. An ongoing dialogue with the ceramic medium forms the basis of her practice which includes performance art, sculpture/object making, and AI. Sustainability in art practices is an ongoing research area that has led to practice-based research in early technologies. Hand making dyes and pigments, low-fire clay processes, alternative kilns and energy sources, and a return to traditional knowledges that value noncommercial pre-industrial processes align with her practice in using clay to reconnect the body to its environment, to itself, and the bodies of others.

Offering clay and ceramic objects up for interaction in performance art contexts led to the ongoing series of sculptural ceramic works, Haptic Objects. Through this work, and a series of performative workshops, she proposes that engaging with matter has a way of calling us into being in familiar but sometimes forgotten ways. This work acknowledges that touch is important, and through sensorial engagement with material Haptic Objects centres direct experience. This experience is situated outside of language and the normal ways we analyze and explain our worlds to ourselves and values other means of sensory perception beyond vision. Haptic Objects seeks to reengage audiences in sensorially abundant ways reflective of the complexities of being.