Yellow Melt is part of a larger body of work that focuses on the idea of entropy and collapse, something she says is easy to achieve with porcelain.
"All my work explores materiality - what materials do, the sensuality of materials, the metaphors that arise through the manipulation of the materials."
During the talk she will show the audience her current series of works, and adds that talking to people "helps me clarify my ideas".
Mr Bunkley, whose video Pillar of Cloud was highly commended in the Arts Review, said he worked overseas and nationally, "but I generally don't have an opportunity to show it locally, other than the review".
He sets out to make "convincing and unsettling" computer-generated works using both virtual and photo-realistic images.
When making Pillar of Cloud, he spent three days chasing dust devils in the California desert, placing flower petals in their path. But they proved elusive.
"When I was ready to give up looking, a well-formed small dust devil appeared to my right.
"I turned my camera on a tripod towards it, snatched a bag of flower petals that I had bought at LA's flower district and ran into the small vortex dumping the contents ... it grabbed the petals and then dropped them 30m away."
Jeweller Frances Stachl submitted her first Arts Review piece in 2013 - "It was made of cigarette butts and quite smelly so wasn't selected," she said.
This year she was highly commended for her untitled work in oxidised silver and will talk more specifically about the ideas behind the piece.
She likes the extra challenge of making a specific piece to compete in the exhibition.
"The ideas might have been knocking around in my head for a while and the review gives me a chance to make something a little different from my usual production work.
"The review pieces are things that I want to make but which are sometimes not commercially sound. I quite like to make things that I think are beautiful - and a little bit of humour doesn't go astray. "
For Amy Blackburn, her sixth entry in the Arts Review saw her highly commended for her acrylic on canvas, Homeward Bound.
"Whanganui has such a vibrant and active arts community; it's such an honour to be recognised and to be a part of it," she said.
Homeward Bound is an abstract reflection of time spent driving through the landscape between Tangimoana and Whanganui.
"My paintings are inspired by nature, in response to the need for God and beauty in this world."
Not long out of Whanganui UCOL's Quay School of the Arts degree programme, she will give a brief look at the direction she took there and what she has done since graduating.
