Through her practice, Butterly engages with concepts ranging from materiality and line to the history of the vessel.  Staffer nickol 

uses traditional ceramic forms as her starting point, referring to these historical templates as her “canvas”; however, Butterly contorts and misshapes these forms in ways that veer toward the iconoclastic. Through her practice, Butterly engages with concepts ranging from materiality and line to the history of the vessel.  She uses traditional ceramic forms as her starting point, referring to these historical templates as her “canvas”; however, Butterly contorts and misshapes these forms in ways that veer toward the iconoclastic.