Christian Piasentin (b. 1997, Toronto) is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist who works primarily in illustration and ceramics. In their ceramics practice they hand-build utilitarian pieces, decorative vessels and small sculpture. Their work explores themes of transformation and identity, drawing on their experiences as queer and non-binary, while examining the importance of ritual objects we use and covet in daily life. Their work often blends personal narratives of transformation of identity and gender with influences from the Art Nouveau movement, emphasized through organic forms, ...

Bio - Colleen Dwyer Meloche is a Montreal/ Tiohtià:ke based artist who explores notions of balance and belonging with clay. Her art practice ranges from eclectic ceramics for the home to sculptural constructions with coloured paperclay. Her pottery collections entertain the visual language of stripes and dots. In her functional work, Colleen uses hand-building techniques as well as throwing forms on the pottery wheel to create handmade ceramics for the everyday experience. By layering stencils of coloured underglazes and image transfers, she creates playful surface treatments. The design of ...

Dan Nuttall has a background in the natural science and design. Working both as a painter and a sculptor his work tends to focus on the ecocentric including: depictions of non-human animals, particularly birds; the presentation of ecological dramas that illustrate ecological theory; issues of biodiversity and conservation. Currently living and working in Norfolk County, southwestern Ontario, you can see his larger body of work on Instagram @dandoescreative.

Darlene Pratta.clayheart65@gmail.comhttps://www.facebook.com/darlene.pratt.7/

I grew up in Scarborough by a wild ravine. Some of my most vivd childhood memories are of exploring that beautiful place and my relationship to it. I believe this experience gave rise to the themes I continue to revisit. One of these themes has been to connect humans to the environmentand and it's inhabitants, by synthesizing characteristics of both, merging our molecules. I have worked primarily as a painter in the past and moved into three dimensions to create a different kind of confrontation with these ideas. I started with busts of young plant/human females, deep in thought, inhabiting ...

Katie works in sculpture and hand building, utilizing elements of both human and animal, exploring concepts of silent connection and non-verbal communication. Varied vessels adorned with creatures native to Northwestern Ontario, illustrated plates and porcelain wares of iconic Canadian locations transformed, Katie tackles her studio projects with great variety and fluctuation. Her exhibition work carries tones of human intorspection, using busts and figurative renderings. Commercial pieces lean toward connection to the local, explorations of human influence and studies of the wilderness we ...

Toronto based potter

Kyla attended a drop-in wheel throwing class at the Gardiner Museum in 2018 and left knowing that pottery would be an important part of her life from that point on. Her practice incorporates her deep love of food and her connection with farmers and food producers. This is most obvious in her playful handbuilt forms that evoke luscious fruit, but also in her love of wheel-thrown functional ware that incorporates trailed glazes and altered forms, inviting you to engage more deeply with the everyday acts of eating and sharing food.

Clay has been my exclusive medium, hand building using coil and slab methods.I live and maintain a studio surrounded by fields and a small forest under a huge sky.My career began in the 90's after completing a time at the University of Western Ontario. My works have been sold and exhibited in London: Jonathon Bancroft-Snell Gallery "A Matter of Clay 1,2,3."Toronto: The Gardiner Museum Shop "Marianne Fisher & Friends" Koffler Gallery Ontario Crafts Fusion Fireworks ShowMontreal: Franklin Silverstone Gallery "A Breath of Canadian Life" "Circus: "Vivid Imaginations" Claridge Collection "25th ...

The Studio gives MJ the space to balance her passion for art-making with her background in business. It engages both the creative and analytical sides of her brain—allowing her to explore the craft of pottery while drawing on her experience in strategy and operations. At the heart of it all is a deep love for making pots: thoughtful, functional objects that bring beauty to the everyday. MJ's craft is rooted in tradition but her pieces are designed for modern living. MJ believes in the beauty of handmade things, the joy of getting messy, and the magic of creating something from a lump of clay. ...

Mixed media artist with a special focus on ceramic as a sculptural material.

Susan Cardestablishedastudio in Toronto (1989) while studying ceramics at Sheridan College, subsequent to completing a B.H.Ec. (textiles) and B.F.A (painting) (University of Manitoba). In 2006, Card openedDISH GALLERY Studio, in the Toronto Distillery District, where she teaches, makes and exhibits her work, plus the work of other ceramicists.Cardhas exhibited widely in solo, group, juried and curated exhibitions including Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, World of Threads (2012), Art Gallery of Burlington and Gardiner Museum. Shehas presented workshops, lectures, demonstrations, has published ...

BIO: Tania Craan settled in Toronto after graduating from Sheridan College leading to a career as a graphic book designer. After moving to the Kingston region in 2018, she opened the Odessa Project ceramic studio, where she continues to create her art. ARTIST STATMENT: Tania’s ceramics celebrate the natural collaboration of clay and fire. Embracing the barrel and raku firing brings a timelessness and archetypal quality to her contemporary forms. The compass guiding her practice is to create the harmony of shape, form, and function that animates the beauty and life of an object.

V Vallières is a Toronto-based multi-media artist working primarily in ceramics and textiles. They hold a BFA from Concordia University and have attended multiple residencies across Canada. Their work has been funded through various grants, including the Ontario Arts Council, and has been acquired as a part of the permanent collection at Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). The works represented span a period during which Vallières has experimented with the human form - moving from pieces that are recognizably figurative towards the increasingly surreal and fantastical, ...

Trillia is a Graduate of the Ceramics Program at SheridanCollege.   Most recently, Trillia was one of 10 artists selected to participate in the MPG Mentorship with Susan Low-Beer.  The resulting group show “Confluence” washeld in the Gardiner Museum Shop.Trillia is a now a full-time artist. She lives in Thornbury,Ontario. Work images are from the the "Dialogue" Series.

Zoës work consists of illustrated sculptural and functional handbuilt objects that are decorated with colourful glazes, underglaze, and terra sigillata. Her work is handbuilt by pinching, coiling, and slab building using earthenware. She fires her work in an electric kiln to a hot Cone 03, creating more of a toastiness in the red clay. Earthenware is an honour to the earth that we walk on and grow our gardens with, using the deep terracotta to create warmth and depth in her surfaces, luring you into her narratives. Zoë is heavily influenced by historical patterns, tchotchke objects, and ...