Yukon Ceramic Artists | Bowl: Hands in Clay

Apr 20

Yukon Ceramic Artists
coordinated by Kin Work Pottery
Bowl: Hands in Clay

FOCUS & EDGE GALLERIES, MAY 12 - JUNE 3, 2023

Humbly beginning as an improvement from cupped hands and folded leaves, the Neolithic era brought forth the bowl as a drinking vessel. The bowl now holds a place in domesticity, ritual, ceremony, and art.

When learning to throw on a wheel, potters find the bowl form is a challenge. The centrifugal force of the potter’s wheel pulls the walls of the vessel outwards to collapse.

It is with practice and skill that the potter can use this force to their advantage and shape the clay as they want.

Clay hand-builders take simple coils or slabs of clay and mold them with a thousand fingerprints into a bowl vessel that can perform a thousand tasks.

The handmade ceramic bowl is a testament to time, dedication, and artistry.

From simple to intricate, the bowl is a ubiquitous part of life that we invite you to look closer at.

BIO

A Yukon collective of ceramic artists and clay enthusiasts coming together to share where their clay curiosity and pottery practice is currently taking them. This is the third annual open call, ceramic group show this pottery community has come together to share. Many of the potters participating are active volunteers and instructors at the community studio at Arts Underground.

Featured Artists:
Maya Auguste
Brianne Bremner
Annie Broadhurst
Philomene Campeau-Levesque
Leighann Chalykoff
Amberley Cooke
Anne-Patrice Cross
Roma Dobrowolsky
Trish Fontaine
Elisabeth Fritsch
Marie Hammje
Claire Hill
Carole Lagace
Angela Lehwald
Briana Mackay
Lisa Moore
Chris Scherbarth
Claire Strauss
Debi Wickham
Kelly Wroot