EMMA SMITH
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Emma Smith
I come from a working class family of five, the brick house I grew up in, a simple home with simple things inside. Boot scuffs on an old wooden floor, weathered paint where hundreds of fingerprints ran along the wall each day. A family recipe; the way my nose is just like my mother’s, and how my father’s stubbornness was not lost on me. It is these small parcels of time that I aim to explore and celebrate, using soft clay that shows process and touch. What better material to express the tenderness and resiliency of life than one which is equally malleable and solid. I fire my work in a wood burning kiln, decorated with stylized patterns from my day to day. The texture of fungi on a log, animal tracks in the snow, and the criss cross on the man hole cover at the end of my driveway are small intricacies that make up the world around me. They have made me too.
Wood Fired Ceramic Vase - 10.5”H x 5”W
"Emma Smith is a multi award winning ceramic artist living and working in Jerseyville ON. After studying ceramics at Sheridan College and Haliburton School of the Arts, she worked as an apprentice for Gleasonbrook Pottery in 2013 with potter Timothy Smith. Emma exhibits her work internationally, and teaches workshops across Ontario. Her functional and sculptural work are reflections of community and family dynamics – the experiences that shape the way we see the world, the people who come in and out of our lives, and the physical spaces that form the backdrop of our memories."