Concrete Celadon Bowl

Sam Knopp

Concrete Celadon Bowl

2018

Ceramic

Material matters. I am interested in the somatic experience and the tacit knowledge that comes from a user’s interaction with an object. The clay body has the potential to be more than just the means to create a form or the surface to adorn. I have long been interested in the clay body as a communicative vehicle with its own unique colours and textures and much of my practice is spent making, mixing, layering and laminating different clays together for unexpected material and tactile experiences. These two pieces show two different clays I've mixed; one to reference the commonplace building material of concrete and the other actually utilizing another common building material (bricks) into the clay body. I like contrasting these rough and even crude clay bodies with a clean approach to form and simple glazing for a marriage of opposites that bring out and question the qualities of each other.

About the artist: Sam Knopp is a ceramic artist working outside of Edmonton, Canada. Studying at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver (BFA 2013) she was the recipient of the Circle Craft Graduation Award and the BMO First Art Award. Doing residencies and workshops at the Medalta Historic Clay District, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and Banff Centre for the Arts she has pursued both a functional and sculptural practice exhibiting and selling work across Canada and the United States. In 2015 she was awarded the Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award for Emerging Artist in Craft and Design and is currently working towards her first solo exhibition at the Stony Plain Art Gallery.

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