Amelia Butcher will be our invited speaker at our meeting on Thursday, October 10. Amelia Butcher is a Vancouver-based visual artist and educator with a sculptural, pottery, writing and drawing practice centered in clay. A 2013 graduate of Emily Carr University, she is a founding member of the Dusty Babes Collective and a dedicated volunteer kiln tech at the Potters Guild of BC community kiln. She makes artwork about worms, women, weeds and Frankenstein, exhibiting widely and instructing classes and workshops in clay and comic-making for all ages. For more on Amelia, please see her website here.
I am a visual artist with a practice centered in clay, in particular reduction-fired porcelain and stoneware. Sculpture, figuration, illustration and pottery swim together freely in my work. I’m a maker led by craft, material and narrative. I play with the slippage between 2D and 3D, drawing and sculpture, fiction and non-fiction, trying to make objects that are self-conscious of their own act of making and capture moments of transfiguration.
Amelia Butcher and Swimmer.
Amelia Butcher. Left: Volcano Bucket. Right: Reader.