Formerly the Ontario Crafts Council, Craft Ontario is a not-for-profit service organization that works to have craft recognized as a valuable part of life. We promote and celebrate professional craft through providing member opportunities, and advocate for craft practice by educating and empowering diverse audiences.
Lauren’s Stacked works have come from exploring the marriage of slab and thrown work in the same piece, and from her love of playing in the waves of overlap between function and sculpture. The Stacks are sets of bowls which can stand on their sides for display, lie flat to be plinths for other objects, or be stacked to make a unique pillar. She also loves the idea of performing a simple action, like eating breakfast, out of a unique sculptural object, and sprucing up a bookshelf with tableware.
Lauren has a BFA Majoring in Ceramics from NSCAD University in Halifax, NS, and studied in China with WVU Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute summer program. She had her first solo ceramics show at the Carnegie Gallery, in Dundas ON, in May 2015, from winning Dundas Arts Weekend emerging artist competition. She has recently returned from participating in her second residency where she continued to explore and push her Stacked work. Lauren was awarded the John Farnan award from the Dundas Valley School of art this past April and is applying to MFA programs for September 2018.
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Stacked: Floating Fountain Set
Thrown, slab-built and carved porcelain, glaze, oxides, cone 10 reduction fired, 2017
35x25x25
Stacked: Floating Fountain Set - Detail
Thrown, slab-built and carved porcelain, glaze, oxides, cone 10 reduction fired, 2017
35x25x25
Stacked: Interwoven
Thrown, slab-built and carved porcelain, glaze, cone 10 reduction fired, 2017
23x23x23
Stacked: Interwoven - detail
Thrown, slab-built and carved porcelain, glaze, cone 10 reduction fired, 2017
23x23x23
Stacked V II
Thrown, slab-built and carved porcelain, glaze, oxides, cone 10 reduction fired, 2017
30x23x23
Stacked V II - Detail
Thrown, slab-built and carved porcelain, glaze, oxides, cone 10 reduction fired, 2017
10x22x22, 10x21x21, 10x20x20
Stacked: Triple Lotus Set
Thrown, slab-built and carved porcelain, glaze, oxides, cone 10 reduction fired, 2016
31x23x23
Stacked: Triple Lotus Set - Detail - Middle bowl on side - back view
Thrown, slab-built and carved porcelain, glaze, oxides, cone 10 reduction fired, 2016
10x23x23
Stacked: Original
Thrown, slab-built and carved stoneware, glaze, wood-fired, 2015
21x18x18
Stacked: Original - Detail shot from first series
Thrown, slab-built and carved stoneware, glaze, wood-fired, 2015
5x18x18, 5x18x18, 5x18x18, 10x20x20
Formerly the Ontario Crafts Council, Craft Ontario is a not-for-profit service organization that works to have craft recognized as a valuable part of life. We promote and celebrate professional craft through providing member opportunities, and advocate for craft practice by educating and empowering diverse audiences.