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.
Emily is a ceramic artist and designer based in Toronto. She is interested in making work along the continuum of sculpture, and design.
The span of her work converges on themes of structure, space and materiality. Influences can be seen of architecture, and the absurd. Emily's ongoing series Is Space, explores questions of the fabric of the universe; the notion of ‘what is space?’ and related concepts such as dimension, force, and transit. Rooted in an abstract visual language and artificial colours, the series presents abstruse hypothetical scenes. Forms, structures, and architectural referents are arranged into curious compositions, implying an event, or impending motion. They take inspiration from physics and cosmology diagrams, and offer humour to contrast her glib feelings of these fatuitous times.
Propelled equally by creative pursuit and technical investigation, Emily applies innovative methods of digital fabrication along with traditional hand building techniques. Lately she has been looking into the inclusion of AI to the design process, which gives the opportunity to introduce uncertainty while defining the parameters of the concept. She is presently thinking about ways to use structure and scale to create an installation offering a sense of environment.
Cold House
Stoneware, Slip, Glaze;
29 cm x 33 cm x 28 cm; 2019
Cold House (alternate view)
Stoneware, Slip, Glaze; 29 cm x 33 cm x 28 cm; 2019
Brutalist cachepots
Porcelain, Glaze, CNC Mould Slipcasting; 26 cm x 26 cm x 26 cm; 2020
Brutalist cachepot (detail view)
Porcelain, Glaze, CNC Mould Slipcasting;
26 cm x 26 cm x 26 cm; 2020
Hypothetical #1
Stoneware, Porcelain, Slip, Glaze; 53 cm x 31 cm x 19 cm; 2021
Structure
Stoneware, Glaze; 36 cm x 25 cm x 25 cm; 2021
Freehand
Stoneware, Slip; 36 cm x 25 cm x 19 cm; 2019
Hypothetical #2
Stoneware, Porcelain, Slip, Glaze; 43 cm x 37 cm x 12 cm; 2021
Grid Structure #10
Stoneware, Glaze;
29 cm x 35 cm x 26 cm; 2020
Space Warp
Stoneware, Slip;
66 cm x 32 cm x 32 cm; 2019
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.