Janet Macpherson Ceramics

Janet macpherson 2014 award.

Janet macpherson ceramics.

Toronto canadian ceramist janet macpherson s latest exhibition janet macpherson. For six years she maintained a studio practice in toronto making functional ceramics participating in exhibitions and selling her work at various toronto galleries. Dozens upon dozens of plaster moulds line the shelves of janet macpherson s studio on geary avenue. Mirabilia a new collection of ceramic objects.

Alumna and ceramics faculty member janet macpherson recognized as nceca emerging artists of 2018. It alludes to links between wonder pleasure and the human appetite for the rare and the strange. This new collection of ceramic objects invites an encounter with the marvelous the monstrous and the hybrid. The ceramic art of janet macpherson.

Congratulations to sheridan alumna and ceramics faculty member janet macpherson on being recognized as one of the nceca emerging artists of 2018. Janet has exhibited her work extensively in canada and the united states and was the 2013 recipient of the winifred shantz award for ceramics. Sheep head another and a concise but slightly troubling arms. Janet s most recent solo exhibition titled janet macpherson.

Rbc emerging artists studio setup award. This land like a mirror turns you inward. Sit stand kneel 2019. Janet macpherson began studying ceramics at sheridan college in 1999 while living in toronto ontario.

Watch ceramist janet macpherson known for her fantastical porcelain creatures demonstrate the process of slip casting using moulds. The gardiner museum presented the exhibition janet macpherson. The barrie born artist is preparing for her next exhibition at the gardiner museum and nearly every surface is covered in her signature spliced ceramic animals the haunting figurines she. Janet macpherson studied ceramics at sheridan college and earned her mfa at the ohio state university.

The national council on education for the ceramic arts nceca is a dynamic organization that engages and sustains a community for ceramic art teaching. Janet macpherson is ceramic artist based in toronto ontario. May 30 june 21 2015 opening may 30 from 2 4 pm. A canadian bestiary at the gardiner museum toronto february 16 may 21 2017 weaves a narrative of expansion exploitation and the complexity of the human experience through a menagerie of bound and bandaged critters.