www.amandabuderceramics.ca
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| | Amanda Buder Biography I have always been a creative person and growing up I favored all my art classes above others. But it wasn't until I took a fine art elective in university that I made my choice to pursue the fine arts for the rest of my life. I switched my major from general arts to fine arts and graduated with my Bachelors of Fine Arts in 2008 from Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops BC. Since graduating I have been a part of an invitational group exhibition, I have had two solo exhibitions and I have curated a group exhibition of ceramic sculpture. I have taken some time to travel to foreign destinations like France, Germany and South America. Back at home I volunteered as a board member for Arnica Artist Run Centre for two years and have been working as a film artist as well as a ceramic one. I have been shortlisted for the Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Artist in Residence program. I create my pottery at my own studio in Kamloops and my work can be found in galleries and shops in Kamloops and Vancouver. Artist Statement My pottery and sculptures are porcelain vessels of whimsy and delicacy. They represent the visual inspiration I receive from the patterns and structures of plants and ocean invertebrates. Random patterning in nature is a large influence and something I look at very closely and attempt to imitate. I study the skins of vegetables and gardens of flowers for example. I enjoy comparing bones and porcelain by casting sprig molds of skulls and fish bones. I am fascinated with hybrids of plants and animals and fantasize about creating mutant life-forms from combining plant and invertebrate DNA. These thoughts manifest into my ceramic sculptures where I apply all of my hand-building techniques in clay to create them. My pottery and art work are a celebration of growth and fertility combined with the unexpected. I push the clay to form delicate shapes as far as it will go. |
