Samantha Dickie

My ceramic art practise uses abstraction, minimalism and multiplicity to create large-scale sculptures, and multi-component installations that explore materiality within a specific conceptual framework for public exhibition and commission. My aesthetic approach to form and surface is rooted in my personal politics and my dedication to materiality. My intention is to preserve the natural qualities of clay in the finished piece: its raw tactility, visceral nature, and organic characteristics. Concurrently, my feminist values serve as an ethical framework through which imperfection is celebrated as beauty. By asserting a sense of intentional unadornment in my work, the handmade marks, raw surfaces and natural flaws are purposefully preserved. Framing this aesthetic is a more theoretical investigation of how this earth-based material embodies an animacy akin to living matter, at an atomic and physical level. This malleable creative medium that can be imprinted, polished and scraped, torn paper-thin, or layered thick and gritty, that crystalizes in the kiln, has a fascinating ability to embody an energy that is resonant, calming, and grounding. I predominantly work with multiplicity because it allows me to create architectures that encourage embodied responses, while abstraction invites a quality of inquisitiveness. I seek to create installation environments that permeate this alchemy and animacy for both artist and viewer. Creating individual small work is new, and awesome!
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