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Annika Hoefs grew up near Waterdown, Ontario. Her enthusiasm for clay began during her time Mini Bud Vase in White studying Textile Design at OCAD University. After $30 / $24 Gardiner Friends graduating with a Bachelor of Material Art & Design, she moved away from textiles and followed her passion for clay. She teaches at the Gardiner BUY NOW ONLINE Museum, ClayArt Studios, and the Mississauga Potters’ Guild; where she is a studio member.
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Carolyn Bloomer is a Toronto-based ceramist who creates one-of-a-kind, small-edition porcelain tableware and ceramic art pieces. A graduate of OCAD University, she is drawn to the silky, almost luminescent quality of porcelain.
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Glass macarons About the Artist $20 each / $16 Gardiner Friends Janet Panabaker lives and works in Kingston, BUY NOW ONLINE Ontario. After years of exhibiting her paintings, she began experimenting with fused glass and was immediately hooked. She is renowned for her whimsical sculptural still lifes, which are truly a feast for the eyes.
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About the Artist About the Artist Toronto-born designer Michelle Ross fuses original design with a nostalgic sensibility to Jill Cribbin launched herself into the world of glass create her collection of contemporary jewellery. flame working over ten years ago at an intensive Adorning a faithful following since 2003, Ross Chicklette Necklace in Multi Colour workshop at Urban Glass in Brooklyn, New York. uses semi-precious stones and metals juxtaposed She currently works from her studio in Stratford, with glass, ceramics, and vintage findings to $440 / $352 Gardiner Friends Ontario, creating stunning and wearable glass produce each unique piece. jewellery inspired by urban shapes and forms. BUY NOW ONLINE SHOP ALL WORKS BY MICHELLE ROSS SHOP ALL WORKS BY JILL CRIBBIN $40 and under Mug with Stone Handle Queenie (Kun Xu) $40 / $32 Gardiner Friends Scott Barnim
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Scott Barnim graduated with a Masters of Fine About the Artist Arts (MFA) degree in Ceramics from the University of Wales Institute in Cardiff, Wales. His degree Queenie (Kun Xu) is a ceramic designer and Mug with work involved the development of colour and Small Charcuterie Tray with maker currently based in Toronto, Ontario. Ceramic Handle surface in soda and salt glazed stoneware and Red Flower Motif Raised in China, Queenie received her BFA from porcelain. Barnim’s current work is primarily the Jingdezhen Ceramics Institute of Industrial $40 / $32 Gardiner Friends decorated stoneware, as well as some raku, slip $25 / $20 Gardiner Friends Design in 2012. In 2014, Queenie moved to decorated earthenware, and majolica. His work is Canada and graduated from Sheridan College’s BUY NOW ONLINE available through galleries in Winnipeg, Toronto, BUY NOW ONLINE Ceramics Program in Oakville, Ontario. and other locations across Ontario.
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About the Artist The LUprints workshop is located in the mountains of British Columbia About the Artist where its principal designer, Ulla Jordan Scott is a London, Ontario-based potter Clark, creates a line of home good and a graduate of the Sheridan College Ceramics Splashware Cup with a modern Scandinavian- Program. His work is an amalgamation of curiosi- $40 / $32 Gardiner Friends Canadian style. The Gardiner Shop ties and sensitive material awareness, with strong commissioned a tea towel based on a anthropological connections. He experiments BUY NOW ONLINE blue-and-white jar in our Macdonald with how things are discovered, catalogued, Collection of Japanese porcelain. restored, curated, put on display, observed, It’s the perfect gift for any porcelain and put into storage, where the process is later lover or Gardiner enthusiast. repeated from a new perspective.
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Originally from Seoul, Korea, Joon Hee Kim is a Canadian artist who began her journey as a graphic designer. She is the recipient of Snowball face sculpture, blue numerous awards including both Best of Ceramics and Best of Craft & Design $50 / $40 Gardiner Friends at the Toronto Outdoor Art Fair in 2018, and the prestigious 2020 BUY NOW ONLINE Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramics.
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Eiko Maeda
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About the Artist Oval Vessel with American Goldfinch Originally from Japan, ceramist Eiko Maeda currently works out of her About the Artist $40 / $32 Gardiner Friends home studio in Woodbridge, Ontario. She strives to express in her work the Lisa Creskey is a ceramist and painter who lives elegance, beauty, and delicacy of and works in Chelsea, Québec. Investigating BUY NOW ONLINE Japanese culture. Maeda has become themes of nature, history and time, her work has well-known for her use of a Japanese been exhibited in Canada and internationally. She decorative technique called nerikomi, was a finalist in the Korea International Ceramic which involves stacking of coloured Biennale KICB2019, and was awarded a residency clay and then slicing through the in the 2019 Taiwan Ceramics Residency Program cross section to reveal a pattern. She hosted by the New Taipai City Yingge Ceramics was featured in a video by CBC Arts Museum. demonstrating her process.
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Born in Hokkaido, Japan, Québec-based ceramist Maude Blais was born in the Lower Saint Lawrence, Québec. In 2004, she graduated from the Centre de céramique Bonsecours in Montreal. Makiko Hicher creates beautiful stoneware Serving Bowl in Chocolate objects with simple and elegant shapes in harmony She has lived and worked in Causapscal in the heart of the Matapedia with nature. Her stoneware pieces are inspired by $40 / $32 Gardiner Friends Valley since 2015. Blais creates handmade ceramic objects, both the rugged landscapes of Japan and Canada. utilitarian and decorative, with a simplified aesthetic, prioritizing BUY NOW ONLINE clean lines and color. Fascinated by the nature that surrounds her, Blais' work is based largely on botany and the marine world. SHOP ALL WORKS BY MAKIKO HICHER SHOP ALL WORKS BY MAUDE BLAIS $100 and under
Shu-Chen Cheng Cassandra Ciarallo for Chic Made Consciously
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Chic Made Consciously (CMC) was founded by Cassandra Ciarallo, who has a passion for About the Artist fashion design, sustainability, and helping small communities abroad thrive. Ciarallo, who is from Originally from Taiwan, Shu-Chen Toronto, was inspired to connect with artisans Cheng is a primarily self-taught abroad after her travels through South East Asia. ceramic artist who works out of her She met Art Cycle Bali, a group that was home studio in Hamilton, Ontario. re-purposing tires into beautiful jewellery and Her award-winning Raku vessels accessories. Through partnership and are sought after by collectors in collaboration, she has helped them expand their Canada and abroad. business into North America.
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Toronto-based artist Mary McKenzie received her BFA from the University of Alberta and was the recipient of the 2010 Gardiner Museum Award at the Sheridan Graduate Show. At About the Artist Sheridan College, she received the Pouring Vessel in Green Hong Kong-born Christy Chor is a recent graduate William and Mary Corcoran Award, Cup Set with Spoon & Saucer $80 / $64 Gardiner Friends from the Ceramics Program at Sheridan College. Silent Night Award, and Board of Inspired by nature, she sees each piece as being Governors Award. McKenzie was $72 / $57.60 Gardiner Friends BUY NOW ONLINE embedded with a soul that transcends the artist Shary Boyle’s studio assistant. boundaries of language, race, and social differences. BUY NOW ONLINE SHOP ALL WORKS BY MARY MCKENZIE SHOP ALL WORKS BY CHRISTY CHOR Holiday
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