BIO

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Carlee Thompson (b. 1999 Victoria, BC) is an emerging artist working as a guest on the unceded lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations. Their artistic practice spans across multiple mediums, including ceramics, photography and painting. As a production potter, Thompson uses both wheel throwing and slip casting methods to create functional wares, emphasizing repetition and uniformity. In contrast to utilitarian design their practice explores the interaction between shape and space, investigating the physicality of objects through texture, colour and fragmentation. Connective forms, vibrant color palettes, and sharp-edged shapes, create decisive action within a visual language. These recurring motifs of materiality intersect with digital documentation to question and exaggerate contemporary experiences. 

Thompson received their BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design in 2022 and has been the recipient of  Renée Van Helm + Pietro Widmer Graduation Award for Visual Arts (2022), the Jessie Allan Forsyth Memorial Scholarship (2019) and, the Clay Foundation Visual Arts Award (2018).