JANET MACPHERSON

Janet Macpherson (b. 1974) is an artist who has been working within the realm of sculpture and drawing for over 20 years. She studied ceramics at Sheridan College and earned her MFA from The Ohio State University in 2010. Janet has participated in many group and solo exhibitions throughout Canada and the U.S. including The George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art in Toronto, the Sculpture Center in Cleveland, OH, and more recently at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, CA.

Janet employs animal and plant forms in her sculpture and drawing to create narratives that address the relationship between humans and animals, and culture and nature. She draws inspiration from the hybrid plants and creatures decorating the margins of illuminated manuscripts, and the animals of medieval bestiaries.

Janet has been an artist in residence in the Craft Studios at Harbourfront Centre, in Toronto, and at Zentrum furKeramik in Berlin, Germany. Most recently she was commissioned by the City of Hamilton to create a public mural on the Keddy Access Trail, a bicycle and pedestrian pathway along the Niagara Escarpment.

Janet lives and works in Hamilton, Ontario.