A woman with short blonde hair wearing a patterned blazer and a white top, smiling, in a professional setting.

AMBER ZUBER

Amber Zuber is a Canadian artist based in Norfolk County, Ontario. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from McMaster University and studied ceramics at Sheridan College, School of Craft & Design. In 2017 she received her MA in Ceramics from the Royal College of Art, London, England.

Since graduating, she has transitioned from the city to a rural studio practice. Her home and barn studio are situated among mature trees, dark skies, and native gardens that support insects and birds.

Zuber has exhibited in Canada and internationally including the U.K., Germany, and France. She has presented solo exhibitions at the Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery (Courtyard), Harbourfront Centre (Craft), and the Gardiner Museum (Lobby). She has travelled to Denmark and Estonia for ceramic residencies and was also a full-time artist-in-residence at Harbourfront Centre in downtown Toronto.

ARTIST STATEMENT

I seek a dynamic and collaborative relationship with clay, the core material of my practice. Working abstractly and directly with the material in different stages of plasticity, my process is physical, intuitive, and emotional. I stretch, rip, roll and push the material to collapse and near ruin in search of new aesthetic possibilities. The hand of the artist is wholly evident, even aggressively obvious, as my fingers are my primary tools. Chance, immediacy, and risk are integral to the work, so is my body. I feel while I am making what I cannot say and I hope to make visible the impossible to describe.

A dark, sculptural piece resembling an abstract animal figure with a large arch and flowing, layered textures, set against a white background.

A building exterior with a wooden slat wall, yellow tiled wall, and a wooden door with glass panel.

Abstract sculpture resembling a circular form with layered, ridged surfaces, painted in pastel shades of white, pink, green, and hints of blue, set against a dark background.

An art installation made of numerous colorful shoes densely packed and mounted on a frame outdoors.

A white and gray abstract sculpture with swirling and textured patterns.

An elderly man with glasses, smiling, wearing a black t-shirt and a smartwatch, working with clay at a workbench in a workshop.

TONY CLENNELL

Tony Clennell is a second-generation potter with an MFA from Utah State University. He has exhibited and taught workshops internationally in Europe, Asia and most recently Mexico. Tony has participated in residencies in China, Japan and North America and was the Peter Voulkos Artist in Residence at Archie Bray in 2024. A member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Tony has spent his career in ceramics as a potter, writer and educator.

An avid cyclist, gardener and storyteller, Tony is the author of Stuck in the Mud, a book he describes as “irreverent tales, BS, and nonsense.” His writing has also appeared in leading ceramic journals, including Ceramics Monthly, Clay Times, Pottery Making Illustratedand Studio Potter.

Ancient ceramic teapot with a rounded body, short spout, large handle, and a small lid, exhibiting a crackled glaze and earthy colors.

A ceramic pitcher with a marbled glaze in earthy tones, featuring a small handle on the right side, set against a plain white background.

Ancient ceramic jug with a round body, narrow neck, and handle, glazed in earthy tones with crackled and dripping glaze effects by Tony Clennell.

An elderly woman with short curly hair, glasses, and a black jacket speaking at a podium with a microphone, gesturing with her hands, in front of a wall with a display about Marguerite Lamond, featuring photographs and text.

MARGUERITE LARMAND

Marguerite Larmand spent her youth in a farming community near Georgian Bay, Ontario, a place that had great influence on her connections with the natural world.

Following a BA in Art History & Studio Practice and an MA in Education, Larmand chose Installation Art as a way of responding and connecting with her community.

Larmand’s art is governed by its content and it is through selective materials, techniques and arrangement that an observer interprets the meaning.

Themes such as memory and metaphor are integral to her work.

Larmand is of French and Ojibwa heritage and a member of the Metis Nation of Ontario. Through her milestone 2025 exhibition at the Midland Cultural Centre, Gallery of Indigenous Art, Marguerite began her quest to discover what it means to be Metis today.

"And the seeds like in wait……." 2017
Hand woven linen, rust dyeing, linen and wool yarn. Hand embroidered.

"Ancestral Memory" 2025/26
Hand felted and sewn

"Curtain" 2018
Linen, plant-dyed silk and cotton, hand sewn

"Glacier Calving", 2020
Willow, paint, silk, glue

A man with a beard in a white shirt and baseball cap standing outdoors in front of a wooden fence and brick wall.

ANDREW KELLNER

Andrew Kellner has worked in ceramics for more than two decades. He studied at Sheridan College, Alberta College of Art and Design, and West Virginia University, where he earned his Master of Fine Arts.

Andrew teaches ceramics and works as a technician for Art Gallery of Burlington while maintaining a studio practice. He has participated in residencies at Archie Bray in Montana and Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts in Maine. He currently lives and make work in Hamilton, Ontario, using locally sourced clays that he fires to Cone 1 in a small urban wood kiln of his own construction.

ANDREW KELLNER

A woman with curly gray hair, wearing glasses, smiling in a room with shelves of decorative objects behind her and sunlight coming through a window.

CATHLEEN NICHOLSON

Cathleen Nicholson graduated from the Sheridan College School of Crafts and Design in 1997, after which she stayed on as a resident student artist and a multi-year residency in the legendary ceramic studio. Her beginning as a teaching assistant developed into a teaching position in the art fundamentals program and eventually teaching throughout the full time ceramic program, landing on an intermediate throwing and atmospheric firing class for the last 8 years. At the same time, Cathleen developed classes and taught ceramics to children and adults at Crack Pot Studio, a community studio in Oakville from 1996 to present day. Cathleen brings modestly and solid skills mixed with humour, dedication and sincerity.