BIO
Heather Lippold is a ceramic artist and studio technician in British Columbia. She moved from the prairies to the West Coast over 16 years ago in the pursuit of her BFA, graduating from Emily Carr University in 2013. It was during that time that she fell in love with the local clay community and became a founding member of the Dusty Babes Collective.
Heather is on the board of the Potters Guild of British Columbia and is an active volunteer kiln technician for the PGBC community gas kiln. She spent 7 years working as a ceramics technician and instructional associate for Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Shas attended residencies in Denmark (Guldagergaard Ceramics Center), Burnaby (Shadbolt Center for the Arts) and Medicine Hat Alberta (Medalta AIR). She currently lives and works on the ancestral territories of the Skwxwú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) in Gibsons, BC.
Her studio is located in upper Gibsons at The Kube. You can find her work there.
My Work
My work weaves between sculptural and functional with a recent emphasis on more functional objects that integrate into daily rituals. It celebrates the ordinary transforming functional items into sources of aesthetic pleasure. My work is primarily high fired in a gas kiln which embraces the unexpected as an essential element of my artistic practice. Each piece becomes a unique collaboration with the kiln. I like to experiment with my glazes, using wood ash, recycled copper, eggshells and other seemingly uncommon ingredients.
