Courtney Leonard Ceramics

Courtney m leonard art ceramicist and multimedia artist courtney m.

Courtney leonard ceramics. She reimagines fishing nets and traps through weaving together clay coils in a similar fashion to traditional fiber baskets. Leonard is a part of the offshore art movement a trend concerned with global climate change and its effects on the conditions of the oceans and their shorelines. Leonard is a shinnecock artist born in 1980 and raised on her shinnecock nation homelands located on what is now referred to as long island. Website by otherpeoplespixels courtney m.

Her pottery is meticulously crafted to contain historical and cultural references but also to make the viewer reflect on their own relationship with nature and sustainability. Leonard creates delicate ceramic sculptures grounded in the forms and histories of indigenous fishing technologies. This is one of her clay sperm whale teeth. Her art manages to be both poetic and political and also simultaneously personal and universal garth johnson curator of ceramics asu art museum phoenix az.

Leonard has been called one of the strongest emerging voices in the field of ceramics today. Leonard is one of the strongest emerging voices in the field of ceramics today said johnson. Her art manages to be both poetic and political and also simultaneously personal.