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• My studio practice engages explores ways in which clay, in its ceramic form, conveys “static motion.” Clay is inherently of the human body – the sediment of millennia. The medium reinforces the physicality of the implicit corporeal themes of ailment and recovery. My sculpture confronts vitality in juxtaposition to lethargy, and the invisibility of chronic pain. Each piece is a personal manifestation of self at a specific moment in time during the healing process.

• About Heidi Mckenzie

  Heidi McKenzie is an emerging ceramic artist currently enrolled in the second year of the Sheridan Advanced Diploma in Crafts and Design Ceramics Program. In 2009, Heidi rekindled her childhood passion for clay and at mid-life embarked on a three-month residency at the foothills of the Himalayas in India with Mansimran Singh, student of iconic British potter, Bernard Leach. In the spring of 2010, Heidi left behind her arts consultancy practice and fully committed to her new life path as an artist.
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