“McKenzie describes much of her work as abstract portraiture, which allows her to reflect on a wide range of cultures and conditions in a ‘non-figurative, abstract, minimalist art that everyone can relate to.” McKenzie’s process is equally fluid, oscillating between hand-built sculpture and the slipcast or wheel-thrown functional wares currently sold at ceramic shops worldwide. “My work is really disparate, but I like the variety,” she says. “lots of potters have a signature look and they’re making that ten hours a day for twenty years. I’m not that person I like to switch things up constantly.”
— excerpt by Randi Bergman
“Even my pots.. they’re not just pots, they’re an expression of a story I have inside of me.” Heidi McKenzie”
“Heidi McKenzie, Est. 2012”
Toronto Makes: The Things We Love and the People Who Make Them
Randi Bergman, pp. 98-101.
This is a page spread in a lovely coffee table book that just came out!
For Sale on Indigo and Amazon and at Heidi’s gallerist, Guildworks in Prince Edward County.
