Pippa Samsworth
BIO
Pippa Samsworth is a ceramic artist from Oakville, Ontario. Sentimentality and nostalgia play a large role in Pippa’s illustrative ceramics. After graduating from Sheridan’s Craft and Design Program, Pippa will continue working with clay at the Ye11ow Studio in Picton, Ontario.
CAPSTONE PROJECT
MEMORY LANE
I cherish the complex entanglement of emotions in memory, acknowledging the weight they carry whilst preserving their integrity. Time passes, life changes, and memories fade. Clay has become a way to document and preserve specific moments in time, forever frozen, untouched. My work plays with themes of nostalgia, place, family, nature, and storytelling through sweet and poignant ceramic objects, sculptural and functional. Though personal, my work invites you to peer intrinsically within your own nostalgic memories and experiences. I think there is something very powerful in being sentimental. It allows an opening for tenderness that is often hidden within; accessing the bittersweet twang of time, honouring precious moments of togetherness.
FEATURED Work
Title: Strangers on the Shore
Dimensions: 46 x 28 cm
Year: 2021
Materials: Press moulded, low-fire earthenware
Title: Strangers on the Shore (detail)
Title: Oakville Harbour (detail)
Title: Oakville Harbour
Dimensions: 46 x 28 cm
Year: 2021
Materials: Press moulded, low-fire earthenware
Title: Beaverstone Bay
Dimensions: 46 x 28 cm
Year: 2020
Materials: Press moulded, low-fire earthenware
Title: Tiny Town
Dimensions: Each piece approx. 5 cm tall
Year: 2021
Materials: Hand-built, various glazes
Title: Lost in the Trees
Dimensions: 30 x 25 cm
Year: 2020
Materials: Hand-built, low-fire earthenware
Title: The Chickens
Dimensions: 46 x 28 cm
Year: 2020
Materials: Press moulded, low-fire earthenware
Title: Studio People
Dimensions: 43 x 43 x 5 cm
Year: 2021
Materials: Thrown platter with majolica and stains