Nilou Ghaemi
BIO
Nilou Ghaemi was born in Tehran, Iran and immigrated to Canada as a teenager. She received a BDes from OCADU in Graphic Design and Photography in 2015. After practicing as a graphic designer professionally she returned to school to pursue a career in ceramics. She is currently living and practicing in Tkaronto/Toronto after finishing her fourth year of a ceramics undergraduate program at Sheridan College.
CAPSTONE PROJECT
NILOU GHAEMI
Clay is a shapeshifting material, both fragile and seemingly everlasting, ideal for exploring ideas and experiences around decay, ephemerality and memory. My work as a graphic designer prior to pursuing ceramics influences my creation and production processes. I utilize a multidisciplinary approach using drawn elements and digitally-manipulated photographs to create a scaffold for the surface treatment of the work. My sculptural ceramic works capture the internal reflection on relationships with the self and others. The work is created by pulling imagery from photographs and transforming them through the textures of raw clay and colour. My work is an amalgamation of perceived reality and fantasy, dissolving boundaries between time and space, memory and myth, belonging and estrangement.
FEATURED Work
Title: Lovers' Picnic
Dimensions: 22 x 42 x 1.5 in.
Year: 2023
Materials: ceramic
Title: Lovers' Picnic detail
Dimensions: 22 x 42 x 1.5 in.
Year: 2023
Materials: ceramic