Katie Maloney
Growing up on my family’s farm in Tidewater Virginia, I observed and interacted daily with the natural world. My animal ceramics intend to share this personal connection to landscape and encourage my audience to remember wild spaces. I sculpt animals who are presented in gestures of quiet significance, invoking introspection about our relationship to animals, nature, and each other. Many of my pieces include a vessel, which I have often wheel-thrown, altered, and carved to integrate with the animal form and become functional in the domestic setting. I enjoy using multiple types of clay, glazing, and firing methods with a primary focus on cone 6 oxidation and cone 10 wood firing. These methods add variation to my clay surfaces, helping to achieve that fascinating moment where symmetry and randomness are one.
Studio 6
