Courtney Leonard Ceramics

Courtney m leonard art ceramicist and multimedia artist courtney m.

Courtney leonard ceramics.

Leonard is a shinnecock artist born in 1980 and raised on her shinnecock nation homelands located on what is now referred to as long island. Leonard is one of the strongest emerging voices in the field of ceramics today said johnson. Leonard creates delicate ceramic sculptures grounded in the forms and histories of indigenous fishing technologies. Her art manages to be both poetic and political and also simultaneously personal and universal garth johnson curator of ceramics asu art museum phoenix az.

Leonard is a part of the offshore art movement a trend concerned with global climate change and its effects on the conditions of the oceans and their shorelines. She reimagines fishing nets and traps through weaving together clay coils in a similar fashion to traditional fiber baskets. This is one of her clay sperm whale teeth. Leonard shinnecock nation is an installation and multi media artist.

Leonard is a member of the shinnecock nation of long island new york a community with historic cultural ties to whales water and material sustainability recurring themes throughout her extensive body of internationally acclaimed work. Her pottery is meticulously crafted to contain historical and cultural references but also to make the viewer reflect on their own relationship with nature and sustainability. Website by otherpeoplespixels courtney m.