About Lindsay Gravelle
Lindsay Gravelle has been making pottery since 2016 when she was invited to join a friend for a local pottery class. What started as a fun hobby quickly turned into a career centered around clay. She worked as a pottery teacher, studio facilitator and technician with YWCA Toronto’s Inspirations Studio, The Toronto School of Art, and Toronto Potters Studio. Her educational background includes a BA from the University of Western Ontario (2009), two years of Ceramics education from Sheridan College (2019) and a Masters of Education in Adult Education and Community Development from OISE (2021).
Lindsay is currently based in the Kawartha Lakes where she works out of a home-studio in Lindsay, Ontario. Her ceramics combine elements of wheel throwing and hand building and often include illustrations and detailed glaze decorations. From her background in drawing and painting, Lindsay uses sgraffito over multi-layered slips, with underglaze and glaze painting to animate the surface. Often referencing family and found photographs and collected pop culture ephemera, each piece is intended to evoke a hazy memory, creating an emotional link, or a relation to the ceramic object beyond its use value. Exploring clay and glaze chemistry is a large part of her practice which allows her to push the materials to their limits and play with the illustrations – obscuring some details and blurring the imagery – evoking fading memories that stand in contrast to the permanence of the ceramic object.
