Georgina Lohan
Georgina Lohan is a multidisciplinary artist based in Vancouver, BC, primarily working in porcelain sculpture. Her diverse practice is built upon extensive exploration and experimentation with materials, leveraging a rich background that includes printmaking, carving, casting, hot glass, textiles, set & costume design, and jewelry in addition to painting, drawing, and functional ceramics.
Lohan is a graduate of Capilano College, (now Capilano University), where she completed studies in Studio Art and Advanced Printmaking. A self-taught ceramicist, she established her first clay studio in 2007. She has since exhibited widely, featuring solo shows at prominent Vancouver venues such as the Craft Council of BC’s Crafthouse Gallery and the Vancouver Museum.
Her work has garnered national and international recognition, featured in numerous curated and juried group exhibitions. These include a recognized presence at Il Museo in Vancouver, the Salt Spring Island Ceramic Awards, and international appearances at the prestigious Palazzo Ca Zanardi in Venice, Italy. These exhibitions highlight a deep technical expertise and active engagement within the contemporary sculpture and ceramic communities.
The sensuous nature of working with clay connects me with my body, its feelings, experiences, and memories. A dialog between the personal and the universal connects questions of existence & equality, psychology & evolution, the fragment & unity, and helps contextualize the effects of advanced industrialization on human development. This inner conversation has led me to re-imagine the human story as a 3D collage made of porcelain clay, describing how we can move between the experiences of trauma, disintegration & loss, to strength, regeneration, and vitality. On this journey of transformation, we are not alone, but connected in an intricate web of relationships to the world around us.
Every year or two, since 2008, I have created a new generation of sculptures called Seacreatures, focusing on an abstract depiction of an interconnected web of relationships, the coral reef is re-imagined as a 3-D collage of porcelain. The origin of this series began by wandering the beaches of Southern Florida and Mexico. I was fascinated by the coral being a life form that thrives in symbiosis with so many other lifeforms, I see it as a metaphor for life on the planet itself, including human relationships with each other, and other species. Homo Sapiens belong to nature and ecosystems, and we too can live in balance and symbiosis with this wonderful, oxygen creating, nurturing life form.
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