Pottery
Artist Bio:
Stuart Webb grew up in coastal Virginia and landed in North Conway in 2023 after spending several years working in outdoor education out West and in the Southeast. She holds a BA in Studio Art from Colorado College, where she first began working with clay on the wheel. She primarily focuses on functional objects, and is driven to bring art and beauty into everyday routines.
Artist Statement:
My studio practice is rooted in exploration of material and form. My work is intentionally loose as a way of inviting people into it physically and emotionally. They strive to be both simple and playful, evoking of the movement of water around rocks or the transition from a tree branch to twig: of the same mind but different in every iteration.
I try to create opportunity for experiences that bring you back to your body, encourage slowness, presence, and engagement with even the seemingly meaningless but in actuality most meaningful routines of everyday life. These routines, movements, motions are what make up so much of our days, yet so easily get lost in busyness and distraction of the world we live in.
My work reflects and is born of my ever-evolving thought process of resistance to the mass-produced and disposable, a dedication to inviting art into everyday objects and moments, and an ode to reclaiming the in-between in a society that emphasizes constant motion and productivity as a marker of value, which leaves little room for observation and quietude.
I emphasize gentle disruptions that bring attention back to the present moment, encourage slowness and pleasure in quotidian routines, and try to think of my work as a collaboration between the body and the object, why you’re holding something the way you are, how it fits into your hand, how the form encourages the user to interact with the object.
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