About Jackie Frioud Jackie Frioud

Artist’s Statement:

Jackie FrioudI love the intimacy and dailiness of pottery. It is deeply satisfying to use handmade pots in my kitchen – a strainer for fresh strawberries, a jug for maple syrup, a platter for roasted vegetables, the perfect tea mug.

I am inspired by Japanese ceramics and contemporary pottery, by maps, stationery, tailoring and tools, by rocks, snow, gardens and the inter-tidal zone and by food beautifully presented. I hope the minimalist distillation of these fascinations in my pots intrigue and please the people who use them.

Clay is challenging, inspiring, limitless in possibilities, comforting in its long, global, earthy history.

I live and work in my home in Horseshoe Bay, West Vancouver,
B.C., Canada. I have a new natural gas-fired kiln in which I fire my salt-fired pottery. My porcelain is fired in an electric kiln.

Biography:

Born 1961

 
   

1965 - 1979

I grew up in the Okanagan Valley on top of a clay cliff. I spent my childhood summers covered in clay dust and the smell of sagebrush.

   

1993

BFA Hon. (Studio Art) UBC – majored in sculpture and printmaking

   

2000 - 2006

Advanced Ceramics, Capilano College

Awards:

2008

Award of Excellence, BC in a Box, BC Potter’s Guild Show

Award of Excellence, BC in a Box, BC Potter’s Guild Show
   

1988

Helen Pitt Scholarship
BC Cultural Fund Scholarship
Toronto Sculpture Garden Award

Selected Shows:

2009

Jackie Frioud and Mila Kostic
North Vancouver District Hall, North Vancouver BC
Harmony Arts Festival Group Show
Harmony Arts Festival Studio Tour, West Vancouver BC

   

2008

All Wrapped Up, Private home, West Vancouver
Harmony Arts Festival Studio Tour
Fingerplay, Port Moody Arts Centre and traveling through BC

   

2007

Great Stuff, Ferry Building Gallery, West Vancouver
All Wrapped Up, private home, West Vancouver
Art in the Garden, North Vancouver

   

2006

New Works 3, West Vancouver
Art in the Garden, North Vancouver

   

2005

BC in a Box
Members’ Show, BC Potters’ Guild Gallery, Vancouver
Art in the Garden, West Vancouver
Advanced Ceramics Group Show, Capilano College, North Vancouver

   

2003

Earth to Fire, Cityscape Gallery, North Vancouver


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