Collection: Carlee Thompson
Carlee Thompson is a queer emerging artist practicing on the unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples, the Musqueam, Squamish, and Sel̓ílwitulh Nations
With a focus on ceramics, installation, and sculpture, Thompson’s work explores a constant desire to find embodiment, autonomy, and dissolution in everyday life by emphasizing non-objective references to the ever-present consistency of tomorrow. Through the expression of human behavior and identity Thompson's work operates within the hauntingly mundane by questioning personal perceptions of being and individualistic culture. Often asking themselves “How can I celebrate the banal while also pushing against heteronormative ideals to highlight subversive narratives?” References to the modern still life as well as the city of Vancouver’s architecture can be found in the work.
Thompson received their Bachelors of Fine Arts Degree in Visual Arts from Emily Carr University of Art + Design (2022). They have been the recipient of the Jessie Allan Forsyth Memorial Scholarship (2019), the Clay Foundation Visual Arts Award (2018) as well as the Renée Van Helm + Pietro Widmer Graduation Award for Visual Arts (2022).
