ø 37cm, 34cm tall
Ceramic, handmade in Vancouver, B.C
Born in Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Nathalee Paolinelli is deeply influenced by her diverse heritage, with roots in both Italian and Indigenous cultures. Over the past few years, she has turned to ceramics as a natural extension of her painting and sculptural practice. She does not favour the formal or the functional; instead, she embraces an amateur approach to the medium of clay. This consciously naïve perspective makes each object unique while sparking subtle conversations with artists as varied as Lucio Fontana, Asger Jorn, and Carol Bove.
For Nathalee, the repetitive acts of rolling, shaping, patterning, and painting slabs create a foundation for these dialogues, where accidents, gravity, drips, and slips are allowed to manifest boldly once they enter the kiln. It is this delicate negotiation between her intentions as an artist and the demands of the material that imbues each piece with its own precarious and poetic tension.
