Cam Fisher
Contact:
Email: twofishpottery@yahoo.ca

Website:www.camfisher.com

“My current body of work features wheel-thrown porcelain and stoneware with images of flora, fauna and handwritten text. This imagery melds into the white porcelain skin and aims to reinforce the language of handmade pottery with natural expressions of movement and growth.”

Cam Fisher received his BFA from the Alberta College of Art and Design. Upon graduation, he was nominated for the Board of Governor’s Award of Excellence. He then worked as Co-production Assistant at the Banff New Media Institute while conducting a yearlong self-directed residency at the Banff Centre, with focus on functional pottery and atmospheric firing in wood and salt kilns. Cam has taught and lectured at many art centers, including the Banff Centre, North Mount Pleasant Art Centre, Brantford Potter’s Guild, New Dundee Pottery studio, Ingersoll Creative Arts Centre, and Tillsonburg Station Arts Centre. Since returning to Ontario, Cam has worked as Shane Norrie’s studio assistant in Ingersoll. He collaborated on the design and construction of a wood-fired kiln in Ingersoll, and has just completed plans for an anagama style kiln to be constructed in 2008. Cam works as a studio potter in Woodstock, Ontario.