Naomi Clement

Naomi Clement is a Canadian artist and educator who explores ideas of home and belonging through the powerful lens of functional ceramics. She received her MFA from Louisiana State University in 2017, and has participated in residencies, given lectures and workshops, and exhibited her work across North America.
In her work Naomi uses text elements from old family correspondence and ephemera to explore her history and connect past and present. Using this text, Naomi is able to collaborate with the past, to create objects for the present, and make the ephemeral endure.
The resulting pots ask to be noticed and examined; they convey a sense of a life lived, and of a life still to be lived; they are about making connections and wanting to make connections. A snapshot of the journey, each pot is a tether that connects maker and user—a memory bound in mud-made-stone for years to come.