The Second Year Fellowship Reception
Corwyn Lund
“My work explores the relationship between ceramics and early photography, by glazing large architectural tiles whose surfaces record the event of their own firing within the sealed kiln. The resulting ‘glaze pictures’ and installations posit the extreme forces of kiln firing as analogues for climate and nuclear events. This work stems from an existential anxiety about the fate of the Earth and humanity which I have not felt since the 1980’s when the threat of nuclear conflict loomed large. Clay and glaze are apt materials to consider both nuclear and environmental forces, given the molecular chemistry and Promethean force of fire integral to the ceramic process.” – Corwyn Lund
Corwyn Lund is Toronto-based visual artist. He received his MFA in Ceramic Art from Alfred University in 2022, after studying sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) with the support of a Fulbright Scholarship. Lund has participated in ceramic residencies around the world, including in Germany, the Netherlands, Canada, the United States, and China. In April 2024 his ceramic work was featured on the cover of Ceramics Monthly magazine, which contained an article on his practice. In 2025, he received the runner-up prize for the Winifred Shantz Award for Canadian ceramics. Corwyn’s ceramic work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Alberta University of the Arts in Calgary, Headstone Gallery in New York state, and Zalucky Contemporary in Toronto, and is held in the permanent collections of the Boijmans Museum in Rotterdam, Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, and Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery. Works in other media are held in several prominent Canadian corporate and private collections.
