Alice Gibson Great Canadian Pottery Throw Down

Alice Gibson Biography – Alice Gibson Wiki

Alice Gibson is a Canadian potter and contestant on The Great Canadian Pottery Throw Down 2024. She lives in Penticton, B.C. and has been potting since the spring of 2020.

Alice recently graduated from a ceramics program at Selkirk College’s Kootenay Studio Arts and hopes to be a full-time ceramist one day, turning her love of making beautiful objects into a career.

Alice started making pottery in the spring of 2020. She told CBC: “I started making ceramics in my parents’ greenhouse in the spring of 2020. During the pandemic, like many people, I had a lot of time on my hands and I was searching for a creative outlet so I asked my dad (a high school art teacher) to bring home a pottery wheel from his school.

“I was spending 8 hours a day on the wheel teaching myself how to centre and throw clay. Being at the wheel felt intuitive and all I wanted to do was make pottery. I eventually dropped out of university where I was studying psychology, joined my local pottery guild and applied to pottery school in Nelson BC. I spent the last year studying at Kootenay Studio Arts in Nelson learning about the nuances that go into creating quality ceramics.”

Her work is influenced by mid-century modern design, finding beauty in simplicity and echoing that mentality in the pieces she creates. Describing her pottery style in three words, she said: “Peaceful, minimalist and playful”.

Alice Gibson Age

Potter Alice Gibson was aged 21 at the time of filming of The Great Canadian Pottery Throw Down in 2023.

Alice Gibson Great Canadian Pottery Throw Down

Alice Gibson, 21, is a contestant on the inaugural season of The Great Canadian Pottery Throw Down on CBC and CBC Gem. Award-winning artist and ceramics instructor Brendan Tang and renowned ceramicist and educator Natalie Waddell serve as judges.

She announced the news on Instagram, writing: “So stoked to be throwin’ down on Season 1 of The Great Canadian Pottery Throw Down alongside the most unreal group of potters! Truly a wild experience shared with these amazing people! The passion, care and creativity that went in to creating this show is true magic and I’m beyond grateful to be a part of it!”

The 10 amateur potters from across the country who will compete in the debut season of The Great Canadian Pottery Throw Down are Kiefer Floreal, Alice Gibson, Thomas Haskell, Susan Johnston, Renu Mathew, Andrew McCullough, Jen Sonnenberg, Jackie Talmey-Lennon, Elsa Valinas and Michael Wood.

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Alice Gibson’s Instagram handle is @aliceingridceramics.