Corwyn Lund is Toronto-based visual artist. He earned 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 in the United States, Germany, the Netherlands, China, and Canada. His ceramic work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Alberta University of the Arts, Headstone Gallery in New York state, and Zalucky Contemporary in Toronto, and is held in the permanent collections of the Boijmans Museum in Rotterdam, Archie Bray Foundation, Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, and Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery. Works in other media are held in several prominent Canadian corporate and private collections.
In his work, Corwyn Lund seeks the alchemical links between the ceramic and photographic processes by glazing large architectural tiles whose surfaces record the intense heat, light, and shadow within the sealed kiln. The resulting 'glaze pictures' evoke presence through absence, and posit the extreme forces of kiln firing as analogues for climate and nuclear events.
Corwyn Lund gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, and Toronto Arts Council.
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