JOANNE GUTHRIE
Sculptor & Mixed Media Artist
MATERIALS WITH A STORY
I create sculpture and mixed-media works using salvaged steel, foraged pigments, handmade paper, charcoal, and other materials gathered, reclaimed, and transformed through my practice.
My work brings together the industrial language of fabrication with the textures, colours, and stories of the natural world.
COLLECTIONS
Every collection begins with a material, a question, or an observation.
From steel and salvaged materials to handmade paper, natural pigments, and charcoal, each collection develops through a process of experimentation, discovery, and transformation.
These bodies of work explore the relationship between industry and nature, and the possibilities that emerge when overlooked materials are given new meaning.
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FROM FABRICATOR TO ARTIST
I fell in love with metal before I ever knew where it would take me.
Long before I thought of myself as an artist, I was a fabricator. I learned to understand materials through my hands, how they move, bend, resist, join, and transform.
Those lessons never left me.
Today, fabrication is still at the heart of how I work, but my materials and the questions I ask of them have expanded. I approach each material with curiosity, paying attention to its character, its history, and the possibilities hidden within it.
For me, making is a process of discovery. The finished piece is important, but so is everything that happens along the way.
IN THE STUDIO
New work begins with a question, a material, and a willingness to see where the process leads.
Right now, I’m developing Occupying Space, a new body of sculpture made from single use plastics collected over several years.
What began as something ordinary and disposable has become a material to explore through sculpture.
The work considers consumption, waste, presence, and the space these materials continue to occupy long after we are finished with them.
The work is still evolving.
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PUBLIC ART
Sculpture for Shared Spaces
I’m interested in what happens when sculpture leaves the studio and becomes part of a larger environment.
My public art practice brings together sculpture, fabrication and reclaimed materials to create work that responds to place, invites curiosity and gives people a reason to pause and look again.
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Site Specific & Commissioned Work
Some ideas begin with a material. Others begin with a space, a story or a specific need.
I work with private collectors, businesses and organizations to create original sculpture, site specific installations and custom metalwork.
Every commission begins with a conversation and develops through concept, material and making.