Artist Information
Artist
Judi DyelleRole
CeramicistDate made
2018Time Period
21st CenturyNotes
CERAMICIST BIOGRAPHY
Judi Dyelle is a internationally-known Canadian ceramics artist. She graduated with honours in 1967 and became an Associate of the Ontario College of Art in Toronto. She was awarded the Lieutenant Governor’s Medal of Excellence. Upon graduation she received a Canada Council Grant which allowed her to spend a year and a half traveling in Japan and studying with Tatsuzō Shimaoka (1919- 2007), one of Japan’s most recognized ceramic artists. In Kyoto she first experienced porcelain and knew that she had found her clay. Dyelle continues to create a wide range of one-of-a-kind pieces in high-temperature, reduction-fired porcelain clay. Mainly wheel thrown, she also explores altered and hand-built forms.
On Dyelle’s return to Canada, she began teaching pottery in Toronto and continued in Vancouver, Montreal and Victoria. With her husband Robin Hopper (1939-2017), Dyelle co-founded Chosin Pottery, one of the oldest continuing potteries on the southern end of Vancouver Island. And in 1984 Dyelle and Hopper founded the annual exhibition “Fired Up! Contemporary Works in Clay”, and the Metchosin International Summer School of the Arts both of which continue to this day. Dyelle has exhibited and given numerous workshops in Canada and the US. Her work is held in many private and public collections throughout North America, China, Korea, Japan, Australia, Denmark, Iceland, Germany and England.
