As reinventions of everyday items, my work highlights the symbolic potential of the mundane. My research centers on inanimate, often low-cost objects that hold power for us as humans. Childhood possessions, familiar structures, and ephemeral things all bear emotional or cultural weight. By translating these objects into new substances, I question and disrupt the value systems they carry. Like a fun-house mirror, my sculptures reflect and distort ideas around gender roles, craft, and societal norms.
Jocelyn Reid is a ceramic and mixed media artist from Treaty 7 Territory in Canada. She holds a BFA from the Alberta University of the Arts and an MFA from the University of Arkansas. She has exhibited work in North America, Taiwan, and Europe, and was the 2021 recipient of the Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramics. Reid has participated in residencies at the Banff Centre, the Vermont Studio Center, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center. She makes pizza every Friday.