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Laurie Rolland

Original hand-built ceramic pottery. Click any image to enlarge. Biography
 

 



"Letter to Athena" (LR-105)
hand-built ceramic - 7" x 10"
$125


"Letter to Athena" (LR-102)
hand-built ceramic - 7" x 10"
$125


"Letter to Athena" (LR-103)
hand-built ceramic - 7" x 10"
$125

 


SOLD
"Letter to Athena" (LR-104)
hand-built ceramic - 7" x 10"
$125



"Cargo Wall Plate" (LR-101)
hand-built ceramic
12" diameter x 1 1/2" depth
$350



"Double-leaf vases"
 (LR-098
SOLD [left] and
 LR-097
SOLD [right])
hand-built ceramic - each 14" (H)
$180 each

 




"Letter to Athena" (LR-091)
hand-built ceramic - 6" (W) x 9 1/2" (H)
$125
 

 





"Leaf vase" (LR-096)
hand-built ceramic - 14" (H)
$120

SOLD
Teapot Conversation (LR-100)
Hand-built ceramic - 17" (H)
$525

 



Teapot Conversation (LR-099)
Hand-built ceramic - 17" (H)
$525

 





Harbinger Series No. 1 (LR-090)
Hand-built ceramic - 31" (L)
$2000
 


Ab Intra Series (LR-087)
Hand-built ceramic - 25" (L)
$800

 



SOLD
Charybdis Series No. 3 (LR-088)
Hand-built ceramic - 17" (H)
$1500


 




Bowl (LR-083)
Hand-built ceramic - 15" (W)
$275

 





Cargo Series with Cargo (LR-089)
Hand-built ceramic - 24 1/2" (L)
$600

 



SOLD
Slipper Boat (LR-084)
Hand-built ceramic - 14 1/2" (L)
$175


 

 




"Letter to Athena" (LR-086)
hand-built ceramic - 9" (H) x 6" (W)
$125

 




Double-leaf vases
Hand-built ceramic
Left
(LR-069) - 13 1/2" - $160 - SOLD
Middle (LR-070) - 14 1/2" - $180 -
SOLD
Right (LR-071) - 15" - $180 -
SOLD




Leaf vases (LR-067, LR-068)
Hand-built ceramic
16" (left) and 14 3/4" (right)
$130 each

 




Vases (LR-080, LR-079)
Hand-built ceramic
19 1/4" (left), 18" (right)
$260 (left), $250 (right)

 




SOLD
Bowl (LR-077)
Hand-built ceramic - 15" diameter
$350
 

 




"Cage Wall Piece" (LR-076)
Hand-built ceramic - 28" (L)
$525

 





"Letter Box" (LR-074)
Hand-built ceramic
6 1/2" x 9 1/4"
$150

 



Vase (LR-078)
Hand-built ceramic
16 1/4" (H)
$240

 





Plate
Hand-built ceramic - 16" (W)
$180

 

 




Vase
Hand-built ceramic - 18" (H)
$240
 



"Letter to Athena" (LR-050)
hand-built ceramic - 9" (H) x 6" (W)
$125


SOLD
Jug set
Hand-built ceramic
13 1/2" (H) x 9" (W)
$475

 





"Ab Intra Series"
Hand-built ceramic - 13" (L) x 4 1/2" (H)
$475



"Bone Boat"
Hand-built ceramic - 20 1/2" (L) x 5 1/4" (W) x 6 3/4" (H)
$525

 



SOLD
"Ab Intra Series"
Hand-built ceramic - 18 1/4" (L) x 7" (W) x 4" (H)
$625

 





"Ictic Vessel"
Hand-built ceramic - 21" (L) x 6" (H)
$600

 

 


 



LAURIE ROLLAND, R.C.A., lives along the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia. She graduated with Honours from Sheridan College School of Crafts and Design, in Ontario, in 1978.

Laurie has received numerous awards and grants from 1979 to 2005, including a 1999 Canada Council Crafts Creation/Production Project "B" Grant to research materials and techniques for her series of boat forms; a 1999 Canada Council Travel Grant for the purpose of receiving a Purchase Award at the Ceramics Monthly International Competition at NCECA in Columbus, Ohio; a Canada Council Travel Grant in 2001 to speak at the "Earthworks" Symposium at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto, Ontario; and a Canada Council Travel Grant to participate in the panel discussion for "West Coast Potters", Burlington, Ontario, 2002. She received a Canada Council Travel Grant to attend “The Third World Ceramic Biennale” 2005 Icheon, Korea and in 2008 for the “Sidney Myer International Ceramic Competition” in Shepparton, Australia..

Laurie has taught and lectured in Ontario, Alberta, and British Columbia. She has exhibited constantly in Canada and in the USA, in solo, invitational, and juried shows. She was also included in "Voyage", the Trois Rivieres Juried Travelling Show 2000, "Earthworks", the Gardiner Museum's exhibition of Canadian contemporary ceramics shown at Expo 2000 in Hanover, Germany, and the “Sixth Taiwan Golden Ceramics Awards” (2000-2001) in Taipei, Taiwan. She was invited to exhibit in the "21st Century Ceramics" Exhibition in Columbus, Ohio, 2003 and was part of “The Third World Ceramic Biennale” 2005 Korea, the “Cheongju Craft Biennale” 2007 and 2009 Korea and “The 2008 Sidney Myer Fund International Competition” in Australia, where Laurie was also guest speaker. She has work on permanent display in the Canadian High Commissioner’s Residence in London England, and The Canadian Embassy in Rome Italy.

Laurie Rolland has functioned as a juror for various potters' guilds in Ontario and BC, and also for the Ontario Arts Council for their "Grants to Individual Craftsmen" and "Artists In The Schools"grants and as co-juror for the Winnifred Shantz Award in 2006. She was a presenter for the "Canadian Clay" Symposium 2000 in Burnaby, BC. and the Earthworks Symposium in Toronto, Ont. in 2001.

Her work is in private, corporate, and public collections, and has been seen in over 50 different publications since 1978, with reviews and articles about her work in many of these, including the November 2000 issue of Ceramics Monthly and the May/June 2003 issue of Clay Times. It can be seen in seventeen books on Ceramics, one of which is printed entirely in Chinese.

Laurie was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 2004.

 

Video vignette: Laurie Rolland
 discusses the importance of the
 boat as metaphor in her work.


 


ARCHIVE
 



SOLD
"Tea Set Conversation" (LR--081)
Hand-built ceramic - 17 1/2" (H)
$525

 

 



SOLD
Bowl (LR-085)
Hand-built ceramic - 13" (W)
$140
 

 



SOLD
Leaf vases
Hand-built ceramic
15 3/4" (left) and 14 1/4" (right)
$130 each

 


SOLD
"Letter to Athena" (LR-055)
hand-built ceramic
9" (H) x 6" (W)
$125
 

 



SOLD
Jug set by Laurie Rolland
Hand-built ceramic - 15" (H)
$475

 

 

SOLD
"Letter Box Set"
Hand-built ceramic (four pieces)
Overall size 13" (W) x 15 1/2" (H)
$600



SOLD
"Letter Box" (LR-072)
Hand-built ceramic
6 1/2" x 9 1/4"
$150

 



SOLD
"Letter Box" (LR-073)
Hand-built ceramic
6 1/2" x 9 1/4"
$150

 


SOLD
"Letter Box" (LR-075)
Hand-built ceramic
6 1/2" x 9 1/4"
$150

 



SOLD
Bowl
Hand-built ceramic - 14 1/2" (W)
$120
 



 



SOLD
"Letter to Athena" (LR-053)
hand-built ceramic - 9" (H) x 6" (W)
$125


SOLD
"Letter to Athena" (LR-047)
hand-built ceramic - 9 3/4" (H) x 6" (W)
$125


SOLD
"Letter to Athena" (LR-054)
hand-built ceramic - 9" (H) x 6" (W)
$125

 

 



SOLD
"Teapot Conversation"
Hand-built ceramic - 17 1/2" (H) x 11" (W)
$525
 

 



SOLD
"Salvage Wall Boat"
Hand-built ceramic
22 1/2" (L)
$475

 



SOLD
"Letter to Athena" (LR-049)
hand-built ceramic - 9 3/4" (H) x 6" (W)
$125

 



SOLD (both)
Vases
Hand-built ceramic - 18" (H)
$240 each


SOLD
P
late
Hand-built ceramic - 16" (W)
$195
 


SOLD
"Letter to Athena" (LR-056)
hand-built ceramic - 9" (H) x 6" (W)
$125
 

 



SOLD
"Teapot Conversation"
Hand-built ceramic - 15 1/2" (H)
$525


SOLD
"Cage Wall Piece"
Hand-built ceramic - 25" (L)
$525

 


SOLD
"Wall Salvage Boat"
Hand-built ceramic
23" (L) x 6 1/2" (W)
$475


SOLD
"Letter to Athena"
Hand-built ceramic
9 1/2" (L) x 6 1/2" (W)
$125

 



SOLD
"Vessel"
Hand-built ceramic - 13" (L) x 4" (H)
$475

 

 



SOLD
"Small Salvage Boat"
Hand-built ceramic - 14 1/2" (L)
$250


 

 

 



SOLD
"Letter to Athena"
Hand-built ceramic
10 1/2" (L) x 5 1/2" (W)
$125


SOLD
"Vessel"
Hand-built ceramic - 10 1/2" (diameter)
$475

 

 



SOLD
"Letter to Athena"
Hand-built ceramic wall hanging
6" (W) x 9 1/2" (H)
$125

 



SOLD
"Letter to Athena"
Hand-built ceramic wall hanging
6" (W) x 9 1/2" (H)
$125


SOLD
"Letter to Athena"
Hand-built ceramic wall hanging
6" (W) x 9 1/2" (H)
$125

 


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