Juni Margrie

BIOGRAPHY

Juni Margrie is an Australian potter living on the beautiful Front Range of Colorado with her family. She enjoys working with fine porcelain clay, predominantly for its translucency and strength. It’s also the perfect backdrop for the colorful botanical illustrations that Juni hand carves, inlays and paints.

ARTIST STATEMENT

My journey to ceramics was not a conventional one. My background is actually in aerospace engineering. I earned my Bachelor of Aerospace Engineering and later lectured at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia where I’m originally from.It wasn’t until we moved on to Savannah, Georgia in 2015 that I decided to take the plunge and enroll in a 6-week class and truly fell in love with clay. Here was something that enabled me to work tactilely (which was a relief from the previous ‘thinking’, or rather, ‘overthinking’ I was doing) to create something beautiful yet functional that we incorporate in our daily routines. I learned a lot about the basic fundamentals of throwing, hand building and glazing from Lisa Bradley at Savannah’s Clay Spot and would spend as many hours in her studio as possible.Most of my pieces are wheel-thrown but I also enjoy hand building slab pieces. Probably because of my engineering background, my preference tends to be in making utilitarian pieces with good design principles. I like the idea of my pieces being used, handled, on a daily basis.

Website: www.junimargrie.com
Instagram : @junimargrie