TERESA DOREY
BIO
Teresa Dorey is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the entanglements between body, environment, and materiality. Rooted in sustainability, her practice engages afect theory and socio-ecology through ceramics, sculpture, video and installation.Dorey has presented at the Clay Museum’s Sustainability Symposium and held various residencies, including the Banf Centre and Guldagergaard International Research Centre. Canada Council for the Arts, Forces AVENIR, SODEC, Concordia University and the Conseil des Arts de Montréal have supported her work. She has exhibited in Denmark, France, Italy, and Canada and is pursuing an MFA with support from SSHRC and a Fine Arts Scholarship.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My research-creation practice explores the interstices of embodiment and environment through materiality. Working primarily in sculpture and ceramics, and video, I investigate how environments—natural and built— shape processes of transformation, grief, and renewal. I investigate how hands-on making deepens our understanding of the world and its ecologies.My work engages ecological materialities and sensuality to enhance awareness of systems of time, place, and interdependence. Often working with reclaimed or site-specifc materials, I investigate co-shaping: how our surroundings shape us, and how we reciprocally shape them. The openness in my work is both aesthetic and ethical: it acknowledges the unknown, cultivates empathy and resilience, and foregrounds reciprocity and repair as creative and ecological necessities.