2026 – Taking part in Potfest in the City- Glasgow

Artist Biography
As a young Indigenous artist in Canada with a Bachelor’s degree in Craft and Design, Erin Roundsky is focused on creating functional ceramics as a potter. She specialized in Ceramics at Sheridan College, earning her degree in 2020. From 2022–2025, Erin was honing her craft at The Ye11ow Studio in Picton, Ontario, working as a production potter. During this time, she explored her own work and concepts and recently completed an artist residency at the Banff Center for Arts and Creativity (winter 2025). She is currently living on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland, working as a potter and artist, running her own studio. For Erin, the process of working with clay is rooted in play, exploration, and connection to earth. Her work reflects an ongoing dialogue between tradition and contemporary expression, weaving together nature, language, and identity through the tactile and storytelling potential of clay.

Artist Statement
My work starts with clay as a direct connection to the land. I’m drawn to its texture, its honesty, and the way it records every mark made on it. Working with clay allows me to explore my relationship to place and identity through a material that feels immediate and familiar.
I decorate my pottery with the languages and motifs that shape who I am: English and Anisininiimowin, woven together with imagery from the natural world. These elements are deeply personal; reflecting the ways identity, culture, and land intersect in my life. Words become patterns; patterns become stories; stories become a part of each vessels.
Creating functional pottery is essential to my practice. A cup, a bowl, a jar—these objects carry my touch into the daily routines of others. I’m moved by the idea that something I make becomes part of someone else’s life, accompanying them through quiet mornings, shared meals, and small moments of comfort. In this way, each piece continues its journey far beyond my studio, forming new connections as it becomes part of another person’s world.
Through clay, language, and everyday use, my work seeks to honour the relationships that shape us: our ties to the land, to culture, and to each other.

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