Available at the Alberta Craft Gallery - Edmonton & Calgary

Juliana Rempel is a graduate of Emily Carr University in Vancouver where she received her Bachelor in Visual Arts degree. Following this, she attended Cardiff School of Art and Design in Wales, UK where she completed her Master of Arts degree in Ceramics. Juliana has had the opportunity to attend art residencies such as the International Ceramic Studio in Hungary, Fourwinds Arts Residency in France as well as here in Canada at Medalta International Ceramic Residency in Medicine Hat, Alberta. She has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally, most recently her work has been shown at the Augsburg University Art Gallery (Minneapolis, Minnesota), the Alberta Craft Gallery (Calgary, Alberta), Blue Rock Gallery (Black Diamond, AB), Art Souterrain (Montreal, QC), The Gardiner Museum (Toronto, ON), and as part of ‘Oh Ceramics’ exhibition at the Esplanade Museum and Gallery (Medicine Hat, AB). 

Juliana resides and maintains a studio practice in Bragg Creek Alberta and is currently teaching as sessional faculty at AUarts. 

Through installations, groupings and individual pieces Juliana Rempel’s work focuses on the study of process and progression, exposing the accumulation of form and surface over time. Her work is greatly influenced by the process of making within the discipline of ceramics.  

Exploring the relationship between action and growth, these silent processes look to find a voice within their frame. Each line, cut, color, mark, gesture, stroke, pinch, pull, leads to the next; each decision makes progress. Within the pieces shown there is a story that is told, each action is evident and important, honoured and displayed. The first allows for the second and so on until the last piece is made. The intriguing part about exposing the process in this way is that the last piece is not necessarily the final or finished piece, instead, it is merely the last piece shown within this evolution.  

Growing up in Southern Alberta the influence of the Prairie Landscape is strong within Juliana’s work. The bold lines and colors of the prairies compositions allow objects to emerge from the shadows, posed and poised. There is a beauty found in the shapes and colors that compose the settings of our day. Within the soft and muted colours of the mundane, there is a silence.  Through the silence, vivid colours and shapes emerge and a story unfolds.

ACC Exhibitions: Spotlight Feature (2021).