Shannon Hobbs
Shannon Hobbs (she/her) is a ceramicist, sculptor, and product designer born/based in Seattle, WA. She earned her BFA in Three-Dimensional Forum from the University of Washington in 2018, focusing in ceramics and sculpture. Her functional ceramics have been featured in the Seattle Met for PooPu Market and at local boutiques (Prism, Slowdance). She has worked as a studio assistant for ceramicist Amanda Salov and is currently working as a Product Designer at Chunks.
Drawn to sensitive materials such as clay, wax, wire, and cyanotypes, Shannon is fixated on everyday objects and their ability to hold a memory or an emotional state. By introducing found objects, some fractured, some whole, she explores emotions of longing, love, and loneliness. Memorialising moments that have passed.
Mandi and I met at University of Washington in 2017 when I was finishing up my BFA. She was a sensitive and supportive voice during my thesis critique, even then I felt a closeness with her. In 2022 I became her studio assistant, we really connected with our specific sense of color, and how the colors (or lack thereof), can evoke felt emotions and states of being. During the summer of 2023, I was lucky enough to attend an art residency in the South of France with Mandi. This was a true gift, to be surrounded by other artist’s in her life and to be able to open ourselves up to a new experience, as well as each other.
xoxo
~Shannon