Since completing a diploma in ceramics at the Kootenay School of the Arts in 2024, Georgia Wilkins has been devoted to clay and fire.
Georgia handcrafts functional wheel-thrown pottery reflective of the rocky shores and cedar trees among which she has collected inspiration during her years of travel throughout Turtle Island. Her love for a slow, intentional morning coffee and her passion for cooking and feeding folks inform her craftsmanship.
Georgia’s interest in atmospheric firing was inspired by her awesome instructors at KSA. Throughout 2025/ 2026, she travelled to fire five different wood kilns. She loves the unique surfaces that come as a result of the collaboration between flame, wood, weather, time and community. Connecting with the physical effort of firing a kiln over many days resonates deeply in her spirit and connects Georgia to the enduring history of ceramics and people who make beautiful, useful items with their hands.
In Spring 2026, Georgia completed a 2-month artist in residence program at the Shaw Centre for Contemporary Ceramics at Medalta in Medicine Hat, AB during which she began an exploration of how to include materials she collects, such as sand, clay, and ash, into her making practice.
Her debut solo show, Earth Tones, at CoLab Gallery in Thunder Bay beginning June 19, 2026, will exhibit the work she created at Medalta.
Georgia (she/her) is of mixed white settler and Cree descent. She was born and raised in Thunder Bay, on the ancestral, traditional territories of the Anishnaabe people. Georgia loves to be outside, drink coffee, practice and teach yoga, cook, swim, surf, snowboard, and read fiction and poetry.
She currently resides with her partner, Andy, and puppy, Solstice, in Thunder Bay.
