Brooke Gillon

Brooke Gillon is a queer ceramicist, mother, and all around messy human practicing animism & crafting pottery to honor the sacred act of nourishment at the altar of the body. She lives in the ancestral lands of the Cherokee, Choctaw, Shawnee, and Yuchi tribes, making a home amongst lively unkempt gardens with her two children and their beloved dog and cat in their hometown of Nashville, Tennessee.

Weaving plant wisdom & folk magic into her clay practice, Brooke’s wheelthrown stoneware pots are decorated with channeled imagery of plants & apotropaic symbols that serve as talismans of support for our times. Her work continues a deep craft lineage, guided and inspired by their ancestors--particularly those born of fiery, volcanic Sicily, itself a ceramic island, kiln, crucible, and home to the plants often depicted in the fluid line drawings that decorate the exteriors of her stoneware pots.

Brooke seeks to extend her personal ceramic work into co-creative rituals that invite folks into community art practice around the exploration of clay and the body as conductors of deep-time wisdom. This is an invitation to play & get your hands dirty while exploring body memory & interconnection through the craft tradition of working with clay.