Meet the Artist

Jordan Danger artist

ARTIST STATEMENT

For decades now, despite an organically shifting focus on subject matter and media, I have had one constant mantra: art should be everywhere. Much of my work is meant to challenge the viewer’s concept of art versus craft, function versus decoration, ornament versus statement.

I like to create art that is accessible. Even when the message is grand, the piece should feel comfortable and approachable. I invite the viewer into a conversation and exploration, one they can take at their own pace.

GOALS

  1. To ban the blank white or concrete wall.

  2. To make art accessible, inviting, and understandable.

  3. To blur the line between commercial art, professional art, and craft.

  4. To guide others through their relationship with art.

Kanata Civic Art Gallery

Manotick Arts Association

Associations

Craft Ontario

Ottawa Guild of Potters

Ottawa Arts Council

NCNS

Jordan Danger: Biography

In the realm where imagination dances with reality, Jordan Danger emerges as a luminary figure, a creator of enchantments woven from the threads of her captivating journey. Born amidst the majestic landscapes of Smithers, BC, her destiny was guided by the hands of serendipity and shaped by the very essence of her origins.

Raised under the watchful gaze of a village matriarch, amidst the lofty peaks where wild raspberries adorned the landscape and domesticated peacocks wove their iridescent tapestry, Jordan imbibed the secrets of nature's symphony. Her senses were awakened by the whispers of wind and the cadence of the mountains, leaving an indelible mark on her artistic spirit.

The dichotomy of her lineage painted a vivid canvas for her soul. Her maritime heritage, a gift from her mother, instilled in her a deep reverence for the boundless sea—an ever-flowing muse that infuses her creations with an eternal ebb and flow. In contrast, her father, a revered and published photographer, kindled within her the magic of composition and design.

Earning her artisanal stripes at a tender age, Jordan's voyage into the realm of creativity was catalyzed at just seventeen, when she was offered employment as a key animator at a local studio. From that point, her narrative unfolded onto grander stages.

Her early twenties became the threshold to a symphony of exhibitions, where her work wove tales of reverence for the land and reverence for the soul. Governments and NGOs alike sought her artistry, commissioning her creations to illuminate causes greater than oneself. A tapestry of purpose unfurled, carving echoes of meaning into the very clay of existence.

Jordan has over two decades of exhibiting and selling her work professionally, with the last ten years a testament to her devotion to the tactile magic of clay and ceramics. A sculptor of dreams, she bends these earthly elements to her will, creating masterpieces that transcend mere function to inhabit realms of profound aesthetic and utility. Furniture becomes poetry, simple carafes turn into sonnets, and the mundane metamorphoses into the extraordinary, all under the deft touch of her skilled hands.

But it is in her quest to infuse life into the spaces we inhabit that Jordan Danger truly shines as a luminary of the artistic cosmos. Her art becomes a bridge between the ethereal and the mundane, a harmonious interplay that transforms living and working spaces into sanctuaries of wonder. Murals, those cascades of visual poetry, become transformative gateways, breathing soul into the very walls that shelter us.

With each stroke of her brush, each whisper of her hands upon clay, Jordan Danger spins threads of enchantment that weave through the tapestry of existence. A conjurer of realms, a whisperer of the extraordinary, she invites us all to embrace the mystique that lies within the mundane, to dance with the sublime, and to cherish the profound journey that is life.

EDUCATION

Studied under:

  • Colette Beardall

  • Doug Moir

  • Susan Gold

  • Anne Chambers

  • Liz Hoffman

EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLICATIONS

  • Ongoing representation at the Kanata Civic Art Gallery

  • 2023 Ottawa Guild of Potters, Capital Creates exhibit, Ottawa Art Gallery

  • 2023 National Capital Network of Sculptors Annual Exhibition, W Gallery

  • 2019 Ceramics Art + Perception issue #111: No Green Without Blue retrospective

  • 2018 Solo exhibition, Trinity Gallery, Shenkman Arts Centre, Ottawa, ON

  • 2017 Solo exhibition, Nepean Visual Arts Centre Foyer Gallery, Ottawa, ON

  • 2016 Group show, Parkdale United Church, Ottawa, ON

  • 2015 Group exhibition, Nepean Visual Arts Centre Gallery, Ottawa, ON

  • 2012 Group exhibition, Art in the Park, Ottawa, ON

  • 2011 Group exhibition, West Carleton Arts Society, Carleton Place, ON

COLLECTIONS

  • Private collections, various, Ottawa ON

  • Youth Services Bureau, Ottawa ON

  • Ottawa Police Services, Ottawa ON

ACCOLADES

  • Best sculpture award, Ottawa Guild of Potters, 2020

  • Forty Under 40 Award, OBJ, 2017

  • Teaching Excellence Award, Algonquin College, 2015

  • Invited author, Ottawa Writer’s Festival, 2012

  • Invited author, Blog Out Loud Ottawa, 2011

  • Activism Award, LGBTTQ+ Youth, YSB, 2007

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