Courtney Murphy

Courtney Murphy's pottery is influenced by textiles, patterns, folk art, mid-century modern forms and shapes, as well as children’s drawings and historical pots. She is simultaneously attracted to worn surfaces showing the passage of time, as well as forms that are clean, simple, and elegantly utilitarian. She pays careful attention to line, both in her drawings and in the profiles or outlines of the forms themselves.

Murphy studied ceramics at Oregon College of Art & Craft. She has been a resident at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts in Helena, as well as Red Lodge Clay Center and the Clay Studio of Missoula. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, and has been featured in many books and magazines including American Craft and Pottery Making Illustrated. In 2011 Murphy was honored as an emerging artist by Ceramics Monthly. She lives in Missoula.