Studio Visit: Aiden Canady

During my stay in Oxford, I had the pleasure of visiting friend and fellow potter, Aiden Canaday. Aidan and I met many years ago through the music scene, he was and still is a promoter putting on excellent shows under the moniker Divine Schism and I was in the one of the bands he put on a gig for.

Shortly after we were introduced, Aiden turned to me and said “you pot, don’t you?” which turned into a lengthy conversation about clay and making and ever since then we have been pals and mutual appreciators or each others’ creations.

I love Aiden’s work. He makes hand built earthernware pieces; decorated with colourful slip, carved figures, fragmented faces and pieces of poems. They embody a fluidity and freedom I find hard to achieve in my own work. What I also like about Aiden’s pots is that they feel like they come from the same exact world as everything else he does. His home (and for the purpose of this blog post, studio) is a personal gallery for pots, posters and paintings.

We ate a delicious meal and had a great catch up so the photos I took do not really do his work justice, as it was evening and dark, so please forgive me and give his work a proper peruse via his instagram.