Artist Statement:
My practice is rooted in the experience of motherhood, a journey that has transformed both my identity and my creative process. Since becoming a mother, I’ve explored how this new role encompasses acts of sacrifice, protection, nurturing, and unconditional giving. Through my work with clay, I express these complexities in sculptural baskets, which have become a central motif in my practice. The basket, a symbol of containment, offering, and abundance, serves as a reflection of the emotional and physical labor that defines motherhood. Baskets are vessels of care; they hold, carry, protect, and present. They are deeply utilitarian, but also symbolic.
My sculptures explore the balance between the nurturing, domestic aspects of maternal life and the profound strength that lies within this role. In the tender chaos of motherhood, there exists a quiet resilience: a delicate balance between bearing the weight of it all and seeking moments of personal transformation amidst the overwhelm. I aim to honor both the quiet and the loud aspects of motherhood… the softness and the strength, the containment and the release. The sculptures become quiet monuments to the careful work of mothering, to the repetition of domestic labor, and to the abundance that can exist even in monotony.
CV:
Rebeca Proctor
Ceramic Artist, Mother, Craftswoman, Educator
East Side Pot Shop
Nom Ceramics
BFA in Studio Art, University of Texas at Austin 2018
Turn on, Tune in, Drop out - November 2024 - Visual Arts Center at UT Austin - Austin, TX
Soft Opening - DORF Gallery - October 2024 - Austin, TX
Texas Clay Festival 2024 - October 2024 - Gruene, TX
Nom Ceramics Solo Show - August 2024 - Companion Gallery - Humboldt, TN
Texas Clay Festival 2023 - October 2023 - Gruene, TX
HOUSE PARTY - projectART Wimberley - September 2023 - Wimberley, TX
(Became a Mother - September 2023 and again August 2025 - Elgin, TX)
Material Mugs VII - Companion Gallery - September 2023 - Humboldt, TN
Yunomi Invitational - Clay Akar - June 2023 - Iowa City, Iowa
Americano Invitational - Clay Akar - December 2022 - Iowa City, Iowa
Nom Ceramics Solo Exhibition - Companion Gallery - November 2022 - Humboldt, Tennessee
Texas Clay Festival 2022 - October 2022 - Gruene, Texas
Host of wild clay retreat in Sayulita, Mexico - February, 2022
2022 Winter Residency - Penland School of Craft
Our Lives in Clay 2021 - Charlie Cummings Gallery - November 2021 - Gainesville, Florida
Texas Clay Festival 2021 - October 2021 - Gruene, Texas
Material Mugs VI - Companion Gallery - August 2021 - Humboldt, Tennessee
Yunomi Invitational 2021 - Clay Akar - June 2021 - Iowa City, Iowa
Nom Ceramics Solo Exhibition, BECOMING SWEET - Charlie Cummings Gallery - June, 2021
A Wished for and Welcome Guest - CO-LAB Projects - April, 2021 - Austin, Texas
Last Call VI - Companion Gallery - March 2021 - Humboldt, Tennessee
2021 Ceramics Monthly Emerging Artist (Nom Ceramics) - May 2021 issue of Ceramics Monthly
Small Favors 2021 - The Clay Studio Philadelphia - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Nom Ceramics Solo Show - Companion Gallery - December, 2020
Texas Clay Festival 2020 (online) - October 2020 - Gruene, Texas
Feature in Ceramics Monthly September issue, Harmony & Contrast - September, 2020
Material Mugs V - Companion Gallery - August, 2020 - Humboldt, Tennessee
Summer Clay Jam 2020 - July 20, 2020 - Charlie Cummings Gallery - Gainesville, Florida
Nom Ceramics Window Dressing - June 2020 - ICOSA Gallery - Austin, Texas
Spring Exhibition - Companion Gallery - Humboldt, Tennessee
TEXAS TOAST - Co-Lab Projects - December 2019 - Austin, Texas
Texas Clay Festival 2019 - October 2019 - Gruene, Texas
Greater Austin Clay Artists - October 2019 - presentation - Austin, Texas
Partial Shade Presents: A Pit Fire, Co-Lab Projects, October 2019
Dirt Dauber Festival 2019 - June 2019 - Eye of the Dog Art Center - San Marcos, Texas
Constructured Clay Scapes - San Angelo Museum of Fine Art’s Gallery Verde - April 2019 - San Angelo, Texas
Different Flowers - Martha’s Contemporary - March 2019 Austin, Texas
Internship at Anderson Ranch Arts Center - 2018 - Snowmass Village, Colorado
MASS+1 - Mass Gallery - April 2018 - Austin, Texas
Graduated BFA in Studio Art from University of Texas at Austin - 2018