Studio

With an established painting and ceramic practice, Heather spends time between both a home studio in Yarrow and an industrial studio in Vancouver. With the addition of a new son in the summer of 2022, working from her home studio has become invaluable to Heather’s practice. Located a little over 1 hr outside of Vancouver, Yarrow is the town Heather grew up in.

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In 2022 Heather was able to be part of an artist residency program called PADA in Lisbon, Portugal. In the course of her month-long residency she created a series of paintings and ceramic tiles that were inspired by the post-industrial landscape of the residency site.

Images of the artist via Emma Back, Image of work via Lena Lewis-King, May 2022

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The Vancouver Studio

Located in one of Vancouver’s Artist studio hubs, the Mergatroid Building, Heather has had a studio in this building since 2007, when she first launched Dahlhaus Studio. As part of the Ceramic Collective, her studio shares a kiln room with 7 other ceramic artists. The Dahlhaus Studio has it’s own space, consisting of a pugmill, wheel, custom slipcasting moulds, glaze materials and finished work. Primarily a ceramic studio, Heather also stores finished paintings and meets with clients in this studio.

Images via Joey Armstrong

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Early on in her practice, Heather recognized the need for mentorship opportunities for younger ceramic students in Vancouver. She began hiring a part-time assistant who works with her in the studio one day a week to help with packing and shipping, wedging clay, sieving glazes and loading kilns. The conversations around the work, and her practice as an artist has been invaluable to a long list of ceramic artists who spent anywhere from 3 months to 2 years assisting. Since 2018, Heather has also been an adjunct professor at Emily Carr University as a ceramic instructor. She is committed to teaching workshops and encouraging students as they pursue their own practices as artists.

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