B’Arquive: A personal archive of material exploration Marney McDiarmidKingston, Ontario Vote Vote for B’Arquive: A personal archive of material explorationMarney McDiarmid You can change your vote at any time before 5pm PST on October 17, 2025 Enter a valid email address to confirm your vote Email address Confirm vote Size 12" x 24" Medium Ceramic porcelain fired to Cone 6 with underglazes B’Arquive is a catalogue of objects that occupy the tension between permanence and impermanence, the natural and the human-made. Made of reclaimed porcelain and ceramic pigment, the collection represents remnants of what was and future imaginaries of what could be. In my practice, I struggle with the contradiction of finding solace and refuge in the “natural” and the inherent grief of physically transforming earth from impermanence to permanence, a type of moral injury. My unstable resolution of this inner conflict is to fashion vestiges of my material process into a queer ecology that values intimacy, strangeness and connection. Buy artwork B’Arquive: A personal archive of material exploration Marney McDiarmidKingston, Ontario Vote Vote for B’Arquive: A personal archive of material explorationMarney McDiarmid Enter a valid email address to confirm your vote Email address Confirm vote Buy artwork About the artist About the artist Marney McDiarmidKingston, Ontario Marney McDiarmid is a queer ceramicist and visual artist. She uses beauty as a tool for engagement, creating lush, sensuous pieces that call up notions of replenishment and frequently explore the climate crisis. Her illustrations add decorative elements and narrative content to her functional ceramic pieces and are central to her public art. Marney envisions the slow pace of her practice as running counter to systems of mass production. Her work embodies notions of care, consideration, and connection. She was featured in Ceramics Monthly and in September of 2025 will exhibit "The Clearing", an installation at Agnes Etherington Art Gallery. Follow on social