Mary Hemphill is a hand-building artist of multiple mediums. With many years of set design and illustration experience, she approaches any art form as an opportunity to build and compose a detailed scene of imaginative suspended reality.
Mary graduated from New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) half-day program in 2018 and went on to study art and ceramics at Alfred University. New York State College of Ceramics (NYSCC) is where she first learned clay and all it’s sculptural properties. The transitive properties of ceramics’ many processes allowed for great conceptual exploration, and many of these sculptures came to mimic her illustrated digital work and vice versa. Digital likeness is consciously present in many sculptures she is inspired by rendered, pixelated evolutions of nature. She graduated cum laude in 2022 with a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts with a minor in Film. She has since began making work in her hometown, Marrero, Louisiana.
Photo courtesy of Trey Millward