Bio

Marisa Falconi (1984) is a Canadian-Italian visual artist. She graduated from the University of Toronto (2010) with an Hon. BA in Cultural Anthropology and a lifelong fascination with how humans are shaped by material culture. Her work in ceramics, taught by many teachers across Canada and Australia, offers a shift from thinking to feeling; touching the world as a way of making sense of it.

Her forms are textured, and deliberate in their imperfection. They reflect a reverence for the handmade in an era flattened by digital consumption. For Marisa, working in clay is not about escape, but about return to slowness, sensation and meaning.

Her work draws from the aesthetic languages of ancient vessels, weathered architecture, and vernacular craft, yet remains firmly contemporary in its refusal of mass production and sameness. Each object is a record of process, presence, and human scale.

Marisa currently studies at the Byron School of Art, and continues creating small-batch sculptural ceramics from her seaside studio on the southern Gold Coast.