Zipporah Camille Thompson
“Deep into the vast ocean of mystery and uncertainty, exists an underworld container filled with relics and ancient pillars of the past emerging to stand tall and proud. Each grain of sand, molecule of salt and sea retains echoes of transatlantic violence. New aqueous futures arise through portals of hope and renewal. Part woman and sea creature, black Venus emerges from her lair, fertile with beauty and mystery. She reclaims and radiates transformative healing power in miraculous ways, birthing futurity, nourishment, and fullness of breath. Salt and sea sustains us and reminds us to forever draw upon source energy and to turn within, collectively triumphing over violent histories and contemporaries wrought with darkness.”
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Zipporah Camille Thompson (she.her.hers) is a weaver and sculptor based in Atlanta, Georgia – land of the Muskogee. Thompson explores alchemical transformations through clay + woven textiles. Chaos, metamorphosis, and triumph are examined through ancestral narratives patchworked with black/brown liberatory and imagined geographies. Materialized into altars, sculpted shapeshifters, and hybrid landscapes, Thompson’s work investigates hope, myth, magic, and reconstructed power through limitless spirituality.
She received her MFA from the University of Georgia and her BFA from the University of North Carolina Charlotte. Her work has been featured in numerous publications and shown in spaces, nationally and internationally. Zipporah Camille Thompson is a 2024 Skowhegan resident, 2024 South Arts Georgia Fellow for Visual Arts, a 2023 recipient of the Margie E. West Prize, a 2021 MOCA GA Working Artist Project Fellow, a 2020 Artadia Atlanta Awardee, a Watershed Zenobia Scholarship Award grantee, an NCECA Multicultural Fellow, and an Idea Capital Travel Grant recipient. Thompson is represented by Whitespace Gallery in Atlanta, GA. She is a history addict, roller-skater, and lover of unicorns, zombies, the moon, tarot and all things fantasy.