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Biography | Portfolio
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Colin Schleeh was born in Montreal, Quebec in 1955. He began his
design career working for his father, sculptor Hans Schleeh, polishing marble sculptures
and cleaning the ever-growing piles of marble chips. Attracted to the organic qualities of
wood, he began his studies in wood design at the age of 17, apprenticing at the Berufs und
Fachschule, Holz und
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Kunstgewerbe in Stuttgart Germany, before moving to Edmonton where he
also completed a Canadian apprenticeship as a furniture designer and builder at the Northern
Alberta Institute of Technology. Opening his studio in 1980, Schleeh designed and built
custom furniture, as well as having his own work featured in galleries and stores across
western Canada. Schleeh headed the Fine Arts studio at Dawson College and taught for ten
years, always maintaining his own studio creating his collection of handmade vases and
decorative art.
Artist Statement: "I am an artist who delights in creating forms that celebrate the texture
and color dimensions of both traditional and non-traditional materials and techniques. I
strive for simple elegance, and uses diverse materials such as resin, paper, film, cement,
wood and plastics to create spare, timeless objects of wonder. The handmade Rift Vase was
born from a desire to see an impossibly thin wooden vessel hold water. Each piece is an
individual landscape where the form of the vessel becomes a reverent frame."
Collections: Colin Schleeh has designed commissions for Hermes of Paris (New York),
Bulgari and Birks. Schleeh is currently featured in the Art Gallery of Ontario and Montreal
Museum of Fine Arts, and is represented in galleries and collections internationally.
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