Photography by Paul Leathers.
Educated at the Alberta College of Art, the University of Calgary (BFA) and the University of Tasmania (MFA) in Australia, Golley has participated in artist residencies, lectured, and given workshops in Canada, the USA, Australia, Denmark, China, Scotland, Hong Kong and Malta. Inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (RCA) in 2002 and the International Academy of Ceramics (IAC) in 2019, Trudy is the recipient of grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, Manitoba Arts Council, and Alberta Foundation for the Arts. She is represented in numerous public and private collections in Canada, the USA, China, Denmark and Australia. Her work investigates the sublime events that stir our memories of the undeniable power of the natural world — those intimate immensities that we are all a part of — through referencing the Northern Lights, the incendiary forces of a wildfire, or the mesmerizing rippling of sunlight reflecting off of a lake’s surface. Golley has taught Ceramics in the Visual Art Department at Red Deer Polytechnic since 2000.