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ABOUT THE ARTIST
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Zipporah Camille Thompson (she/her/hers) is a weaver and sculptor based in Atlanta, Georgia.
Thompson’s work explores alchemical transformations through clay and woven textiles, delving
into themes of chaos, metamorphosis, and triumph. Her practice weaves together ancestral
narratives with Black and Brown liberatory histories, alongside imagined geographies, creating
altars, sculpted shapeshifters, and hybrid landscapes. Through these works, she investigates
hope, myth, magic, and the reclamation of power within a boundless spiritual framework.
Thompson earned her MFA from the University of Georgia and her BFA from the University of
North Carolina at Charlotte. Her work has been featured in numerous publications and exhibited
nationally and internationally. She is a 2024 Skowhegan resident, a 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, and has received multiple honors, including the Watershed Zenobia Scholarship, the NCECA Multicultural Fellowship, and an Idea Capital Travel Grant.
Thompson is represented by Whitespace Gallery in Atlanta, GA. Outside of her practice, she is a
history enthusiast, roller-skater, and lover of unicorns, zombies, the moon, tarot, and all things fantasy.
Artist Statement
ZIPPORAH CAMILLE THOMPSON
My work is rooted in ancestral traditions, where I use clay and fiber to hand weave nets, baskets, and tapestries. Through these materials and processes, I explore light, shadow, chance, and the magic that exists in the spaces between. Drawing on mythology and the otherworldly, I overlay these works with the haunting ethereal qualities of landscape paintings influenced by manifest destiny. Using neon hues and iridescent material,
I channel healing energy and protection magic for Black/Indigenous, cis/nonbinary/trans, differently-abled, women, and femmes—past, present, and future.
Inspired by Southern Gothic and occult traditions, I move beyond rigid, traditional
thinking to connect with source energy and a limitless spirituality centered in queerness, empowerment, and choice. Through abstraction, ecology, and the fantastical, my work conveys a mystical, alchemical message that reflects fluidity, chaos, metamorphosis, and cyclicality.
Drawing on natural forces—oceanic currents, resilient marsh habitats, hurricane gusts,
the ouroboros, celestial bodies, cloud formations, moths, weather patterns, and auric fields—my work embodies a divine power: the power to recreate, redefine, and protect oneself in a rapidly changing climate. This message speaks to the futurity and possibility of our collective resilience in the face of vulnerable, increasingly unrecognizable landscapes.
At the heart of my practice is lunar feminist power, a gentle reminder that we can summon
triumph, hope, and joy even during the darkest nights. The work calls us to pause and recognize that the strength and healing we seek has always been within us, deeply rooted in the land—nourished by matriarchal soil workers, washerwomen, fishers, and caretakers of home, family, and the natural world.