Cleo Furney Creates

Vancouver Island-based artist, Cleo Furney, displays her creative endeavours in ceramics, painting, sculpture, and more

Explore Unique, Handmade Art: Cleo Furney’s Creations

Cleo’s Collection

Discover Cleo’s art with handmade sculptures, ceramics, paintings, and more!

Learn more about each work by selecting an image.

The image shows a handmade artwork of a ceramic animal head with grey skin, a large pink mouth with a large tongue, large teeth, and eyes with red pupils.

Dog, Rat, Shark, etc.

6” x 4.5” x 3”
2023-2024. Hand-built ceramics

The image shows a handmade ceramic teapot. It has a smooth surface glazed with floating blue, a light blue teal colour with small brown specks. The shape of the teapot is very rounded and curved with a connected spout.

Teapot

7” x 3.5” x 6”

  1. Hand-built ceramics
This image shows a handmade artwork of a copper wire sculpture of a large dog skeleton. The copper skeleton is posed in a walking position with its head down and is lying on a wooden base with a black marble vinyl cover.

Copper Skeleton Dog

27″ x 4’10” x 1’6″

  1. Copper wire, wood, vinyl wrap
This image shows four handmade prints of the same image in different colours. The image is of a mouse in a mousetrap with a pool of blood behind it.

Immortal 

5” x 7”

  1. Ink, paper
This image shows a handmade artwork of two unfired clay mice being mutilated by mouse traps. On a black paper background, chalk is used to create a cartoon chalk outline of the mice and traps. Printing ink is splattered around the mice to mimic blood.

Crime Scene

2” x 20” x 14”

2024. Unfired clay, paper, chalk, screen printing ink, acrylic paint, mouse trap, rat trap

    Palm trees

    Palm trees

    Palm trees

    The image shows a handmade artwork of a ceramic pot with pressed ferns making a circle glazed green, 3D maggots in the circle and the 3D rotted decaying fish, a dog skull covered in dirt and moss, and three shiny blue beetles.

    Death Pot

    10” x 7” x 7”

    1. Hand-built ceramics
    The image shows a handmade artwork of a plaster and wire sculpture with six stick figures in various poses hanging from a hoop which hangs with a clear fishing line from a central point so it spins and casts shadows.

    Pure Movement

    8” x 12” x 12”

    1. Plaster, wire, acrylic paint
    This image shows a handmade artwork of a small copper wire dog skeleton lying on a colourful mosaic circle on top of a canvas place setting.

    Street Dog

    6.5” x 20” x 1”

    2024. Hand-built ceramics, copper wire, canvas

    This image shows a handmade textile sculpture of a jellyfish. The jellyfish is made out of many layers of tulle fabric to give it dimension. The tentacles are made of long strands of tulle, pearls, and lace.

    Autonomy

    14″ x 14″ x 36″

    2024. Cardboard, fabric, string lights, hot glue

    Old red car in Havana

    Old red car in Havana

    Old red car in Havana

    Old red car in Havana

    The image shows a handmade artwork of a humpback whale made of ocean garbage including ropes, golf balls, and dishes. The whale is held up on a broken fishing rod secured to a wooden base weighted with a brick, a mug, and a rock.

    Trash Whale

    54” x 36” x 13”

    2024. Found objects, wire, wood panel, acrylic paint

    The image shows a handmade artwork of a copper wire sculpture of a molar tooth. The tooth was created with one line of copper wire bent around to create the shape.

    Copper Tooth

    8” x 4”x 3.5”

    1. Copper wire
    This image shows a handmade artwork of a realistic ceramic fish head with a yellow/orange goat eyeball in its mouth.

    Fish and the Mouth

    5” x 3.5” x 2.5”

    1. Hand-built ceramics
    This image shows a handmade artwork of two necklaces and a pair of earrings made of silver chain and wire, plastic pearls, and human teeth.

    Pearly Whites

    8″ x 3.5″ x .25″
    2021-2022. Chain, wire, plastic pearls, human teeth

    This image shows a handmade artwork of a small copper wire dog skeleton hanging on a clear fishing line inside a white cardboard box. The dog skeleton spins on the fishing line casting different shadows against the white box.

    Hanging On

    9” x 6.5” x 8”

    2022. Cardboard, acrylic paint, copper wire, fishing line

    Elephant Ears

    2023

    Beach picnic

    Beach picnic