Living and working in the coastal British Columbia community of Lund, a small, unincorporated village on the eastern shore of the Straight of Georgia, Stefanie Dueck draws on her diverse resume of metal craft to create artful, functional object for the home. It all began, as it often does, many years ago: an interest in sculpture dating to her childhood eventually lead Stefanie to the Kootenay School of the Arts in Nelson, BC, where she discovered metalwork as a student. The broad range of creative and practical opportunities the school’s metal shop presented immediately drew her in, and the path was set.

After graduation, Stefanie spent a year in Southern Spain, honing her blacksmithing skills and working in an architectural ironwork shop. On her return to British Columbia where she would waste no time forging her own path, Stefanie set up shop and expanded her repertoire to include sculpture, custom work, and the pursuit of techniques ranging from welding, fabrication, and cold forming in addition to traditional blacksmithing. Over the years, she has undertaken various endeavors that included marine glazier and high-rigger work in addition to her studio metalwork, proving invaluable to her ever-expanding skillset and growth as an artist. Unique work settings such as shipyards and cell towers have provided important aesthetic inspiration along the way.

Today, Stefanie draws from these wide-ranging experiences within art, craft, and industrial trades to design and form functional objects that “fuse rigidity and strength with the fluidity of the handmade.” Revisiting earlier designs with a renewed perspective, Stefanie currently focuses on sheet metal fold forming to produce utensils, serveware, and other culinary tools with a style all her own.