by Carole Epp | Dec 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
The Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust (QEST) makes awards ranging up to £15,000 to craftsmen and women of all ages to help them further their careers. Since 1991 the Trust has awarded £1.35 million to 208 craftspeople aged between 17 and 50 plus for study, training and work experience.
QEST was established in 1990 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Royal Warrant Holders Association and the 90th birthday of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. There is no age limit. But you need to demonstrate you already have a high level of skill and are firmly committed to your craft or trade.
Deadline: 8 January 2010
Source: VAN News
by Carole Epp | Dec 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
Ruth Chambers,
Giardino Segreto (detail), 2002 (Photo: Don Hall)
Looks to be a great issue full of ceramics:Articles
- A Case Study of the Kayak Man: How Do We Think about Objects in Craft Collections by Alena Buis
- Ruth Chambers : the Alchemical Mind by Virginia Eichhorn
- Espace Verre : a Really Well-Filled Twenty-Five Years by Léopold L. Foulem
- Eric Tardif: a Divergent Perspective on Wood Carving in Quebec by Barbara Weiser
Reviews
- Le voyage de l’âne harpiste: Appropriating Tradition by Marika Nelson
- Maurice Savoie: Art, architecture, industrie by Susan Surette
- Léopold L. Foulem: Reccuperation by Gail Vanstone
- Goyer-Bonneau: a Signature Style by Caroline Thibault
- Savaria: the Force of Fire by Annie Depont & Gilles Matte
- SOFA Event by Valérie Côté
Check the website for subscription info.
Don’t forget they are also looking for submissions – see the link here.
by Carole Epp | Dec 18, 2009 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
The Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Arts Awards Foundation: 2010 Emerging Artist Awards
Deadline for application: February 15
The Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Arts Awards Foundation has established a program of awards for emerging artists to support and encourage promising artists, early in their careers, while also serving to raise the profile of the arts in Alberta. The Awards are awarded every second year, beginning in 2008. Each Award consists of $10,000 and a medallion. Up to ten prizes may be awarded in each awards cycle.
Award recipients are selected by an application and adjudication process. Emerging Alberta Artists who meet the eligibility criteria may make application for the Award. Appraisals are required from two established artists who are in a position to provide the Foundation with a candid assessment of the Applicant’s current accomplishments and potential to develop.
Dawn Detarando, with appraisal support from the Alberta Craft Council, was a recipient of an emerging artist award in 2008.
The Application Guidelines, Application Form and Appraisal Form are available from the Foundation’s website at www.artsawards.ca. Deadline for receipt of Applications and accompanying two Appraisals is Feb. 15, 2010.
by Carole Epp | Dec 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
I’m sure not many of you are strangers to the amazing Vicki Hardin and her tireless work for our ceramics community. If you are, do make sure to check out the links posted further down. Vicki has some of the best ceramic resources out there, and to boot her studio work is incredible too! Not sure how she finds the time…Enjoy.
Bio
Vicki Hardin, an established clay artist, has worked in clay for 30 years producing raku and pit fired pottery, garnering national and regional attention and praise for her work. She has shown throughout the southwest region, extensively in Texas, where she maintains her studio, Clay Art Pottery, home and family. Her pottery is currently on view at Show of Hands Gallery in Philadelphia and at her studio. In 1984 she established Clay Art Pottery at the Chicken Farm Art Center in San Angelo, where she continues to maintain a studio and gallery space. Her site is available at VickiHardin.com. She hosts the ClayArtWebGuide, an internet website and resource to those interested in clay, and the Kiln God National Ceramic Exhibition.
Artists Statement
Handbuilding is my passion. My work reflects my appreciation of the old, ancient works of a world that has moved on. The hand-built vessels are poised on a balance between primitive simplicity and grace, which I have often explored to free myself from a production ethic. Firing with alternative processes are my interest. This particular work is hand built and then bon fired. Website: VickiHardin.com
ClayArtWebGuide.com
and KilnGodNational.com[email protected]
by Carole Epp | Dec 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
Today’s post is so full of images I’m almost speechless. Well I’m actually a bit speechless at the impact of this work. When I read Leo’s email stating that this “work was about memorialization and a bit of politics of the time”, well the impact was even greater. There is a monumental overtone of sadness and unease – yet also rest, a sense of paying homage and an unsettling edge to this work. I only wish I could see it in the flesh as I’m sure it would be even more amazing. This work is from a show Leo had at the Jam Factory in Adelaide,South Australia in 2007, and a bronze sculpture on the beach from a few years earlier.
A bit of background about LEO NEUHOFER:
Education
2004 Bachelor of Visual Arts, Honours, University of SA, Underdale Campus
1987 Life drawing, Central School of Art, SA
1976 School of Art, University of SA Bachelor of Visual Arts
Professional Development
2000-2001 Residency – University of SA Ceramic Studio
2000 Residency- JamFactory Contemporary Craft and Design Ceramic Studio
1987 JamFactory Workshops
1987 Member of Central Studio Collective
1979 – 1986 Thrower, Bennett’s Magill Pottery Workshops
1978 Wood Sculpture, ST Antonin Noble Val, France
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2007 Connections, Jam Factory Contemporary Craft and Design, Adelaide, SA
2001 Translations, JamFactory Contemporary Craft and Design, Adelaide, SA
1996 Greenaway Gallery, Kenttown, SA Untitled
1994 Gargantuan Prospect Gallery, Prospect, SA
1993 Soulfairing Festival Theatre Foyer, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide, SA
1992 Prospect Gallery Studio, Prospect, SA Untitled
1992 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Richmond Vic Untitled
Selected Group Exhibitions
2007 SA Ceramic Award ,Central Gallery, Norwood, SA
2006 Collectanea, South Australia Museum, Adelaide, SA
2005 Crockery, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
2005 SA Ceramic Award, Central Gallery, Norwood, SA
2004 The Last Picture Show, N Gallery Uni SA Graduation Show, Underdale, SA
2002 Summer Group Show, Haeciety Art Gallery, Melbourne VIC
2001 SA Ceramic Award, Central Gallery, Norwood, SA
2001 10 years of Jamboree, JamFactory Contemporary Craft and Design, Adelaide, SA
2001 Blanc, Artspace Festival Centre, Adelaide, SA
2001 Odyssey, Adelaide, Hindley St,.SA
2001 Jamboree Clay JamFactory Contemporary Craft and Design, Adelaide, SA
2000 19th National Craft Acquisition Award, Darwin, NT
Collections
Art Gallery of South Australia, SA
City of Salisbury, SA
City of Prospect, SA
South Australian Cricket Association, SA
Artbank, NSW
City of Tea Tree Gully, SA Commissions City of Holdfast Shores, SA
City of Salisbury, SA
SA Orange Lane Market, SA
Australia Remembers – City of Prospect, SA Awards
South Australian Ceramic Award 2005
Publications
“Forms into New Bodies”, Christine Nicholls,
World Sculpture News vol; 14 no.2 spring 2008
Ceramics Art and Perception issue 61 Sept 2005
SA Ceramic Award 2001, 2005, 2007
Gold Coast Ceramic Award 1998
