Call for entry: Medalta International Cup Show
If you’ve ever met me, you’ll know that I speak very highly of the Medalta Artist in Residence program. These are some amazing folks doing great stuff and its so nice to see an internationally recognized residency program so close to my home. So of course I jump at any opportunity to work with them and thus I am beyond excited to announce the first ever Medalta International Cup Show. How thrilling to see an international cup show taking place in Canada.
Show us your mugs (or cups, yunomis, steins, etc) and be a part of Medalta’s first annual International Cup Show!
This show – August 23 to September 28 – is being juried by (yours truly!) Musing About Mud blogger and Canadian ceramic artist, Carole Epp.
The submission deadline is Thursday, May 30 so if
you’re interested, have a look at the eligibility requirements,
important dates and other information on this page and fill out the
handy-dandy form (along with payment). Thanks for your interest
and good luck!
JUROR
Carole Epp is likely best known for her work on Musing About Mud, (www.musingaboutmud.blogspot.com)
an online resource of ceramic related content. She is a graduate of the
Australian National University, produces two distinct lines of
functional and sculptural ceramics, exhibits internationally, and at the
end of the day is a mother to two charming young boys.
ELIGIBILITY
The exhibition is open to all international artists. Identify yourself as a student to be entered into the right competition. Work can be either
functional or sculptural so long as it addresses the idea of “the cup”.
Please submit only original work that has been completed in the last
two years. All work must use at least 50% fired clay as the primary
medium.
Work must not exceed 2 feet in width.
All work must be properly prepared for exhibition, be durable enough
to survive shipping and display, and come with exhibition/assemblage
instructions if applicable. Medalta reserves the right to reject any
work that is not suitably prepared for exhibition or that differs from
the original submission.
Medalta reserves the right to use images and photographs of accepted
works for the purposes of promotional materials, including postcards,
calendars, local media as well as online promotion.
All entries must be for sale, (priced in Canadian Dollars).
IMPORTANT DATES
Applications Due May 30th
Email Notification Begins June 15th 2013
Accepted Work Due July 20th 2013
Show Dates August 23rd to September 28th 2013.
Opening reception TBA
All sold and unsold work shipped back October 2013
SHIPMENT OF WORK
All artwork must arrive at Medalta no later than July 20th. Artists
are responsible for all shipping and insurance costs to the gallery.
COMMISSION
All entries must be for sale, (priced in Canadian Dollars). Medalta will receive commission of 40% on all sales.
AWARDS
Several of the selected artists will be featured on the Musing About Mud blog.
And we’re wrangling more prizes as we speak!
Awards will be determined by the juror and announced at the opening reception. Artists do not need to be present to win.
Find out everything you need to know and the application form here: http://medalta.org/showusyourmugs
Make sure to apply – because you know if you don’t you’ll never hear the end of it from me : )
Last chance to check out some amazing ceramic shows at the Surrey Art Gallery
The future is already here: Alex McLeod and Brendan Tang
January 19 to March 24, 2013
See related events.
What if the cyberworld of video games entered the frame of
19th century western landscape painting? Or if Ming Dynasty-style
ceramic vessels fused with the cartoon pop of contemporary
anime? Artists Alex McLeod and Brendan Tang deploy an arsenal of Asian
and Western historical styles, science fiction, popular culture, and new
technologies as they combine ceramics, photography, and projected video
to create mesmerizing fantasy worlds that probe the boundaries between
the real and the virtual.
The heart of this exhibition is a collaborative mixed-media
installation by Tang and McLeod that blends digital projection with
ceramic sculpture. Each artist is also represented by a selection of
independent work. Inspired by video games, Romantic landscape paintings,
and dioramas, McLeod’s surreal environments depicted in large panoramic
photographs exist in their own indeterminate time and space. Brendan
Tang’s colourful and wildly incongruous Manga Ormolu ceramic vessels
fuse Asian and Western historical decorative styles with pop art forms
derived from Japanese anime and manga. Guest curated by Rachel Lafo.
Ornamentalism: Clint Neufeld and Dirk Staschke
January 19 to March 24, 2013
See related events.
Everyday forms – from furniture and fruit to car engines and
confections – are transformed into poignant allegories of desire,
labour, and leisure by these two virtuoso ceramic sculptors.
Beyond the Vessel’s Edge: Ceramics from the Permanent Collection
January 19 to March 24, 2013
See related events.
The functional gives way to the sculptural in this collection
of ceramics by artists John Chalke, Tam Irving, Ian Johnston, Sally
Michener, Alwyn O’Brien, Linda Stanbridge, and Diana Lynn Thompson.
Surrey Art Gallery is located in the Surrey Arts Centre
13750 – 88 Avenue
Surrey, BC Canada V3W 3L1
1 block east of King George Blvd, in Bear Creek Park
Phone: 604-501-5566
Fax:. 604-501-5581
EMail: [email protected]
www.surrey.ca/culture-recreation/1564.aspx
Call for entry: 11th Bienal International de Ceramica Artistica
A Câmara Municipal de
Aveiro informa da abertura do período de inscrições para a participação
na décima primeira edição da Bienal Internacional de Cerâmica Artística
de Aveiro. Os artistas interessados em participar deverão efetuar a sua
inscrição até 12 de abril de 2013 para o secretariado da Bienal que irá
funcionar na Divisão de Ação Cultural, Casa Municipal da Cultura –
Edifício Fernando Távora, Praça da República, 3810-156 Aveiro.
Na Bienal poderão
participar os artistas, nacionais ou estrangeiros, com um máximo de duas
obras que serão selecionadas pelos membros do júri. As obras poderão
ser trabalhos individuais ou coletivos.
A XI Bienal
Internacional de Cerâmica Artística, a exemplo de anos anteriores,
pretende contribuir, de forma efetiva, para o desenvolvimento
sociocultural e estimular a experimentação e a criatividade; procura ser
um espaço aberto ao diálogo, à divulgação e ao confronto de tendências e
de contacto com os conceitos atuais de cerâmica artística; tem ainda
como objetivo essencial divulgar os caminhos mais significativos da
cerâmica artística contemporânea que se faz pelos cinco continentes;
mostrar a diversidade formal e a renovação estética que se vem
processando, bem como as capacidades dos novos materiais e técnicas
postas ao serviço da arte.
Following via google translate. My apologies for any errors in translation.
The Municipality of Aveiro informs the opening of the registration period for participation in the eleventh edition of the International Biennial of Artistic Ceramics Aveiro. Artists interested in participating should make their registration until April 12, 2013 to the Secretariat of the Biennale that will work in the Division of Cultural Action, Municipal House of Culture – Fernando Távora Building, Republic Square, 3810-156 Aveiro.
May participate in the Biennial artists, domestic or foreign, with a maximum of two works that will be selected by the jury. The works may be individual or collective.
The Eleventh International Biennial of Artistic Ceramics, like previous years, intends to contribute effectively to the socio-cultural development and encourage experimentation and creativity; seeks to be an open dialogue, disclosure and comparison of trends and contact with current concepts of artistic ceramics, has yet to disclose the essential objective ways most significant contemporary artistic pottery that is made by the five continents, showing the diversity and formal aesthetic renewal that comes from processing, as well as the capabilities of new materials and techniques put at the service of art.
Find out more on their website here.
monday morning eye candy: Manos Kalamenios
Artist Statement
Clay as a material itself is soil and if you
were to step in it with your boots the first thing you would do is to
wash it off, but by transforming this mud through the ceramic process,
it’s inherent value forces us to stop and pay attention. By exploiting
the possibilities of a material I always try to find or release the
hidden beauty from something that may normally be overlooked.
It
is very difficult these days to create something unique and innovative,
so by using the ‘usual’ in an unusual way I hope to make people see
ordinary objects in a different light.
I am driven by a force to
create, innovate and experiment. I see my work pushing and challenging
the perceived boundaries of creative processes, techniques and
materials.
I always try to use unconventional materials and tools
in an unexpected way or try to push the boundaries of that material or
tool’s properties, and stretch its potential to the next level. By doing
this I always find something new which drives me further. For instance,
prior to my studies, I worked as a chef and I sometimes bring this
previous experience and its tools into my ceramics.
I try to keep my work as minimal as possible. I believe less is more.
I
love the purity and the translucence of bone china and much of my
recent work centres on this. In my degree exhibition I married the
ancient craft of ceramics with 21 st century technology, by applying QR
code ceramic transfers on to bone china. My QR codes carried messages
from Greek superstitions and songs. The key to unlock the QR codes is
your own smart phone device.
As bone china contains bone ash it
symbolises the fact that as something dies something new is born just
like the ancient Greek Phoenix that rose from the ashes.
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