by Carole Epp | Sep 14, 2014 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
Artist Statement
I look to make work that creates an effect on the individual person rather than, at first, the community at large. For me, attracting the individual is about finding a passion and creating a bond between maker and user. Original work, purposeful ceramics and creating conversations are the main points that I look to answer within my ceramic medium.
I describe the process I have investigated as “cut and paste”. Utilizing technical aspects of ceramics, related to throwing on the wheel, hand building and mold work. My aim is to create forms that are different but that also relate to my own self. This comes from explorations of design and personal preference, but also from outside sources such as graffiti, geometry, sociology and mass media (Tumblr).
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by Carole Epp | Sep 11, 2014 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
The Big Mug Spectacular
We are having a mug show,
You are invited to participate
Show opens December 11th 2014 7pm
Mugs need to arrive by November 15th 2014
24 mugs per artist
The gallery commission rate is 50%
We are accepting guest artists so if you know of any awesome mug makers do share their names etc.
The show is only open to Canadian artists working in Canada
Please reply back to
[email protected]
or call
519-434-5443
1-866-229-5244
I look forward to hearing from you all
Brian
Jonathon Bancroft-Snell Gallery-Galerie
258 Dundas Street
London, Ontario
N6A 1H3
by Carole Epp | Sep 11, 2014 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
I am a ceramic artist with
a sculptural practice, a functional practice and a lively curiosity about clay
and form. My influences are varied and many: organisms, plants, fine craft,
historical artifacts, architecture, and landscape. As I work intuitively, I delight in being a visual sponge,
soaking up images and then seeing what emerges in my pieces.
I recently completed a
body of sculptural work, titled MIX,
which is currently on exhibition at the Saskatchewan Craft Council’s Affinity
Gallery in Saskatoon.
This exhibition allowed me to indulge my interest in multiples and the
opportunity to create several larger pieces. Repetition is a powerful principle of design and I was
inspired by the work of several artists who use numerous simple components to
create compelling sculptures.
I have long admired de Waal’s elegant
groupings. Two years ago, on a visit to the Victoria and Albert Museum, I was thrilled
to look way up and catch sight of de Waal’s Signs and Wonders, a red
aluminium circle containing 425
porcelain vessels, positioned inside the dome. I could have happily spent an hour laying on the floor
gazing up at this installation! And as an aside, de Waal’s book The Hare with Amber Eyes is a delightful
read.
I am attracted to the detail and surfaces of Sherrill’s pieces. His forms are vital and energetic, a
trait that I strive for in my work. Now that I have tried welding and forging
metal I am even more impressed with his technical and aesthetic ability to
successfully merge disparate materials.
Louise Nevelson
As a formalist, I am in awe of Nevelson’s arranged and abstracted
sculptures. Her use of shadow and
positive and negative space is powerful and evocative. On a personal note I am also by inspired
Nevelson’s tenacity and determination to establish herself in the male
dominated art world of the mid-twentieth century.
Here are several of my pieces from my exhibition, MIX. You can see them in person at the Affinity Gallery in
Saskatoon until Oct. 18, 2014.
by Carole Epp | Sep 8, 2014 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, show us your influences, technical tuesday
(L) Threaded Lamp, 2013. Brad Turner
(R) Dressed, 2012. Janet Macpherson
$10,000 Awards for Emerging Ceramic and Glass Artists!
Are you an emerging artist? Do you want to develop your artistic practice? We have two opportunities for you!
The
Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery is calling for submissions to the 2014
RBC Award for Glass and Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramics.
These
prestigious national awards allow practicing early career ceramic and
glass artists to undertake a period of independent research, or other
activities that advance their artistic and professional practice at a
key moment in their careers. Award winners receive $10,000; a second
prize of $1,000 is also granted. The Selection Committee is comprised of
respected contemporary glass and ceramic artists (both sculptural and
functional) and other arts professionals. Winners will be announced and
the awards presented at a gala event in Waterloo Ontario on November 22,
2014.
To
be eligible for the Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramics or the RBC Award
for Glass, artists must be Canadian citizens or have Permanent Resident
status. They must have developed skills through training and/or
practice in the field (not necessarily in academic institutions) and be
recognized by other artists working in the same artistic tradition. All
applicants have maintained an independent professional practice for no
more than 10 years prior to their application.
Application Guidelines:
To download the complete guidelines for the RBC Award for Glass or the Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramics, visit http://www.theclayandglass.ca/awards. In order to be considered, applications for either award must be received electronically by Friday, October 3, 2014.
About the Awards:
The
RBC Award for Glass is supported by RBC as part of the RBC Emerging
Artists Project. The Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramics is supported by
the Keith and Winifred Shantz Fund for the Arts, held at The Kitchener
and Waterloo Community Foundation. Past recipients of both awards truly
represent the best of the emerging ceramic and glass artists in Canada.
Janet Macpherson of Toronto, Ontario was the winner of the 2013 Winifred
Shantz Award for Ceramics. Brad Turner of Calgary, Alberta was the
winner of the 2013 RBC Award for Glass.
Contact Information:
For additional information, please contact Christian Bernard Singer, Curator at
[email protected]
Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery • Galerie canadienne de la Céramique et du Verre
25 Caroline Street North • Waterloo, Ontario N2L 2Y5 • www.theclayandglass.ca
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