by Carole Epp | Apr 22, 2012 | Uncategorized
Join us in Prince George for our third Northern BC Clayfest, August 9, 10 & 11, 2012! This exciting event offers you the opportunity to learn about advanced clay techniques from some of the world’s renowned potters. You can network with your fellow artists and meet our exciting workshop presenters. We are hosting four acclaimed clay artists to present two days of techniques. Presenters will also provide a 45 minute slide show or video along with their demonstrations for the benefit of the participants.
2012 Clayfest includes an evening social event, co-hosted by Two Rivers Gallery. At the Wine and Cheese Reception you will get to meet our presenters and view work from members of the Prince George Potters’ Guild. Two Rivers Gallery will be hosting a juried show of members’ work for the month of August based on the theme “Profiles”. Both functional and non-functional pottery will be featured. To help with the costs of this event, we will have a “Mug Wall” where you can purchase mugs from your fellow potters. Please be sure to bring your own mug to contribute to this fundraiser.
During the workshop, you will have the opportunity to browse and purchase from the works of the visiting presenters and your fellow artisans. Other displays will include:
- Pottery suppliers
- Clayfest Mug Wall
- Silent Auction
- Souvenir items
- The Clayfest Marketplace will also have an small selection of beverages and snacks for purchase.
To learn more about the Northern BC Clayfest, visit our
website. by Carole Epp | Apr 20, 2012 | Uncategorized
Until May 26th
Ryan Greenheck and Nick Joerling are two functional potters who will share the gallery at Santa Fe Clay this spring.
Ryan Greenheck’s work combines a meticulous, detailed aesthetic with pure function. His luminous glazes meld perfectly with the white porcelain clay. He makes his home in Philadelphia.
Nick Joerling throws and alters his stoneware forms creating loose, fluid pots that invite use and handling. His pots combine “qualities of sensuality, empathy, humor and risk.” He has long been associated with the crafts community that makes their home in Penland, NC.
www.santafeclay.com/gallery.htm
by Carole Epp | Apr 20, 2012 | Uncategorized
Cnr Range Road & Waverley Parade
Mittagong NSW 2575
Postal address:
PO Box 34, Mittagong
NSW 2575 AUSTRALIA Phone: 02 4860 2083
Fax: 02 4860 2081www.susiemcmeekin.com
http://www.sturt.nsw.edu.au/exh_current.htm
by Carole Epp | Apr 19, 2012 | Uncategorized
Show runs until June 10th
Curated by Jen Budney Clint Neufeld, an artist based near Saskatoon in Osler, Saskatchewan, is ex-military and a former firefighter. His works embody the apparent contradictions between typically masculine pursuits and notions of beauty, ornamentation, and artistry. Taking the grease-monkey’s pre-occupation with muscle cars, he replicates the components of engines, transmissions, and axles in ceramic, finished like fine china, and sets them on elegant stands and furniture such as teacarts and chaises longues. The resulting sculptures ask viewers to consider men’s garage “tinkering” in terms of aesthetics, transformation, and even love. Neufeld, who has been working as a professional artist for just five years, is a rising star in the Canadian art scene. In 2011, he had solo exhibitions at public art galleries across the country and was also the first runner-up to the national Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramics. In 2012, his work is featured in the groundbreaking exhibition, Oh, Canada, at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts, one of the premier institutions for contemporary art in the United States. The title of his exhibition at the Mendel makes reference to a long-running American comic strip that began in 1918. It depicted male characters holding weekly conversations about automobiles, and the characters aged normally through the decades. Similarly, Neufeld’s work speaks to the passing of knowledge through generatiotns. A cherished childhood memory is his grandfather lovingly washing his hands in gasoline, to remove the oil and paint they’d gathered after their “work” together. Decorations on Neufeld’s sculptures are inspired as much by his grandmother’s décor as by the history of ceramics. This is Neufeld’s first solo exhibition at the Mendel Art Gallery, organized by Associate Curator Jen Budney. It features new work as well as pieces borrowed from private and public collections. Neufeld’s sculptures were first exhibited here in the 2008 group exhibition, Flatlanders. Since then, he has had solo exhibitions at Montreal’s Parisian Laundry Gallery; Two Rivers Art Gallery in Prince George, British Columbia; the Estevan Art Gallery; and the Mann Gallery in Prince Albert. Born in Saskatoon in 1975, Neufeld grew up in Warman. He completed his BFA at the University of Saskatchewan and received his MFA from Concordia University in Montreal.via www.mendel.ca950 Spadina Crescent East
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
by Carole Epp | Apr 19, 2012 | Uncategorized
The theme for this conference is ‘Subversive Clay’ and over four days it will explore clay as a medium capable of challenging artistic, social and cultural issues through an investigation across past traditions and invigorating new experimentations.
Representing excellence in contemporary clay practice from around the world, the conference will consider how ceramic artists contest traditional approaches to clay as a medium, as an important art form, and thus its role in society.
“On behalf of Craftsouth and the South Australian ceramics community I am pleased to introduce the 2012 Australian Ceramics Triennale and invite you to join us in Adelaide from 28th September to 1st October.
This will be the 13th National Ceramics Conference and we are proud to present an exciting program that brings together leading national and international ceramics practitioners, educators, collectors, critics and cultural theorists in celebrating diversity, plus social and cultural approaches to this field.”
Peter Johnson, Chair, Ceramics Triennale Steering Committee
Sophia Phillips (Ceramic Artist) goes on further to say … “’Subversive Clay’ will explore clay as a medium capable of challenging artistic, social and cultural issues through investigating past traditions and invigorating future experimentation.
The field of ceramics has a long history of ducking trends and laying its own path in the world of the visual arts. The physical versatility of clay means it is not a medium easily confined to set definitions or aesthetics. It is that slipperiness, both literal and figurative, which makes clay an excellent vehicle for the subversion of accepted norms, as well as an extraordinarily useful material.
The term ‘subversive clay’ initially leads one to think of the socio-cultural narratives and commentaries explored by many ceramic artists. However there are other quiet ways in which clay and ceramic artists subvert assumptions within and outside the field … sometimes ideas are forgotten or mistaken for one thing, when in fact they are another, or both. The contradictions, confusions and passionate disagreements over ‘The Vessel’, ‘Skill’ and the ‘Is it Art or Craft’ question (to name a few) are part and parcel of the ‘clay-game’ along with unkempt nails and questionable footwear. These points of friction are integral to development, exploration and the expansion of knowledge – and ultimately such discussions are about shaking up assumptions.”
Sophia Phillips 2011
The Speakers and Artists program will be a melting pot of debates and presentations around the important discourses within the ceramics and wider artworld, and a focal point for discussion on how the craft and its variety of practitioners are evolving to meet new challenges. The conference program will consist of keynote speakers followed by chaired panels. Akio Takamori and Masamichi Yoshikawa will lead Masterclasses in the week prior to the conference. There will be demonstrations running throughout the conference weekend at the JamFactory, University of South Australia and Adelaide College of the Arts, TAFE SA. We have over 18 artists doing demonstrations including such names as Prue Venables, Gerry Wedd, Phil Hart, Merran Esson, Ernabella, just to name a few.Find out more on their website and register today!
