by Carole Epp | Feb 26, 2011 | Uncategorized
Betty Woodman
Wednesday, March 2, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario
Members $15 / public $18 / students $12
Widely recognized as one of the most important ceramic artists working today, Betty Woodman will speak about her life and art on the eve of the opening of an exhibition of her work at the Gardiner Museum. Woodman is a master of colour and form whose painterly sculptures and installations bring images of Matisse, Picasso and Miro to mind. In 2006 she was given a full retrospective at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, an honour rarely bestowed by that institution on an individual living artist. Betty Woodman: Places, Spaces and Things opens to the public at the Gardiner Museum on March 3, 2011. Presented in partnership with the Gardiner Museum.
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by Carole Epp | Feb 26, 2011 | Uncategorized
All the pinched bowls are the same size: hand-sized – as is demanded by the pinching process. They show all the variety and movement which porcelain clay allows and which the vagaries of wood firing embellishes them with. At the same time their inate ”pinched” quality gives them life and liveliness. The works show an exploration of pattern in which echoes of my childhood in Africa can be detected.
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by Carole Epp | Feb 25, 2011 | Uncategorized
Posted on February 18, 2011 in CARFAC, Copyright Bill C32, NEWS & VIEWS
via Artrubicon
Ottawa, Thursday, February 16, 2011 – The Canadian Museums Association told a parliamentary committee on Tuesday they would like to see the Exhibition Right “abolished”. Jon Tupper, President of the CMA, also asked to be exempt from paying artist fees for things such as reproductions in catalogues, in slides for public lectures and online. Canadian museums are the main source of copyright income for visual artists. An amendment proposed by Bill C-32 to open fair dealing to education appears to have been perceived by the museum community as an invitation to stop paying the fees that artists such as Jack Chambers fought so hard for. Although they claim their budgets are too tight, for most public galleries artists’ fees represent a small portion of their budget. When faced with similar arguments back in the 1970’s, artist Tony Urquhart suggested to a Montreal museum director that instead of hosting twenty contemporary exhibits in a year, he host nineteen and use the last budget to pay the artists. READ COMPLETE ARTICLE >> Tiny URL for this post: http://tinyurl.com/4nv8mt3
by Carole Epp | Feb 25, 2011 | Uncategorized
guest speaker Emily McCulloch Childs of McCulloch & McCulloch
www.mccullochandmcculloch.com.au
Text on ceramics has a long and rich history, from ancient pictograms scratched on clay tablets to provocative works from the conceptual art movement of the 60s and 70s. Forming Words is an exhibition designed to explore and articulate ideas within this popular movement in ceramic practice. Ceramic art has the ability to communicate without words, through touch, sight and use, making the decision to incorporate text a deliberate and potentially provocative choice. Eight Australian ceramicists exhibit works that explore how the written word furthers our appreciation of a three dimensional artwork, merging text and form to convey a cohesive idea. Exhibiting artists: Jane Walton, Connie Lichti, Kylie Johnson, Mel Robson, Jan Downes, Ingrid Tufts, Wendy Hadfield-Smith, Sarit Cohen Curators: Ingrid Tufts and Sophie Milnevia Pan Gallery
by Carole Epp | Feb 25, 2011 | Uncategorized
I am a ceramic artist living on Gabriola Island, BC where I have maintained a studio pottery for twenty years or so. Presently, I produce a variety of ceramic ware in my studio. I make functional stoneware that is reduction-fired but I also create glazed raku and naked raku vessels and sculptural forms.
by Carole Epp | Feb 24, 2011 | Uncategorized
A Precarious Moment in Ceramics
 2008
Saggar-fired stoneware tiles and ink
150x120cm
Plan For World Peace
 2002
Clay and found objects
120cm wide
Settlers of Grey Islands
 2010
Coloured porcelain and inkjet prints
Interactive game Michael Flaherty, b. 1978, St. John’s, Newfoundland. As a graduate of NSCAD University (BFA, 2001) Michael studied salt-glaze stoneware
production under the tutelage of master potter Jackie Seaton in Ontario before moving
on to become Clay Studio Coordinator and Instructor at the Craft Council of
Newfoundland and Labrador. More studies at University of Regina (MFA, 2007)
coincided with a residency at at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts
in Montana (2005) and sessional teaching appointments at NSCAD University (2006).
In 2007 Michael returned to Newfoundland where he now maintains an active studio
practice. Recent works have included a cross-Canada bicycle ride/art intervention,
and three months spent living alone and making a ceramic installation on a deserted
island off Newfoundland’s north coast.
Michael currently lives in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, where he is the Sculpture
Technician in the Fine Arts Program at Memorial University of Newfoundland –
Grenfell Campus.
In addition to being an artist, Michael is a compulsive volunteer in artist run
culture and a bicycle advocate, instructor and mechanic.www.ceramicfundamentalist.com |
