It might make more sense to read today's three blogs in the reverse order. I wrote the third, below, first. Each of the artists in the High Fire Culture show had a Yunomi displayed on individual shelves. I photographed the ones that appealed to me. At the end of Shelly Rosenblum's talk in the second gallery yesterday we watched as Martin Peters…
The North-West Ceramic Foundation sponsored talks to accompany the Ceramic show at Satellite gallery. Potter and Researcher Nora Vaillant walked around the exhibit, explaining the relationships between the featured potters and their mentors. All demonstrate clearly their passion for the Leach/Hamada philosophy. This is not to say that they never work outside this aesthetic but, like many of us, they are cheerfully influenced by the…
Thursday May 23rd saw the opening of High Fire Culture; Locating Leach/Hamada in West Coast Studio Pottery at Satellite Gallery. The show will be open until July 6th. www.satellitegallery.ca Curated by potter and independent researcher Nora Vaillant and Shelly Rosenblum, curator of Academic Programmes, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, the show has assembled work by nine BC potters who have been influenced by the…
Maggi Kneer's show "Around the World in 80 Plates" opened on Thursday May 2nd at the Gallery of BC Ceramics. Maggi loves to travel and has visited 60 countries. For this show she has hand-built eighty plates and has applied decals made from her collection of photographs. One could spend a long while with Maggi hearing all the stories that accompany the images. For her they…
Later in the day last Monday I drove in to Vancouver, mainly to help make up numbers for a quorum for Circle Craft's AGM. First I stopped at the Gallery of BC Ceramics to leave some new pieces for them. They now have four more small salt-fired jugbirds from last December's firing and a couple of earthenware plates. Manager Laura phoned me the next day…