local pottery shows / Vancouver Art

High Fire Culture: Locating Leach/Hamada in West Coast Studio Pottery

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…

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May 26th, 2013
local pottery shows / Vancouver Art

Around the World in 80 Plates

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…

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May 4th, 2013
Gillian's work / local pottery shows / Vancouver Art

Granville Island again

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…

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April 29th, 2013
TriCity Potters / Vancouver Art

Fredi Rahn at TriCity Potters

Last Wednesday Fredi Rahn spoke to our group, showing us her hand-building technique and some slides of her work.       Fredi studied Ceramics at Sheridan College (Ontario) and Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and since 1990 has taught at Emily Carr University and Shadbolt Centre for the Arts.     While we tried to figure out projector, laptop computer and memory…

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April 21st, 2013
Vancouver Art

Elementum: Form, Function & Feast

350 people attended Elementum: Form, Function and Feast, the 6th Triennial Canadian Clay Ceramic Symposium, held at Shadbolt Centre for the Arts on Saturday. With 13 presenters there was something for everybody, whether beginner or professional, wheel thrower, hand builder, sculptor, teacher, curator or writer. To be honest I saw it as a chance to catch up with potters I've met in over 40 years…

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March 25th, 2013