AGE/Art Gallery at Evergreen – Gillian McMillan

unearthed: Mitra Mahmoodi & Jamal Tabasinejad

The other day I noticed that a Vancouver ceramic artist we'd invited to speak to TriCity Potters, Mitra Mahmoodi, was in a two-person show, along with fellow Iranian-Canadian artist Jamal Tabasinejad, at our local Evergreen Cultural Centre Gallery in Coquitlam. Somehow I missed the opening but I saw that there was to be a curator's talk about the show last Friday. At 12.30pm I joined…

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June 6th, 2024

Art shows / local pottery shows

Chronicles: Gailan Ngan

On the evening before Gailan Ngan's solo show opened at Coquitlam's Art Gallery/Evergreen I happened to be there to see 'Onegin' in the theatre. I knew the show was due to open on the next day, March 7th and asked if I could have a sneak peek. I was allowed.. so my photos have no people in them at all. The invitation says: 'Ngan…

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April 2nd, 2018

Gillian McMillan combines a true love for birds, a fine eye for colour, hands which have learnt to mould clay, and a free-flying imagination ready to form a bird into a jug, or a jug into a bird. Either way, the combination of bird form and jug shape is without pretence.