The Craft Council of BC is hosting sculptor Debra Sloan's latest solo show 'Les Grandes Dames' at its gallery/craft shop at 1386 Cartwright street, on Granville Island. It's in the building that we knew as Crafthouse in the past. When we found that registration for the Opening on June 6th was full we made a plan to attend Debra's scheduled artist's talk and see the…
Tam Irving led the second 'conversation' at the Museum of Anthropology with Glenn Lewis and Debra Sloan. With carefully planned questions he encouraged the two artists to reveal the thinking behind their work, Glenn's from 1969 and Debra's from her very recent year spent as ceramic artist-in-residence amongst the Koerner Ceramic Collection. Tam pointed out that both artists have strong connections…
Earlier this year Vancouver sculptor Debra Sloan was an artist-in-residence at the Leach Pottery in St. Ives. Debra has taught pottery and sculpture for many years and can certainly make pots on the wheel, but she did not make Leach-inspired pots while she was in Cornwall. It turns out that Bernard Leach did in fact make clay sculpture as well as his writings, wheel-throwing and…
Debra Sloan was the speaker for TriCity Potters' January meeting. Because she is a sculptor we had several artists attending who work only in clay sculpture. Susan Gorris had suggested we invite Debra, specifically to tell us all about the two 3-month residencies she has attended in Hungary. Susan and her friend made it a really Hungarian evening by making special treats to eat with…
BC Potters Guild webmaster and Burnaby Arts Council board member Linda Lewis has curated a show, 'Ceramic Sensibilities: One to Many'. The opening was on Saturday, so knowing that I would be unable to attend I stopped in at the Deer Lake Art Gallery on my way to Granville Island on Thursday afternoon, just after the show was set up. …