installation art – Gillian McMillan

Samantha Dickie: Large Scale Installations

Samantha Dickie, Still Point. 1100 components. Porcelain and filament. 7ft x 3.5ft x 10ft. 2019. Photo credit: Cathie Ferguson After a nearly two-year hiatus, the North-West Ceramics Foundation is thrilled to once again be able to present our free, public Speaker Series, this time via Zoom. Samantha Dickie will discuss her work on Thursday, November 25, at 7:30 pm. All are welcome, but registration is required. Please…

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November 11th, 2021

Art shows / travel

Judy Pfaff at Messums

Earlier this year my sister Mary sent me information on a major ceramics show that she'd just seen. Material: Earth A Survey of Ceramics was presented at a newly opened Art Centre in Tisbury, Wiltshire, just down the road from her home in Salisbury. The catalogue listing of a fine collection of mainly 21st Century English ceramics was fascinating, but of equal interest is the…

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October 25th, 2017

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.