On Thursday evening June MacDonald and I drove over to Place des Arts in Coquitlam for the opening of Fraser Valley potter Kwai Sang Wong’s show: ‘When Imagination Meets Clay’.
Winnie started pottery lessons with June at Place des Arts several years ago so was pleased to have the show of her recent work on display there. Her main interest is to explore the idea of the teapot.
She shows a variety of teapot forms, some with loopy handles and many colours of glaze, and most non-functional especially in the case of the raku-fired pieces which have decorative holes as part of the design.
I liked her miniature teapots which showed a bigger variety of lid treatments and were functional. Other teapots were halved and displayed on the wall. The glaze effects on those were forms referring to her experience of immigration.
The show continues until Jan 28th. 2012. Click this link to check times the galleries are open and information on the other two concurrent shows. I enjoyed the work of book artist Rachael Ashe in the Mezzanine Gallery.
