CERAMICS IN FLUX

On Thursday evening three shows opened at PoMoArts, including TriCity Potters’ first group show since our last one was closed down in March of 2020. Today’s blog shows some of the artists in our current show ‘CERAMICS IN FLUX’, and a little on the two other shows. 

TCP board member Kay Bonathon thanked gallery manager Janice Cotter for her splendid work organising and displaying all our pieces and presented her with a book gift certificate.

Janice Cotter & Kay Bonathon

Ceramics in Flux 

Tri-City Potters

An exhibition of new works by members of the Tri-City Potters that reference the state of fluidity and constant change they’ve experienced in their lives in the past few years and links it to the use of ceramic flux that functions by promoting liquefaction in glazes.

Tri-City Potters Participating Artists:

Carlene Akester, Kay Bonathan, Emily Cheung, Ysabella Choung, Joyce Gillespie, Sue Griese, Corky Hartley, Myrta Hayes, Linda Lebrun, May Li, Elaina Liang, Gillian McMillan, Cathleen Mo, Maria Palotas, Nicole Powell, Rongrong Qin, Sharon Reay, Lori Rosner, Brigitta Schneiter, Grace Siu, Clive Tucker, Eliza Wang

 
Eliza Wang
Maria Palotas
Sue Griese
Ysabella Choung (photo taken the next day)
Clive Tucker
Clive's piece comes apart!
'Life in the Time of Covid'
Gillian McMillan
Life in the Time of Covid
I made this large ‘Pope’s Hat’ platter in May of 2020 when we were feeling most fenced-in by Covid lock-down. The plate form is a reference to 16th Century Italian Renaissance istoriato plates which were painted on maiolica, often depicting current life or telling tales, with the artist in the middle. In my version my glum face looks out of my kitchen window on a bucolic scene of my flowers, our house, a favourite woodpecker, the ready tea-pot and my husband relaxing with a book, BUT there is the fence. Our lives were, and still are, in flux. GM

There were too many people attending and we were enjoying catching up, so I returned the next morning to photograph the carefully displayed ceramics when it was quieter. I plan to share those photos in my next blog.

The other two shows really contrast with our ceramics, and are well worth a visit.

In the Ann Kitching gallery you will be amazed to see ‘wearable Art’, all made of metal by Tam Harrington.

Fashion, a Complex Relationship 

Tam Harrington

Harrington’s mission with this collection of metal wearable art and sculpture is to illustrate the complex relationship between fashion and women’s oppression, exploitation, and empowerment. She feels that the work exemplifies the bigger question that we need to keep asking; is fashion helping to empower women or to oppress them?

Fashion, a Complex Relationship Tam Harrington

In the Suncor Gallery you’ll find ultra realistic portraits of Samantha Harrison’s friends re-enacting characters from myths.

Recreations of Myth and Spirit 

Samantha Harrison

A series of oil paintings that seeks to recreate figures of mythological and religious origin as modern people. Harrison draws focus to the idea that mythological and spiritual figures are deeply connected to, and inspired by various aspects of the human condition, even the mundane.

Nigel as Mars (God of War) Samantha Harrison

These three shows will be on display until March 28th 2023. Our ceramics show has been timed to coincide with the March 25th Canadian Ceramics Symposium at Burnaby’s Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, when visitors from elsewhere may like to check what local clay folks are up to. Similarly, Fraser Valley Potters’ show will open at ARC in Maple Ridge next Saturday.

For details and times of Port Moody’s shows click here:

https://pomoarts.ca/gallery

Gillian McMillan

Gillian writes blogs about ceramics in and around Vancouver and sometimes talks about other Art, her garden, travels and family.

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  1. Liz Rhodes

    Love your Life in the Time of Covid plate. x

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