After attending the presentation by five Taiwanese clay artists at Shadbolt Centre some weeks ago now, I was determined to find JigSpace Gallery in Vancouver to see more of their unusual work. On the day before the show ended Alan and I found the gallery at the south end of Laurel street. https://www.jigspace.ca Yumeng of JigArt kindly emailed me a pdf of the artists' statements so…
On Saturday May 23rd 'Where Form Meets the Boundless' opened at JigSpace Gallery in Vancouver. Five well-known clay artists from Taiwan had travelled here with incredible work and joined four local ceramicists in this show. After the opening their Canadian hosts brought them to Burnaby's Shadbolt Centre for a free public presentation by the five. Burnaby resident, our own Amy Li Chuan Chang, told me…
TriCity Potters' show opened at Place des Arts in early April but you can still see the work of members until May 21st. Of course I took photos and have shown them to members in our facebook page, but for the record I'll post them here too. I think I found all the selected work. They're displayed in acrylic cases on plinths which will have…
Deer Lake Art Gallery is just a few steps away from the Shadbolt Centre and the sun was shining so I left the Ceramic Symposium for half an hour to see Fraser Valley Potters Guild's Annual Juried Show & Sale. Amy Gogarty was volunteering to sit the show that day. I see that the show actually closed today. It was well worth the visit. I…
The latest Canadian Clay Symposium took place at the Shadbolt Centre, as usual, on March 21st, and it's taken this long for me to sort my photos and put together my experience of a super weekend. On the Friday evening Jesse Birch of Nanaimo AG gave the keynote speech at the Emily Carr U campus. He spoke about ways of sharing ceramic collections with gallery…