Canadian Clay Symposium – Page 2 – Gillian McMillan

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R:evolution Canadian Clay Symposium 2017

What a busy time it has been lately in our local clay community! But now that many of my colleagues have taken themselves down to Portland for this year's NCECA Ceramic conference, and I try not to be too jealous of their adventures, I'll post a blog or two about my experience at our own Clay Symposium. I arrived at the Shadbolt Centre before 9am…

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March 23rd, 2017

Vancouver Art

Elementum: Form, Function & Feast

350 people attended Elementum: Form, Function and Feast, the 6th Triennial Canadian Clay Ceramic Symposium, held at Shadbolt Centre for the Arts on Saturday. With 13 presenters there was something for everybody, whether beginner or professional, wheel thrower, hand builder, sculptor, teacher, curator or writer. To be honest I saw it as a chance to catch up with potters I've met in over 40 years…

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March 25th, 2013

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.