Tea at My Table - Clive Tucker
June 17 - July 6, 2000
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 17 2-4pm

Artist Statement:

| have always appreciated great works of poetry. Verses
like,

Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:

All mimsy were the borograves,

and the mome raths cutgrabe.
‘Verse One of “The Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carrod
fram Avice io Hardentand!

| never realised how much nonsense verse and English tradition shaped my perceptions of art until | began
making these teapots.

| fell into the proverbial rabbit hole when | started at Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design in third year with na
prior art school experience. | had been an apprentice ta potter Latte Glob in Scotland in 1993. Lotte taught
me the best and quickest ways to make pots. | embraced this point of view entirely and threw and threw and
threw with little pause for design, decoration or expression, | made a few large sculptural pots but was very
much dedicated to the purity of throwing as an end in itself,

During my time at Emily Carr, | came to the conclusion that art can be terribly serious. So | started ta look for
something | could have fun with. | came across some ald slip casting moulds. After all my classical training

{ i.e.“how could it be real pottery it it came out of a mould?") and two years of art school, | realised the limits
| had previously worked to were artificial. Art, | realised should be play as much as anything.

| played with the castings like a child with a new toy, sticking the pieces together depending on how | felt at
the time. | made a lot of work | wasn’t happy with, Eventually, | returned to a form | find a joy to make and
part of my tradition - the teapot. It made sense - or nonsense - for me to incorporate my new perception of
play by integrating the moulds with a traditional aspect of my history, and ceramic history, the teapot.

Upcoming Exhibitions:

Keith Lehman July 827, 2000
Keith Rice-lones July 29—August 31, 2000
Vincent Massey September 2—Oct. 5, 2000

Gallery of BC Ceramics - New exhibition space is in front of the large garage door.