Gallery of BC Ceramics News The Gallery and Guild office, boardroom and library has a new ring to it! If you arrive before or after our hours of operation, we now have a doorbell! No more pounding or hollering if there is a meeting up- stairs or if you are dropping something off early in the morning! Thanks to Lewis Kennet for getting this done! Elaine Brewer-White is our exhibiting artist for March. ‘Chairmen of the Bored’ promises to be intriguing and diverse. She explores our human relationship with the chair — physical and otherwise. She explores how we use chairs to recline in, hide, think and even balance on, Playing with scale, and including a full size ceramic chair, Elaine challenges the functional notion of chairs with her sculptural sensi- bilities. Elaine's show opens March 4" and runs until March 29° This month the Gallery of BC Ceramics will be featuring the diverse ceramic works of the workshop presenters of the Canadian Clay Sym- posium. The artists are local, national and international, and it is a taste of the fine work that they will be demonstrating on March 20° at the Shadbolt Center for the Arts. The artists are: Hank Murrow, Jane Hamlyn, Keith Rice-Jones, Debra Sloan, Linda Christianson, Tam Irving, Walter Ostrom, Anne Hirondelle and Ichizo Yamashita. They will all have work on display and for sale from March 4-20". The opening for this show is on Thursday March 18", from 4pm- 8pm, before and after Anne Hirondelle’s free evening lecture. Her slide show will be from 5:30-6:30 at Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design, Room 328 in the South Building. Join us for a sneak peak and greet some of the artists that will be demonstrating at the Canadaian Clay Symposium! Sheryl Wilson, who worked at the Gallery for years, is now headed into the interior of BC to the Sorrento area. She will be missed. by fellow staff and. by the many artists that enjoyed her contributions, especially when she held the position of Exhibition Co-ordinator. We wish her all the best in her future endeavors and thank her for all of her gracious contributions to the gallery over the years. Want to be an ‘emerging artist’ in 2004? Every month, we give space for non-juried members to sell their work in a small section of the gallery. If you would like to sign up, please let the gallery staff know. Our hours of operation are 10-6 daily now March 1* through Decem- ber 31. We had a good 10% off sale this past January. As a member, you get 10% off all of your purchases all year round. Come on in and get inspired! ‘Tamara Ruge, Gallery Manager Note: The exhibition for September by Mary Fox will be entitled What Satisfies Me’. The May exhibition for the Asian Heritage month will also include artist Jung-Hong Kim. Our apologies as his name was inadvertently omitted in past newsletters. containment. occurring materials. strikes him. formed elements. tural ware. Keith Rice-Jones Canadian Clay Symposium Presenters Show Most of us tend to be relatively modest about our own work: it’s just what we do and we don’t often see ourselves or our work as y J : particularly remarkable. So to find myself ‘as one of the presenters in such august company is somewhat encouraging. The symposium does such a great job of bringing together such a rich, diverse groups of talenttogether and the exhibition is an opportunity to see representative work from this years presenters. Linda Christianson uses a treadle wheel and woodfires contemporary thrown and altered functional dishes. Jane Hamlyn specializes in salt glazed stoneware.Her work is thrown and handbuilt,often highly decorated. Anne Hirondelle draws on the traditional vessel form and sees her sculptural pieces as a personal expression and metaphor for Tam Irving sees himself as a ‘traditionalist reinterpreting old themes,’ He is particularly well known for glazes incorporating naturally Debra Sloan works using the figurative as a mode of expression. Walter Ostrom as Head of Ceramics at NASCAD has established the new tradition of Earthenware in North America. Hank Murrow loves to create tools almost as much as the pots that flow from his interesting kiln, and gets excited when a metaphore Keith Rice-Jones, hey that’s me, constructs large architectural forms often with references to ritual objects, using slabs and pre- Ichizo Yamashita is an ultra modern Japanese traditionalist. Using Kutani porcelain, he makes highly decorated functional sculp- Please note that the reception for the show is on Thursday March 18" at 5.30 pm which is a bit earlier than usual as Anne Hirondelle will be giving an illustrated talk at 7.00 pm at ECIAD. 4 Potters Guild of British Columbia Newsletter March 2004