BC-Tajimi and TransFormations: Selecting the Work

Having simply opened the submissions
and. numbered the slides for BC-Tajimi I
then had the honour of being a fly on the
wall as I projected the images for the two
jurors, Tam Irving and Sally Michener.
Both of them had been approached by the
50th committee and invited to include a
piece each in this show in lieu of usual
juror’s fees and asked to select another 48
pieces.

Tam and Sally brought their different per-
spectives and their shared wealth of
knowledge and experience from their long
and illustrious international careers and it
was fascinating to be privy to their discus-
sions and decisions, as they worked. back-
wards and forwards through the num-
bered (no names) images. I of course
knew the names and was impressed with
their professional impartiality!

A similar process of viewing numbered,

no-name images was used by the jurors
for TransFormations and I understand it
was an even bigger job for them with
more pieces and a relatively small exhibi-
tion space at Burnaby Art Gallery.

The jurors for this show were Dr. Carol
Mayer, Curator and Head of Ceramics at
the Museum of Anthropology, Darrin
Martens, Curator/Director of Burnaby Art
Gallery and Hiro Urakami, collector and
the first Gallery of BC Ceramics Manager
after having run his own House of
Ceramics Gallery. Our thanks to them as
they all donated their services towards the
exhibition.

A huge thank you to all who made the
effort and took the not inconsiderable
time to submit entries for both exhibi-
tions. It’s always disappointing when you
don’t get selected (you should see my file
of rejections!) but you have to think of

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the next one and the next set of jurors
who bring a slightly different bias to their
process.

The BC- Tajimi show will open in Japan
on August the 13th and run for a month.
As I will be working in Seto, the next
town, I will be able to represent the Guild
at the opening. There will be a return
exhibition here in 2006 when we will all
have an opportunity to see the work of 50
‘Tajimi potters.

Our 50th “flagship” show,
TransFormations, will be at Burnaby Art
Gallery, August 9th to Sept 10th with an
opening reception Aug 10th, 5:00 - 8:00
pm. Don’t forget that even if you didn’t
get a pot selected for the show, all potters
will be part of the show in the source

books.
Keith Rice-Jones

The 50/10

Masters Series #3
Well! Its come and gone! Too bad!

The Arrowsmith Potters Guild was
proud to team up with our mother

guild, The Potters Guild of B.C., to

present our Masters Series #3.
It couldn't have been better!

From the time we opened the doors of
our new Parksville Community Centre
the smiles just kept coming. Every per-
son was so into having a great time it
was totally infectious and “nary a nega-
tive word was spoke”.

We are sure you all will agree that we
must single out Al Bubnys, Ann Rusch,
Jacie Herbison and Jane Murray-Smith
for the incredible job they did to organ-
ize a “big show” that went off without a
hitch. (Al revealed that Ann did an
unbelievable job of putting everything
down on paper for him to follow. Well
done, Ann!) There were so many others
of our Arrowsmith Potters Guild who
helped in so many ways and we appreci-
ate the work of every single one.

To say we had an eclectic mix of presen-
ters would be to state the obvious. The

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June 2005