preliminary selection may be advisable. We recommend that initially
only slides be requested from applicants. Qualifying entrants could
then be notified to send a specific number of works for final jurying.

(5) We feel that the award system is arbitrary and meaningless. In
our opinion the moneys would be better applied towards exhibition costs
and the printing of good catalogues with photographs of all works.

Tam Irving.

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CERAMICS DISPLAY DISAPPOINTING, By Charlotte Townsend.
Ceramics '69, now at the Vancouver Art Gallery, is a disappointment.

It is the result of two years of planning by the gallery in conjunction
with the B.C. Potters' Guild and the Canadian Guild of Potters, anda
selection from 500 works from across Canada by a three-man jury.

Members of the jury were Norah McCullough, for some years the
"Canadian delegate to the World Crafts Council, Warren MacKenzie,
a well-known American ceramist, and Bruno Freschi, a practising
- architect who teaches design at UBC.

The total entry was not of the greatest distinction, but the display can
be described as safe and nostalgic for the styles of 10 and 20 years
ago.

Included are a few very good pots, a lot of cautious derivations, and
a few examples of the use of clay which needed ingenuity to be so

unpleasant.

Among the good things: Tam Irving's stoneware planter, solid and
undecorated, shows that it is proportioning that prevents such a
piece from being a crude lump. There are two fine porcelain pots by
Mick Henry, and a heavy white jug with a nicely contrasted dark

inside.

Wayne Ngan's two tea bowls are beautiful, if unadventurous, examples
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