2006 Gallery Exhibitions

February:

GALLERY INVITATIONAL

Opening Reception: Saturday Feb 4, 2-
4pm

February 2 -27,

March:

Laura McKibbon

THE GARDEN / LE JARDIN

March 2 - April 3

April:

BC INA BOX

April 6 - May 1

May:

Sarah Belley, Katharine Ducker, and
Roxanne Gagnon

SKIN DEEP: DUALISM OF WEARABLE
ART

May 4 - May 29

June:

Tableware Exhibition and Sale
“DINNER PARTY”

June 1 - 26

July:

Geoff Searle

COLOURS IN FIRE

June 29 - July 31

August:

Gordon Hutchens
(tba)

August 3 - Sept 4

September:

Clive Tucker

A STING IN THE TAIL
September 7 - Oct 2

October:

Keith Lehman, Ron Robb and Jinny
Whitehead

CERAMIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

October 5 - 30

October-November:

IN THE PALM OF A HAND;

B.C. TO JAPAN TOURING EXHIBITION
November-December

(dates tba)

November:

Jay MacLennan

(tba)

November 2 - 27

December:

HOLIDAY EXHIBITION (various gallery
& guild artists)

All December.

Gallery Manager’s Report

The gallery is seeking an enthusiastic summer gallery assistant (weekend and vacation
coverage.) Send out an FYI to potential interested candidates you might know who are:
personable, have ceramic knowledge and are keen to further the goals of the Guild &
Gallery. Please contact gallery via phone or e-mail for complete job posting details.

We hope you join us at our next gallery opening of ceramic Jewelry & Sculpture. This
contemporary exhibition is part installation, part performance and thematically entirely
new for the gallery to showcase.

New addition to the June Exhibition schedule: “Dinner Party" tableware exhibition &
sale. Customer Appreciation Day is Saturday June 3: enjoy 25% off all pottery. A
chance to stock up with great savings!

Brenda Beaudoin

Skin Deep: Dualism Of Wearable Art
Gallery of BC Ceramics May 4 to 31 Opening reception: May 4, 6 to 8 p.m.

Take a stroll down Cartwright Street on Granville Island on the evening of Thursday 4th
May, and you can expect to see a number of live mannequins welcoming you through the
doors of the Gallery of BC Ceramics. Though not a normal sight at 6 p.m., Granville Island
is renowned as a central venue for entertainment, and specifically for its host of performance
artists in the form of unusual characters. But just what do live mannequins have to do with
ceramics, you may well ask? The answer is. . .

"Wearable Art.”.

The Gallery of BC Ceramics will proudly be
hosting the work of Sarah Douglas and Roxanne
Gagnon for their May exhibition. The two
Vancouver-based artists have collaborated on a
previously less familiar theme for ceramic work,
that of jewelry, to promote a body of work relat-
ing to fashion. This is a contemporary and
dynamic display of work by new artists. The
work includes necklaces, rings, wrist cuffs and
bracelets, at the heart of which is a belief in art
objects as social, accessible, functional state-
ments of personal identity, as well as personal
possessions. The concept surrounding the show
incorporates the idea that art needn't be restrict-
ed to the home. Performance artists will be

modeling the jewelry on the opening night out-
side the gallery, while others will be making themselves at home in the interior setting of the
exhibition space amid a lively atmosphere of music and people.

Also featured in the exhibition is sculpture by Roxanne Gagnon, which serves to illustrate an
alternative understanding of the concept of ‘wearable art’. Her pieces take on body forms and
illustrate how the surface of clay itself acts as a
skin on which to 'wear' the glaze, giving the
effect of clothing.

So, what better excuse do you have for spending
the first Thursday evening of May? Come and
hear the artists talk about the work in person.
Just don't confuse the live mannequins with the
real thing. And then leave with a handmade
piece of jewelry that will have EVERYONE ask-
ing you, "Where did you get that?"

Katharine Ducker, Curator

May 2006

Potters Guild of British Columbia Newsletter 3