EXHIBITIONS
Many lower mainland galleries will host ceramic based exhibitions to coincide with the symposium.
Please contact: info.canadianclay@gmail.com if you have exhibitions around the time of the symposium.
The ACT Arts Centre
11944 Haney Place
Maple Ridge, BC
Transformation – Fraser Valley Potters Guild juried show
March 4 - April 29, 2023
Opening reception: Saturday, March 4th, 2-4pm
theactmapleridge.org/act-gallery
Port Moody Arts Centre
2425 St. Johns Street
Port Moody, BC
IN FLUX
An exhibition of new works by members of the Tri-City Potters.
February 23 – March 28, 2023
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 23, 6-8pm
IN FLUX, a juried exhibition by the Tri-City Potters, references the state of fluidity and constant change we’ve experienced in our lives and activities and links it with the use of ceramic flux that functions by promoting liquefaction in glazes.
pomoarts.ca/exhibitions/ceramics-in-flux
susan Johnston, ccbc gallery window installation
Crafthouse
CCBC Gallery window
1386 Cartwright Street
Granville Island, Vancouver, BC
Susan Johnston
Here We Have No Lasting City
March 3 – April 1, 2023
Tuesday – Sunday: 10am – 5:30pm
craftcouncilbc.ca/shop-granville-island/
Within the framework of the Canadian Clay Symposium 2023, ceramics artist Susan Johnston presents her work at the CCBC window gallery. The three canopic jars in bird forms were previously presented in a group show by the Fraser Valley Potters Guild at Place Des Arts.
Susan Johnston is a ceramic artist currently working in stoneware clay producing sculptural and combination production work out of her studio in Crescent Beach, South Surrey. As a founding member of the new pottery studio at Crescent Park she shows and sells her work with a guild of 45 potters. Her work can be seen at Kizmit Gallery in Fort Langley and Excellent Frameworks in Duncan B.C. on Vancouver Island.
Susan taught art at the highschool level after earning a fine arts diploma from Langara, Bachelors degree in Art Education from UBC and a Ceramics certificate from Kwantlen University, Surrey Campus. It is her joy to work in a medium that has changed very little over time. She is inspired by the thought that I can express extraordinary ideas through an ordinary medium – clay!
Place des Arts
1120 Brunette Avenue
Coquitlam, BC
Vin Arora: Meltdown: The Second Wave
March 10 – May 4, 2023
Opening reception: Friday, March 31, 7pm - 9pm,
1120 Brunette Avenue, Coquitlam
Online: March 17 – May 4, 2023
Ceramics in the Link
The work in this show is comprised of a few older works and many new iterations of “Meltdown”. In early March 2020, a show of this theme was installed at Place des Arts. A few days after the exhibition was installed, the world shut down, and the work went largely unseen. The relevance of this theme, relating to aspects of mental health, are more relevant in the current context. My own relationship to that theme, and the works themselves is much more personally poignant.
The following is the statement, unedited, from the 2020 version of Meltdown:
Vin Arora is interested in the art that emerges from perceived failures. This body of work celebrates what can be cultivated, learned and harvested from these fertile soils. Beyond the reference to technique and formal aspects of the artwork, Meltdown investigates issues of mental health, societal value of productivity, sleep deprivation and “busyness”. The work also reflects and reframes behaviours and conditions such as anxiety, depression, substance abuse, hoarding and ADHD.
Where and how comfortably does a person with no diagnosis sit in relation to a blurry and translucent boundary? Where does spirituality enter the equation? How do we contain our thoughts? What is the shape of that container?
Mobile Contemporary Ceramics Gallery: FORM
Saturday, March 25, 2023, 9:00am - 5:00pm
A renovated 1959 Flying Cloud Airstream Trailer on site at the Shadbolt Centre.
Artists: Robin DuPont, Martin Tagseth, Katy Drijber, Dawn Candy, and Martina Lantin.
www.instagram.com/form_mobilegallery/
Potter's Guild of BC presents: Sur La Table
2023 Member Exhibition
Saturday, March 25 2023, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Room 200/201
6450 Deer Lake Avenue, Burnaby, BC
On March 25th 2023 the PGBC will present a one day pop up exhibition of plates called Sur La Table. All PGBC members are welcome to submit work. Click the link below for all the info and to submit your work.
Submission Info: https://form.jotform.com/223507391050044
Deer Lake Gallery
6584 Deer Lake Avenue
Burnaby, BC
Offbeat: Explorations in Clay
Contemporary ceramic practices broadening the context of visual culture.
March 25th - April 23rd
Opening Reception in support of STOKED!, Saturday, March 25th, 5:30pm-7:30pm
Artists: Genevieve Dionne, Robin DuPont, Heather Dahl, Linda Sormin, Cathy Terepocki, Hannah Watkins, Nathalie Paolinelli and Amelia Butcher
In alignment with Stoked!, the Canadian Clay Symposium taking place at the Shadbolt Centre on March 25th, the DLG is presenting an exhibition of works by artists and designers whose practices are not defined by traditional clay theories.
Offbeat invites us to consider sculptural forms that explore growth, consumption, decay and explore anthropology and cultural and decorative traditions. By stretching our concepts of ceramic and sculpture, collaboratively, this exciting groups’ works evolve compelling metaphors for our constantly changing, chaotic world.
Kate Metten Ceramics
Mitra Mahmoodie: Dancing in the Desert
March 23 - April 9, 2023
2408 Main Street, Vancouver, BC
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 23, 6:00 - 8:00pm
O-Five Rare Tea Bar
Wood Fired Pottery Exhibition
The show will last through the month of April as part of the Sakura Cherry Blossom Festival to celebrate spring and the coming out of the cherry blossoms around the city.
March 18 - April 23, 2023
2208 West 4th Avenue, Vancouver, BC
KPU Spruce Building Atrium
12666 72 Avenue
Surrey, BC
Past, Present and Future
March 18 - June 19, 2023
Opening Reception: March 18, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Presented by Fraser Valley Potters Guild & Alumni of Douglas and Kwantlen Ceramics
Josephine Lee
Brit Bachmann
Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Main Building
Deer Lake Artists-in-Residence Exhibit
March 14 - April 25, 2023
Shadbolt Centre for the Arts
6450 Deer Lake Avenue, Burnaby, BC
Josephine Lee and Brit Bachmann were two of the 2022 Deer Lake Artists-in-Residence. Their installations in the Galleria cases in the Main Building of the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts include work made during their residencies, and will run from March 14 – April 25.
CSA Space
Leavings
2414 Main Street, Vancouver, BC
Opening: March 23, 2023, 6pm - 9pm
March 23 - May 7th, 2023
Artists: Kristine Aguilar, Amelia Butcher, Chrystalation, Angela Hopkins, Heather Lippold, Shaun Mallonga and Tony Wilson
A kiln is a provisory space where objects and their makers are temporarily held, communing, until the firing is over and the heat disperses, and along with it the artifacts of that transitory time, marked forever by their meeting. The makers in this exhibition met and worked together in a perishable place, one that is gone now, and are appreciative of the opportunity to reunite these sibling objects alongside Christopher Brayshaw’s photographs documenting the dispersal. With love and gratitude to Don Hutchinson.
Gallery Access: via Pulp Fiction Books (see staff). Gallery hours are the same as the bookstore.
Monday - Saturday 10am-7pm, Sunday, 11am-7pm. Tel: 604-876-4311 pulpbook@gmail.com
Monte Clark
Moonage Daydream
Gailan Ngan
March 18 - April 15, 2023
53 Dunlevy Avenue
Vancouver, BC
