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Ayumi Horie spent two days at Sheridan this week. I got to hang with her at the Gardiner and the ROM – we spent some time trying to find a pre-Columbian pot that she’d seen 15 years ago that she wanted to revisit, and headed for the bat cave. I learned a lot about “being” [...]
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I had my first one on one with Ying Yueh today – and we picked up right in the middle as if she’d been here all along. It was a massive yet challenging infusion of new ideas and ways of thinking. Her main message is that I need to find a way of solving the [...]
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I wanted to document the process of wax casting from a thrown vase, and carving in plaster as well as casting a base of rocks, and finishing with a variety of spray paints. The work is almost there – it needs its centre, which will be a small stainless steal ball that represents the dan [...]
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I had my mid term crit with Marc Egan and Gord Thompson today – just separating out technical innovation suggestions with conceptual sculpture development comments. Technique: 1. In order to resolve the “ends” of the bands reaching upward, try pulling the ends like handles to give a plastic, movement, clay look to the terminus. 2. [...]
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I’ve been having a lot of trouble settling on a clay body. The Sheba raku clay, which I thought would be my main project clay, is proving to be too brittle and crumbling virtually upon touch when dry. I am going to try one last ditch effort to wedge in some nylon fibre to see [...]
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Gord and I talked about the spherical objects, that I am introducing as the “seal of the soul” as possibly transient or variable. I like that idea – the fact that they could nestle in different places and don’t necessarily have to be centrally located in the sculpture. This adds another dimension to the individuality [...]
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I have finally joined the 21st century and figured out how to upload the video of my artist talk at the SAVAC Annual Opening. Check it out – it’s only 3 minutes: For those of you not in the know, and because Ali didn’t pan to my parents – my mom is Irish-American, and married [...]
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I spent a glorious two hours up close and personal with the Jun Kaneko exhibition at the Gardiner on June 27th prior to its public opening and filed my review online with Canadian Art. Check it out online at Jun Kaneko: Colossal in Clay. This is my debut piece with this publication.
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Ali and I spent a lovely weekend visiting my former Ceramics History prof, Winn Burke at his farm/home/studio in Markdale this weekend. Winn hosted a lovely potters’ gathering Saturday night with his new neighbour and fellow Sheridan teaching alum, Bruce Cochrane, and recent grad, Marcelina. Along with Jac and Buddy, the designer cats, we had [...]
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Here’s to the weather gods! This past May 24 weekend, my clay conspirator, Vanesa Trillia, and I decided to make the pilgrimage out to Marysville, Ontario (20 minutes east of Belleville) to visit Harlan House during his annual open-house studio sale. What a treat! I went on my pilgrimage with a notion that I might [...]
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Growing up in the Maritimes, my family spent many summers camping, and I spent many hours begging to stop to see one more artists clay studios. I still have a collection of 10 miniature pots that I collected from the ages of 5 to 12. Life has a way of unfolding in its own time, and it took me thirty years to realize that clay was my ultimate calling.
Three years ago, it hit me like a thunderbolt. Click here to read Heidi's Story. Two years ago I went to India for three months of intensive skill development at the Andretta Residency and in the spring of 2010 I began in earnest my new life as a creative artist. I am currently studying at Sheridan College.