Published in Ceramics Monthly, October 2011
"Harlan House is one of Canada’s doyens of ceramics who has, over the past four decades, established an international career and a reputation for excellence in craftsmanship, marrying both Eastern and Western traditions while building a seminal legacy of form and function. This fall, House displays a new body of work that might seem to many a 180-degree departure from his characteristic sublime/ traditional wares. House largely abandoned the wheel in favor of slip casting cheeky, if not satirical, take-offs of iconic corporate and political moguls such Colonel Sanders, Ronald McDonald, George Bush, and Stephen Harper. Given such tumultuous upset on an otherwise reliably consistent creative landscape, an inquiry was definitely in order: Who is the man behind the art, what moves him to create, and why has he seemingly embarked on such a startlingly non sequitur journey?... "
