CURRICULUM VITAE
Amy Gogarty
913 East 11th Ave.
Vancouver, BC V5T 2E8
[email protected]
website: https://amygogarty.weebly.com
Born: Abington, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. 1953
Resident: Canada since 1973
Citizenship:Canadian (since 1985)
Education
1970 - 1971 Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
1976 - 1980 Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Alberta
Honours Diploma (Painting)
1986 - 1987 Undergraduate Classes, University of Calgary
1987 - 1989 MFA (Painting), University of Calgary
Exhibitions (Painting): Solo (since 1989)
Third Tableau (MFA Exhibition, Nickle Arts Museum) 1989
Towards a Translation of Verwindung. Virginia 1992
Christopher Galleries, Calgary.
Imperfections. Stride Gallery, Calgary 1993
. . . Swan, & Plenty . . . Truck Gallery, Calgary 1997
l’arbre de Diderot, Nickle Arts Museum (U. of Calgary) 1999
Selected Group Exhibitions (Painting) (since 1990):
Faculty Exhibitions, Alberta College of Art & Design 1990 - 2005
Nature as Artifact, Edmonton Art Gallery 1992
Al2 O3 SIO2 2H2 O, collaboration with Mireille Perron 1993
Literary Allusions, Southern Alberta Art Gallery Extension 1994-96
Representations of Nature, New Gallery, Calgary 1994
Glenbow Art Lotto, Glenbow Museum 1995
Spring for the Arts, Banff Centre Benefit, Calgary 1996
A Visual Interlude, Triangle Gallery, Calgary 1996
Six Degrees of Separation, Prairie Art Gallery, Grand Prairie AB 1998
Montréal/Calgary Exchange Show CIRCA (Montréal) 1998
Silver, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary 2000
Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art 2000 (Calgary/Edmonton) 2000
Dreamy: Landscapes and Simulations, CIMA (Calgary) 2001
100 Words Exactly, The New Gallery (Calgary) 2001
SPREAD, Artcity exhibition (Calgary) 2003
Principle/Element (Red Deer College) 2004
Hand Read Medicine Hat Museum and Art Gallery and Library 2004
Made in Calgary: The 1990s, Contemporary Calgary 2014
The World We’re Living In, Nickle Art Gallery, Calgary 2022
Exhibitions (Ceramics)
Work exhibited and sold in gallery and member shows, Gallery of BC Ceramics, Vancouver, 2014 until its closing in 2018.
Botanically Inspired. CCBC Juried exhibition, Van Dusen Gardens, October, 2015.
Ceramics: Art + Function, group show, Phoenix Gallery, Vancouver, November, 2015.
Carriers, three-person exhibition, CSA Space, Vancouver, November-December, 2017.
Clay Explorations 2018, juried exhibition, Port Moody Arts Centre, June 7-July 5, 2018.
Portraits, juried exhibition, Alberta Craft Council Feature Gallery, Edmonton, AB, January 26 - April 27, 2019.
Portraits, juried exhibition, Alberta Craft Council, Calgary, AB, June 1 - Aug 24, 2019.
Growth, juried exhibition, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Surrey, BC,May, 2019.
Ceramic Botanica, juried exhibition, ACT Gallery, Maple Ridge, BC, June 15 – July 27, 2019.
Ensemble, juried exhibition, ACT Gallery, Maple Ridge, BC, November 2 – December 19, 2019.
Personal and Material Geographies (CCBC juried exhibition, multiple venues), Italian Cultural Centre, Vancouver, 2020.
Confined, juried group show, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, ON, January – May, 2022.
All Consuming, solo exhibition, Craft Council of BC, June 16 – August 4, 2022.
Beginning’s End, group exhibition, Langley Centennial Museum, Langley, BC, June 7 – September 30, 2022.
Of the Earth, juried FVPG exhibition, Place des Arts, Coquitlam, BC, Sept. 9 – Nov. 3, 2022. Live and Online.
Ornament and Crime, Alberta Craft Council Edmonton April 8 0 July 22, 2023; Calgary, March 30-June 22, 2024.
Between Things, curated group exhibition, Art Gallery of Alberta, September 2, 2023-March 3, 2024.
Reviews/Essays/Interviews (since 1997):
“. . . Swan, & Plenty: Mimicry as an Exercise in Spatial Disturbance,” essay for exhibition, Mireille Perron, 1997.
1998 Montréal/Calgary Exchange, essay for exhibition, Dawn Auvigne, Diana Sherlock et al., 1998.
l’arbre de Diderot, essay for exhibition, Diana Sherlock, 1999.
Edmonton Art Gallery, The Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art 2000, Curators Catherine Crowston and Allan Harding MacKay, June 23-August 27, 2000 and September 15-October 15, 2000.
Dreamy, catalogue essay to accompany exhibition for Art City 2001, curated by Robin Arseneault, September, 2001.
"Women with a Past," Mireille Perron, Artichoke vol 14 no. 3 (Fall/Winter 2002): 22-27.
Spread, brochure to accompany exhibition for Art City 2003, September 2003.
Interview with Curator, Joanne Marion, for Hand/Read. CKUA Radio Arts Beat September 28, 2004.
Interview with Jasmine Hynes for Personal and Material Geographies, Craft Council of BC, September 11, 2020.
Interview/Artist Talk, All Consuming, Craft Council of BC, June, 2022. Online https://craftcouncilbc.ca/all-consuming/
“Amy Gogarty: Ceramic sculptures examine consumption, waste and global trade,” Bettina Matzkunh, Galleries West, July 5, 2022. Online: https://www.gallerieswest.ca/magazine/stories/amy-gogarty/
Published Writings (selected)
“Mother,” catalogue essay for exhibition by Alan Dunning, Stride Gallery, 1990
“Material,” catalogue essay for exhibition of five artists who work in craft materials, The New Gallery, 1990.
“Nearness and Distance,” review of exhibition at Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta, C Magazine, Winter, 1991, 46-48. Substantially revised version included in Territories of Difference (1993), ed. Renee Baert.
“Daphne, or the Commemorative Works of Elizabeth LeMoine,” Texts 5 (Spring 1991): 30-36.
“Garry Williams,” review of exhibition at Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art, C Magazine, 1991, reprinted in Ceramics: Art and Perception (Australia), February 1992.
“Mireille Perron and Paul Woodrow,” C Magazine, Fall 1992, 57-58. Reprinted in Anecdotal Waters, 1997.
“Five Snapshots-in-Progress of John Chalke,” American Ceramics 10:3 (Winter 1993): 34-41.
“Clay Alternatives,” (on Walter May) contact 92 (Spring 1993): 29-31.
“Reconsidering Function,” (review of ceramics symposium) contact 95 (winter 1993/94): 16-22.
“Gold Standard: Garry Williams,” catalogue essay for Clay Between My Fingers, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, 1994.
“Site, Time Viewer, Movement,” compilation based on NCECA conference presentation with Mireille Perron, Katherine Ross and Ildiko Repasi, NCECA Journal 1994/95, 13-17.
“Stuart Parker: Pattern and Predator,” essay for interactive disk catalogue designed by Alan Dunning for exhibition by Parker at Truck Gallery April 22-May 21, 1994; catalogue 1995.
“Weaving, Writing, Movement, Speech: Jane Kidd’s figured Tapestries,” catalogue essay for Journey: Jane Kidd Ten Years, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, February, 1995. Reprinted in International Tapestry Journal 2.1 (Spring 1996).
“Laura Vickerson: ‘Studies of Nature,’” minifeature, C Magazine 45 (Spring 1995).
“Time and Matter: Laura Vickerson’s Recent Installations,” article, Artichoke, Summer 1995.
“Lesley Finlayson: The Alaska Series,” brochure for exhibition, April, 1995.
“Pet Project,” catalogue essay for Pam Bulla, “On the Wall/Off the Wall” at Stride Gallery, June, 1995.
“Ground/Connection,” Catalogue essay for six artists working from ceramics traditions, Winnipeg, 1995. Reprinted in NCECA Journal 16 (1995):103-105 and in Ceramics: Art and Perception 26 (1996): 46-52.
“Why be Critical?” Review/Commentary, contact 102 (Autumn 1995):11-17.
Velvet: an Essay. Catalogue essay, Laura Vickerson at Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary, December, 1995.
“Kathryn Finnerty: A Studio Visit,” contact 104 (Spring 1996): 16-19.
“Margaret May: Mind’s Eye,” Artichoke 8.2 (Summer 1996)
“Aesthetics and Race: More Fixings for the Brew,” critical essay, Artichoke, Fall/Winter, 1996.
“TRIAD,” catalogue essay, Sandra Vida, exhibition at Banff Centre and elsewhere, December 1996.
Listener and other texts (artist book, edition of 75, with Elizabeth LeMoine), Truck Gallery, 1997.
“Elizabeth LeMoine: Stride Gallery,” Review, C Magazine 52 (Feb-April 1997): 40.
“International Ceramics Symposium,” Review, Contact 111 (winter 97/98): 22-26.
“Jeannie Mah: Ouvrez les Guillemets,” catalogue essay for exhibition at Dunlop Art Gallery, 1998.
“Jennifer Gordon: The Sky is Falling,” catalogue essay for exhibition at Southern Alberta Art Gallery, 1999.
“Le plaisir de mal tourner les choses/The pleasures of unruliness,” (with Mireille Perron), 1999.
Kenneth Doren's Monarchy, Suite for Birth," catalogue essay, Truck Gallery, Calgary, May 2000.
"Seeing Jeff," catalogue essay for Jeff Viner, December, 2000.
"Axis Mundi," catalogue essay for Roxanne Dunning, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary, January 2001.
"Journey," catalogue essay on Jane Kidd to be reprinted in Craft Perception and Practice: a Canadian Discourse, upcoming
"Scatological Remains of the Day," brochure essay, Mariko Paterson at Stride Gallery, June, 2001.
"Cineramics," Review, Jeannie Mah and Greg Payce at the Art Gallery of Calgary, The Craft Factor, (fall 2001).
"Beneath the Skin," Review, Ruth Chambers at the Art Gallery of Calgary, The Craft Factor, (fall 2001).
"Cineramics," Review, Jeannie Mah and Greg Payce (expanded essay), Ceramics: Art and Perception (no. 46/2001: 72-79)
"Le Plaisir de Mal Tourner les Choses/The Pleasure of Unruliness: Interdisciplinarity, Transversal Epistemologies and a few Selected Chimeras/Artworks." (with Mireille Perron). In Creative Confusions: Interdisciplinary Practices in Contemporary Art, eds. Lynn Hughes and Marie-Josée Lafortune, Montreal: Optica, 2001, 129-142.
"Infundibular," brochure essay for Fleur Schell, Stride Gallery April/4, 2002. Reprinted Pottery in Australia 2003.
"Louise Perrone's Museum." Review of Exhibition, Artichoke Special Issue on Craft, vol 14 no.4 (2002): 34-37.
"General Morphologie," catalogue essay for Clint Wilson, SNAP Gallery, Edmonton, August 1-29, 2002.
“Narrating Craft” talk for 2002 UAAC panel “Craft in the Expanded Field.” Calgary, October, 2002.
"Lubberland II," catalogue essay, Luanne Martineau, Medicine Hat Museum and Art Gallery, November 2002.
"Rethinking Art Ceramics History," report of NCECA conference presentation NCECA Journal 2002.
“Mobile Structures: Ceramics and Architecture in Canada” presented in Skaelskor, Denmark, August, 2003.
"Jane Kidd: Disciplinarity and the Reparative Impulse." (catalogue essay for exhibition at Stride Gallery, September, 2003.) Reprinted in Textile: A Journal of Cloth and Culture (Vol. 2 no.2, 2004).
"Dee Fontans: Performing Ornament, " (feature article), Metalsmith vol. 24 no. 2 (Spring 2004): 20-29.
human/nature, catalogue essay for traveling exhibition (Shanghai, Hong Kong, Edmonton, Saskatoon) 2005.
"Missy McCormick: “Waiting Place” (review essay) Ceramics Art & Perception 55 (2004): 30-33.
“Observations: Time and Space,” catalogue essay on Dan Gordon, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, February 2005
“Trans-Sexing (Or is it Cross-Dressing?) the Decorative: Some Thoughts on Historical Categories in Western Aesthetic Discourse,” Presentation for MAWA, Winnipeg, 2005.
“Provenance,” brochure essay for Anu Guha-Thakurta, The New Gallery, April 2005.
“January 2005: One Month of Decoration and Ornament,” (review/feature) Artichoke vol 17 no. 2 (summer 2005): 12-15.
“New craft in old spaces: artist-designed rooms at the Gladstone Hotel,” chapter in book Craft, Space and Interior Design, 1855-2005, eds. Janice Helland and Sandra Alfoldy, Ashgate, 2008.
“Yuichiro Komatsu: spatial juncture,” Ceramics Art & Perception 66 (2006): 25-29.
Review essay, Contemporary Canadian Ceramics, online exhibition review, Galleries West, July 2006.
Contemporary Canadian Ceramics, catalogue essay for exhibition, Esplanade Art Gallery, Medicine Hat, AB, 2006.
Thrive By, brochure essay for installation by Janet Morton, Richmond Art Gallery, summer 2006.
“‘A Bell Rings Out’--Recollection, Architecture and Ceramics at the End of Modernity,” Catalogue essay for Mobile Structures, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, January-May, 2007.
Bill Rennie: Where I was Brought Up: 6949 Harris Road, On-line essay, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC, 2007.
Online: Bill Rennie: Where I Was Brought Up Exhibit Brochure (surrey.ca)
“Maternal Ambivalence and Mother-craft: Suzanne Franks’ Smother”, catalogue essay, Nickle Arts Museum, 2007.
“Utopic Impulses: The Place of Craft in Contemporary Culture.” Canadian Crafts Federation “Year of Craft.”
“Remediating Craft,” in Utopic Impulses: Contemporary Ceramics Practice 91-110, (Ronsdale Press: 2007).
“Relational Ceramics.” Cahiers metiers d'art/Craft Journal vol.1/2 (Winter 2008): 51-70 (bilingual).
“Wendy Toogood: A Nakusp Narrative.” Stride Gallery, Calgary, AB, 2008 (brochure essay). On-line.
“Bettina Matzkuhn: The Magic Quilt.” On-line essay, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey BC, 2008. Online: Bettina Matzkuhn: The Magic Quilt Exhibit Brochure (surrey.ca)
“Judy Chartrand: If This is What it Means . . .” On-line essay, Surrey Art Gallery, 2008. Online: Judy Chartrand: Civilized Exhibit Brochure (surrey.ca)
“Laura Vickerson: Seeing Through.” Commissioned essay, Truck Gallery, Calgary AB, 2008.
“Paul Scott’s Confected Landscapes and Contemporary Vignettes,” Ceramics Art & Perception, no. 75 (2009): 51-56.
Reprinted in eds Andrew Livingstone and Kevin Petrie, The Ceramics Reader (London: Bloomsbury, 2017)
“The Start of Something Big: The Medalta International Artist-in-Residence Program,” Ceramics Technical 29 (2009):43-9.
"Ceramics, Dissolution and Weak Thought: Towards a New Understanding of Practice," Cahiers métiers d’art-Craft Journal vol. 3/2 (Spring 2010): 7-24 (bilingual).
Motion Captured/Motion Denied, brochure essay, Jody Greenman-Barber and Zane Wilcox, travelling exhibition, 2010.
“Truth and Consequences: Ceramic Shards, Autobiographical Anecdotes and the Shape of Judgment,” presentation in panel, “The Shape of Judgment, ” Critical Santa Fe, organized by NCECA, Santa Fe, NM, October 27-30, 2010.
“BAM and the Clay Throwdown!” PGBC Newsletter November, 2010. online 2010_9_novPGBCNewsletter.pdf (bcpotters.com)
Catalogue entries, “Beyond the Vessel,” Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, Diane Charbonneau curator, 2010.
Keith Rice-Jones, Size Matters (review of exhibition) Cahiers métiers d’art/Craft Journal 4.2 (Spring 2011) .
“The Doris Shadbolt Pottery Collection.” Review of exhibition, Ceramics Art & Perception, 2011.
“Greg Payce: Illusion, Remediation, and the Pluriverse,” catalogue essay for exhibition, Gardiner Museum, 2012.
“Eliza Au: The Beauty of Order,” Ceramics Monthly (March 2012): 36-41 (feature article).
“Elegant Disorder: Perspectives on Porcelain,” review of exhibition, Satellite Gallery, PGBC Newsletter, June, 2012.Online 2012_5_junPGBCNewsletter.pdf (bcpotters.com)
“Tactile Desires: The Work of Jack Sures,” catalogue review, Mackenzie Art Gallery, PGBC Newsletter July/Aug, 2012. Online 2012_6_julaugPGBCNewsletter.pdf (bcpotters.com)
“TableSpace: A Framework for Contemporary Ceramics,” review of catalogue, Alfred, NY, PGBC Newsletter Sept. 2012.Online 2012_7_sepPGBCNewsletter.pdf (bcpotters.com)
“Back to the Land: Ceramics from Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands 1970 – 1985,” PGBC Newsletter, Nov. 2012. Online 2012_9_novPGBCNewsletter.pdf (bcpotters.com)
“Pleased to Meet You: Introductions by Gwyn Hanssen Pigott,” UBC MOA gallery, PGBC Newsletter, December 2012.
“Joanne Circle: Felt Translation,” review of exhibition, Craft House Gallery, Vancouver, Studio 8.1 (2013): 6
“Eliza Au and Ying-Yueh Chuang: Variations on Symmetry” (catalogue essay for travelling exhibition) 2013.
“A bit of Clay on the Skin,” review, Gardiner Museum, Toronto, PGBC Newsletter, July/August, 2013. Online 2013_6_julyaugPGBCNewsletter.pdf (bcpotters.com)
“Sally Michener: Back to the Future,” PGBC Newsletter, Sept, 2023. 2013_8_octPGBCNewsletter.pdf (bcpotters.com)
“New Zealand’s 2013 Portage Ceramic Awards,” feature article, PGBC Newsletter, December/January 2013/14. Portage_Award_Dec_Jan_2013_2014 PGBC Newsletter.pdf
“Majestueuse fragilité: Thérèse Chabot,” (review) Cahiers métiers d’art/Craft Journal vo. 7 no 1 (Winter 2014).
“John Chalke, 1940 – 2014,” PGBC Newsletter, May, 2014. Online 2014_4_mayPGBCNewsletter.pdf (bcpotters.com)
“Three Senior Québec Ceramic Artists and their Studios,” PGBC Newsletter, December, 2014. Quebec_artists_December_2014_PGBC newsletter.pdf
“An Interview with Gilbert Poissant: Forty Years of Practice” Cahiers métiers d’art/Craft Journal vo 7 no 2 (Winter 2015).
“The exact beauty of a movement: Steven Heinemann’s Playa,” 30 Objects 30 Insights, Gardiner Museum, 2014.
“Tony Bloom’s Landbuoys: Time, Space and the Instant of Actuality” catalogue essay, Art Gallery of Grande Prairie, 2014.
“Curious: Jane Kidd,” brochure for exhibition, Craft Council of BC, 2015.
A Discerning Eye: The Walter C. Koerner Collection of European Ceramics, book review, PGBC Newsletter, March, 2015.Online 2015_2_marPGBCNewsletter.pdf (bcpotters.com)
“Riff: Jackie Frioud and Sam Knopp at the Gallery of BC Ceramics,” review, PGBC Newsletter, July/August, 2015.Online 2015_6_julaugPGBCNewsletter.pdf (bcpotters.com)
“John Chalke: The straight path to the studio from the house is necessarily most serpentine some days” catalogue essay for exhibition Surface Tension, Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, 2015.
“Gathie Falk: The Things in my Head,” review of exhibition, Equinox Gallery, PGBC Newsletter, December 1, 2015.
“Louise Perrone and Jan Smith: Jewelry Dialogue: On and Off the Body,” review, CCBC website, September, 2016.
“Gilbert Poissant: Fidele à sa propre démarche,” chapter in monograph Gilbert Poissant, Plein Sud, Montreal, 2016.
“Judy Chartrand: What a Wonderful Life,” review of exhibition Bill Reid Gallery, PGBC Newsletter, Dec/Jan 2016/2017. Online December_2016 newsletter.pdf
“A Personal Reminiscence,” in Relational Learning: ACAD Ceramics Visiting Artists, ACAD Ceramics, 2017.
“Post-Natural History and the World Upside-Down: Jane Kidd’s Curious, in Jane Kidd: Curious, Kelowna Art Gallery, 2017.
“Gailan Ngan: Moonlighting Papel,” review of exhibition, Monte Clark Gallery, PGBC Newsletter, July/August, 2017.
“Contemporary Craft and the Ethic of Sustainability,” in Canadian Craft Biennial, Art Gallery of Burlington, 2017.
“Canadian Craft Biennial: Can Craft? Craft Can!” Review of Exhibition, Digital Galleries West, 8 October, 2017.
“Mary Daniel and Debra Sloan: Stepping Out: Encounters on the Way,” exhibition review, PGBC Newsletter, Nov. 2017.
“True Nordic: How Scandinavia Influenced Design in Canada,” Review of Exhibition, Digital Galleries West, 18 Dec., 2017.
“Triniruth Bautista: Clay and Light,” CCBC website, March, 2018.
“Cut Weave Throw Print” (review of exhibition), Galleries West, 19 September, 2018, online.
“Anatomy of a Glass Menagerie: Altaglass” (review of Mireille Perron), Galleries West, 15 February, 2019, online.
“Ancient Women in Textile: The Jacquard Weaving of Ruth Scheuing,” Galleries West, 23 May, 2019, online.
“Four Revolutionary Moves,” (with Mireille Perron), Studio:Craft and Design in Canada,14/1 (Spring/Summer, 2019).
‘”Angela Teng: Up a Lemon Tree,” (review of exhibition), Galleries West, 7 October, 2019, online.
“Monsoon” (review of exhibition by Katie Ohe et al), Galleries West, 20 October, 2019, online.
“Malleable: Changing Notions of Women, Gender and Relationships,” review, PGBC Newsletter, November 1, 2019.
“Playing with Fire” (review of exhibition of 11 BC ceramists), Galleries West, 14 January, 2020, online.
“Charmian Johnson: 1939-2020,” online post, PGBC Newsletter, August, 2020.
“Theatre of the Domestic: The Works of Martina Lantin and Zimra Beiner,” with Mireille Perron, Studio Potter, Sept. 2020.
“Eliza Au: Deep Ornament and the Pursuit of Serenity,” Ceramics Art & Perception, 117 (2021).
“Form and Pattern: the Ceramic Sculptures of Mary Shannon Will” catalogue essay, Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, 2020-21.
“Pattern, Process, and Synthesis: The Ceramic Sculptures of Mary Shannon Will,” Studio Potter, July 1, 2021, online.
“Wholeness: Healing and Empathy in Hanna Yokozawa Farquharson’s Textile Works”, Catalogue essay, Moose Jaw Museum and Art Gallery for travelling exhibition, August, 2021.
“Charmian Johnson” (Review of exhibition), Galleries West, June 14, 2021, online.
“Good Earth: The Pots and Passion of Walter Ostrom,” (book review), Galleries West, July 12, 2021, online.
“Paul Scott’s New American Scenery: Creating a Conceptual Space for Reflection and (Possible) Reconciliation,” 2021, written at the request of Leslie Ferrin for Ferrin Contemporary Gallery, North Adams, MA, US.
“Amanda Wood: Interwoven,” review of exhibition, Craft Council of BC, August, 2021.
“A Practice in Gestures,” review of exhibition, Richmond Art Gallery, Galleries West, September 23, 2021, online.
“Long Shadows: Paul Scott and Judy Chartrand Disrupt the Now,” for NCECA 2022 panel, Meeting the Moment: Fertile Disruptions, with Ruth Chambers, Mireille Perron, and Julia Krueger.
“Craft, Service and Communities of Care,” year-end essay, Galleries West, December 26, 2022, online.
“Judy Chartrand,” artist profile, Studio Ceramics Canada, online Judy Chartrand | Studio Ceramics Canada
“Damian Moppett: Half Life, review of exhibition, Galleries West, April 14, 2023, online.
“Paul Mathieu: Ceramics! The Art of the Future? A History and a Theory,” Ceramics Now, January, 2024 (online) Paul Mathieu: Ceramics! The Art of the Future? A History and a Theory - Ceramics Now
Professional Activity and Awards (selected):
- Shortlisted, Robert Jekyll Award for Leadership in Craft, Canadian Crafts Federation, 2021 and 2022.
- Citizen of Craft Award, Craft Council of BC, 2022.
- Artist talk, All Consuming, Craft Council of BC, June 16, 2022. Online https://vimeo.com/722360799
- Juror (one of three) for Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramics, Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery, 2021.
- Named Honorary Member, NCECA (National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts), 2021.
- Awards Committee, Craft Council of British Columbia, 2019.
- Ceramic Residency, Medalta International Artist-in-Residence, Medicine Hat, AB, October, 2018.
- Member, Curatorial Advisory Committee, Burlington Art Gallery Canadian Craft Biennial 2017
- Work Accepted for presentation/sale in Gallery of BC Ceramics (juried/ceramics), 2014-2018 (gallery closed)
- Juror (sole) Portage Awards, New Zealand’s national ceramics award, October, 2013.
- Currently self-employed artist/writer, maker of ceramics, Vancouver, BC.
- Nominator, RBC Emerging Artist People’s Choice Award, Gardiner Museum, 2012 (nominated Eliza Au).
- External Examiner, MFA defense, Stephanie Jonsson, Emily Carr University, 2012.
- Invited Speaker, Camosum College, Victoria, BC, Performance and Installation in Ceramics Practice, Oct, 2012.
- Moderator, Panel, NCECA, Seattle, WA. “Ceramics at the Edge of Form.” March, 2012.
- Invited Curator, Greg Payce: Illusions, Gardiner Museum, Toronto, January – May, 2012.
- Invited Speaker, “Critical Santa Fe,” Organized by NCECA, Santa Fe, NM, October 27-30, 2010.
- Board of Governors Alumni Award of Excellence, ACAD, 2010
- Development and maintenance of NWCF website (2010 and on-going: www.nwcf.ca )
- Board Member, North-West Ceramics Foundation (2008 to present), Vancouver, BC
- Board Member; BC Potters’ Guild (2009 – 2012), continuing to write frequent reviews for newsletter.
- Member, Craft Council of BC.
- Moderator, panel, “A Question of Aesthetics,” Canadian Clay Symposium, Burnaby, BC, March 2010.
- Artist-in-Residence, Medalta International Artists-in-Residence, Medicine Hat, AB, June 2009.
- Presenter, “China on my Mind,” NeoCraft conference, Halifax, NS, November 2007.
- Presenter, Invisible Visible conference, Crafts Federation “Year of Craft,” Calgary, June 2007.
- Presenter, Mobile Structures, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, January 2007.
- Panel Chair, NCECA, Portland, March 2006, Inner Immensity: Ceramics and Place.
- Chair, Liberal Studies, Alberta College of Art & Design (2004-2005). Head and Assistant to the Chair, (2002-2004)
- Instructor, ACAD, Contemporary Theory, Survey Art History, History of Modernism, History of Ceramics, Painting, Drawing, Seminar (varied assignments). Sessional: 1990--2000. Permanent Half-time, 2001-2006.
- Editor (with Ruth Chambers and Mireille Perron) Utopic Impulses: Contemporary Ceramics Practice (Ronsdale Press: 2007) and (with Paula Gustafson and Nïsse Gustafson) Craft Perception and Practice v. 3 (Ronsdale Press, 2007).
- Co-Organizer of Symposium Decoration and Ornament: Aspects of Practice, ACAD, Calgary, AB 2005.
- Presenter, Consequence of Material, conference held at Red Deer College, June 11-13, 2004
- Panelist, UAAC, Queen’s University, Nov. 2003, “Perspectives in Craft History.”
- Invited Speaker, Skaelskor Denmark, on topic of Architectural Ceramics in Canada, August, 2003.
- Panel Chair (with Ruth Chambers) and presenter, UAAC conference, Nov. 2002 "Craft in the Expanded Field"
- Invited Speaker, SOFA event (Sculptural Objects and Functional Art), Chicago, IL, October, 2001.
- Moderator, Panel addressing the History of Ceramics, NCECA, Kansas City, MO, March 2002.
- Panelist, “Canadada,” CAA meeting, Toronto Ontario, February 1998. (topic: Feminist Humour).
- Panelist, “Intertextual Strategies and the Material Object,” Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK, Sept. 27, 1997.
- Panelist, “The Politics and Ethics of Materials,” MAWA, Winnipeg, Manitoba, May 24, 1997.
- Panelist, “Messing with Art History,” Optica, Montréal, May 4-5, 1996.
- Panelist, “Arrière-Garde Criticality in Contemporary Ceramics and Fiber Practices,” UAAC, Guelph, November, 1995.
- Moderator: Panel addressing installation art, ceramics, and feminism, NCECA conference, New Orleans, March 1994.
- Participant: “Reconsidering Function(s),” Banff Centre, July, 1993;
- Panelist/Participant: “Interventing the Text,” University of Calgary, May, 1992.
- Member, editorial board, Texts, a journal of critical writing and the arts, 1989-1993
- Work included in private, museum and corporate collections.