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Creative Coast the arts in october16 coastlines 28 Back to the land JOHN LUNA An upcoming exhibition displays the resourcefulness and innovation of Vancouver Island-area potters of the 1970s and early ’80s. Right: Hakeme teapot by Wayne Ngan (1974), stoneware, bamboo handle, 5 inches high, Diane Carr collection Below: Teapot by Gordon Hutchens (1984), stoneware, wood-fired, 9.5 inches high by 8.5 inches in diameter, artist’s collection Below right: Vessel by Robin Hopper (1978), “Parabolic Mocha Diffusions”, artist’s collection Next page: Platter by Walter Dexter (ca 1985), stoneware, 3 inches high by 15.75 inches in diameter, Sabiston collection 16 October <strong>2012</strong> • FOCUS
When she directed the Cartwright Street Gallery in Vancouver, Diane Carr used to find herself thinking that if she could take a box of Wayne Ngan tea bowls around to the heads of local corporations, extracting a promise from each to use the bowl every day for a month, the money would flow in. “I think ceramics are very contemplative,” she says. The day-to-day encounters with a humble tea bowl are part of a continuum that includes the artist’s movements, the behaviours of clay and fire, and the domestic impressions that form a rhythm over time; a texture carried in the hands, a contour brought to the lips. As Carr confirms, “you have to use more than just your visual sense.” This October, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria will present the work of 31 ceramic artists from Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands made during the 1970s and ’80s. Guest-curated by Carr, Back to the Land is the first group exhibition to focus on this unique period in the island communities of the West Coast, who up until now have been unacknowledged by official histories of West Coast ceramics. Carr, who spent months rounding up key pieces from collections, notes in her catalogue essay, “The pots exhibited here represent a short period in which there was a remarkable explosion of ceramics activity on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands. It was a brief era in which the modernist and Anglo-Asian influences that prevailed were beginning to give way to the contemporary post-modern influences that would revitalize ceramic practice in this region.” Carr herself was a product of the moment. Though raised on Vancouver Island, she had come under the spell of modern art while studying in Portland, taking in a retrospective of Northwest Coast artist Mark Tobin. His seminal abstract painting, such as the “white writing” series, fused Asian-inspired calligraphic marks with a North American, “all-over” composition. These connections between Asian and Western art also inspired a love of ceramics, which Carr had collected from a tender age. www.focusonline.ca • October <strong>2012</strong> In pursuit of essential beauty To holistic dentist Dr Deanna Geddo DDS, aesthetic dentistry is a healing art, allowing each of us to discover our inner or essential beauty TRUE BEAUTY, says Dr. Geddo, is not about vanity. “It’s an important part of our healing journey.” She offers her skillful hand, artistic eye,and biocompatible aesthetic materials to help patients create a freer, more fabulous version of themselves—often in as little as one or two hours! Call today to learn more. Dr. Deanna Geddo, DDS • 250-389-0669 HOLISTIC DENTAL OFFICE AND HEALING CENTRE 404 - 645 Fort St (across from Bay Centre) doctor_dg@shaw.ca www.integrateddentalstudio.ca 17
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