Thin Red Line, 2016. Porcelain, china paint, bronze, 26 x 49 x 30 cm. Earthlings installation image
Thin red line
Monthly Archives: February 2017
Red Web
Thin Red Line, hand-woven red wool web installation
Western Medicine
Western Medicine, 2015 – 2016. 76 x 55 x 55 cm. Plaster, human hair, vintage graduation cap, cigarette, acrylic, ink. Figure sculpted, detailed and painted by Boyle, face painted by Ashoona.
2015, in process
Shuvinai and I painting my sculpture, together in the tiny basement studio at Concordia in fall 2015, Montreal
reunion
Me, Shuv and Western Medicine. Shuvinai hadn’t seen this work completed since she painted the face in 2015. I had hauled it around two provinces and studios, slowly waiting for the right way to finish it.
Self Portrait
Checking out Shuvinai and my collaborative drawing, Self Portrait
earthlings party
Mary and Shuvinai Ashoona and I, enjoying the night
Calgary nights
Pierre, John and I in front of the Needle
the Ashoona’s
Shuvinai runs hamming up the Calgary zoo highway bridge after her daughter Mary
P, J, S, A + R
Pierre, John and I discuss.
axis and revolution
Axis and Revolution. My table of 31 terra cotta sculptures about the state of the world in 2016 gets some deep looks
Bust
Pierre, me and John stand behind our heads
Earthlings Opens
Close to 1400!! people attended the opening reception of Earthlings at the Esker Foundation, on January 21, 2017. Way to support the deep winter arts, Calgary
Earthlings
L-R: Shauna Thompson (Esker curator), John Kurok (artist), me, Shuvinai Ashoona (artist), Pierre Aupilardjak (artist), Marnie Schreiber (friend of the North!), Naomi Potter (Esker director), at the opening reception of Earthlings, January 21, 2017. Esker Foundation, Calgary, AB
Drunk Underworld
Can’t get enough of this early drunk-theatre-photo projection, I try to sneak it into every show I’ve done in the past 10 years. The green Underworld set-frame I designed (and NAC perfectly executed!! thank you) was 30 feet wide and descended (flew in) from the ceiling for the big last-act finale, along with smoke and light show. Malificent!!
ham jams
Bruce McCulloch, Jesi Jordon and I dazzle the post-show
i heart Jesi Jordon
Jesi Jordon doing her beyond-hilarious yoga routine. Namas-dayyyo
Voix-de-Ville!!
Final bow for Niagara Artist Centre’s extravagonzo of live performance, dance, comedy, music, projections and mime… November 18-19, 2016 at the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre. My first set-design commission, inspired by the early silent films of Molinier, and the 1959 classic Black Orpheus
Matchbox-Style
An incredible example of exquisite sculpting, and the sublime surface smoke effects perfected by Matchbox studio in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut. Heaven on Geese by John Kurok. Smoke-fired porcelain, 2016
The ashes
Barrel firing
John pours in the sawdust for a smoke-firing
Medalta crew, September 2016
Medalta resident artists, September 2016, L-R: Giselle Peters, me, John Kurok, Noriko Masuda, Pierre Aupilardjuk, Gailan Ngan and Les Manning
faces
Pierre Aupilardjuk’s greenware faces, to be attached to a large Medalta crock. This clay fires cream coloured
faces
John’s mask, before firing
The Shepherd
The Shepherd, 2016. Porcelain, stoneware and bronze. After I sculpted the mountain I realized I was inspired by the Lawren Harris show at the AGO
pierre helps it stand
Pierre stabilizes my unfired sculpture so I can stand back and look
mask and seals
John hollows out the inside of a mask
John and Pierre get to work
John and Pierre get to work
Medalta 2016!
Pierre Aupilardjuk (middle), John Kurok and I arrive at Medalta Historic Potteries in Medicine Hat, Alberta for our September 2016 residency