Gloria Hickey craft writer

Sunday, 18 December 2011

Modern Nativity by Rachel Ryan

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This glue-gun fiesta is Modern Nativity by Rachel Ryan, which I purchased from her recent solo show, Waking Dreams , at the Craft C...
Saturday, 10 December 2011

Martha Stewart & Craft

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What a pair of sourpusses!  Back in 1997 before she was a felon, Martha Stewart visited Newfoundland.  Bill Gates was picking up the tab as ...
Saturday, 3 December 2011

Surface Design Journal-Canadian Perspectives

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Barb Hunt's The Old Lie Each year the Surface Design Journal publishes an international issue with a focus on another country.  This yea...
Monday, 28 November 2011

The Competition for Retrospectives

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Back in September I opened the retrospective exhibition of Alexandra McCurdy at the Burlington Art Centre.  From exhibition proposal to open...
Saturday, 19 November 2011

Kevin Coates on front cover of Craft Journal

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This was published earlier this year but I wanted to point it out.  The article is about the use of the human figure in contemporary craft. ...
Wednesday, 15 June 2011

Crafted with Character

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Before Christmas I was approached by Wilma Hartman of Digital Daisy who produced this video with help from many craftspeople in the provinc...

Critical Eye Award

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This is my "grip and grin" photo with Mary Pratt, who is Patron of the EVAs.  I was lucky to be the first winner of the Critical ...
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Gloria Hickey is an independent curator and writer living in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador with more than 300 published craft related articles. She holds a Masters degree in Philosophy of Art from the University of Toronto (1981) and has curated major exhibitions for several institutions in Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador. including the Canadian Clay and Glass Museum. She has also published a chapter in the book The Culture of Craft (Manchester University Press 1997) and has edited two books published by the Canadian Museum of Civilization – Common Ground: Contemporary Craft, Architecture and the Decorative Arts (1999) and Making and Metaphor: A Discussion of Meaning in Contemporary Craft (1994). She is a two-time winner of the Betty Park Award for Critical Writing, hosted by the Surface Design Journal of CA, and received the 2010 award for Cultural Leadership in the Atlantic Region. In 2011, she was the first winner of the Critical Eye award in Newfoundland and Labrador.
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