Gloria Hickey craft writer

Friday, 20 February 2015

Entertainment or Insight?

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Colin Furlong holds the stage as Joseph Smallwood.  Newfoundland's Napoleon? On Wednesday night I traded in my Ash 'Wedndesday...
Sunday, 15 February 2015

Public Art that Succeeds at the Faculty of Medicine

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This is one of those rare examples where public art succeeds.  The instance is Crafting a Legacy, a ceramic mural that was unveiled at The...
Sunday, 8 February 2015

Keeping Lucky Rabbit on its Good Luck Streak

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This show was at The Art Gallery of Burlington.  And yes, the piece on the invitation sold. One of the bright spots in my week was an ...
Monday, 2 February 2015

To Have and to Hold–Art

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Audrey Hurd's first training was as a printmaker. It is interesting to think of sculpture show in terms of mark making. I have bee...
Tuesday, 27 January 2015

Pollution, Death and Responsibility

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This image shows a bird with enough oil on it to have a lethal effect. My mind has been a riot of ideas lately.  There has bee...
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Sunday, 18 January 2015

Are art critics parasites or cultural missionaries?

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Curator Zach Pearl to my left and publisher Beth Follett to my right. This was the discussion at Eastern Edge about Feminism and Art. One ...
Sunday, 11 January 2015

Does Originality Exist Today?

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This image comes from dingtwist which has a site on originality and creativity. One of the ideas that I have been struggling with ove...
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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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