Gloria Hickey craft writer

Friday, 27 July 2018

Just Be Gemma

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Last week was Pride Week in St. John's.  It is good to see that the week-long event has become more than a marketing ploy with rainbow...
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Sunday, 15 July 2018

Everything from yacking to yoiking

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Frode Fjellheim Last night (Saturday July 7/18) was another jam packed evening of talent and good camaraderie at the Sound S...
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Tuesday, 3 July 2018

The Red and the White of Canada Day

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I hope I never have to read another book like this one, Seven Fallen Feathers, Racism, Death, And Hard Truths In A Northern City .  This ...
Tuesday, 29 May 2018

Ranting versus reviewing

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“The unexamined life is not worth living” or so the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates supposedly said–and I am willing to bet that i...
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Monday, 14 May 2018

A Transfusion of Colour

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Susan Parson's painting on the traffic box was a welcome boost. My Mother's Day was not turning out the way I had hoped.  Withou...
Monday, 30 April 2018

My Leonard Cohen is not a Planetary Icon

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I was not amongst the nearly 300,000 visitors to the Musée d’art contemporain’s blockbuster exhibition, Leonard Cohen Une Breche en T...
Friday, 6 April 2018

Looking Through Painted Glass-Rosemary Lawton's Debut CD

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Rosemary Lawton’s premiere CD, Painted Glass is a delightful listen–full of colour, tone and nuance and a few surprises.   What follows i...
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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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