Gloria Hickey craft writer

Sunday, 31 March 2013

The artist as pseudo-scientist: Phillipa Jones

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These are some of the "specimens" in MIRIAD: a flying fox and trifle jellyfish For the third time since it opened on March...
Monday, 25 March 2013

Joanne Copp's ceramics in words and pictures

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Joanne Copp's burnished vessels are noted for their luminous gold-leaf interiors. In this day and age of all things digital it i...
Tuesday, 19 March 2013

Busy Times: Venice & EVA

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This past weekend (March 16, 2013) I had the pleasure of attending the reception to kick start the upcoming Excellence in Visual Arts ...
Sunday, 10 March 2013

Kissing a Good Idea Goodbye

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I fell in love with Janice Wright Cheney's coy-wolves in New Brunswick. I find myself often saying that good ideas are a dime a ...
Sunday, 3 March 2013

Glenn Adamson maintains high priest position of craft but changes focus for the future

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Few of us in the practice of contemporary craft theory would argue with the assertion that Glenn Adamson has been the reigning high prie...
Monday, 25 February 2013

Surreal Gowns and Paintings by Brent Coffin

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Brent Coffin poses with the models in the "Living Gowns".  All photos by  Malin Enstrom. During the Valentine's weeken...
Monday, 18 February 2013

Why are we still talking about Craft vs. Art?

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One of the iconic horse figures from Houdé's Ming Series. One of François Houdé's boule brisé or broken bowls. I was re...
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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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