Gloria Hickey craft writer

Sunday, 30 June 2013

In Praise of Ned

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Ned Pratt, for once, on the other side of the camera. Over the past 19 years, working with a diverse and ever-growing group of photogr...
Sunday, 23 June 2013

The Writing Life, Do Exhibition Reviews Matter?

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This week was distributed across several projects, for example several days ago I was advised that C magazine was out on the stands and...
Sunday, 16 June 2013

More Than Skin Deep

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Why does someone make the commitment of using their body as a canvas?  How do they choose their imagery or designs?  How do the images re...
Sunday, 9 June 2013

Multiply and conquer

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On the 7th, there was a notable buzz in the air at the Christina Parker Gallery as novelist Lisa Moore and (this time) poet Michael Cr...
Sunday, 2 June 2013

Behind the Scenes of the Strathbutler Award

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Lithospermum  weaving on Rococo Revival balloon-back side chair. Giving out an award can be a little like being Santa Claus:  deciding ...
Friday, 24 May 2013

The consequences of how you define art…

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Fogo Island Inn is scheduled to open soon!  An exciting example of architecture, community development and inspired patronage by the Shore...
Monday, 13 May 2013

All hail matriarch Mary Pratt

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CBC photo of Mary Pratt at The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery May 11,2013. The Friday evening reception for the Mary Pratt retrospective...
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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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