Gloria Hickey craft writer

Thursday, 30 April 2015

Man proposes, God disposes and Art Excels

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A.Y. Jackson's Red Maples - inspiration for the necklace! Between travelling between two households and dealing with much that was...
Sunday, 19 April 2015

Wild Talk at the Craft Council Gallery

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left to right: Ford's "Fracked" ducks, Furneaux's child-sized dress, Minty's felted vessel, Frances and Maxine Ennis...
Sunday, 12 April 2015

G does the GG Awards

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Gloria Hickey and Gilles Latour in the greenhouse at Rideau Hall. On April the 8th I had the good fortune to attend my first Governor ...
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Sunday, 5 April 2015

The Strange Questions I Get Asked

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Happy Easter Everyone! One of the things that I have never anticipated in my career is having fans.  Now all of a sudden, people I d...
Sunday, 29 March 2015

Puffy Dresses be Damned!

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I don't know about you but I am not trying it on. The text message read, "I fear for our puffy dresses".  It was from my...
Wednesday, 18 March 2015

Transfixed by Louise Moyes

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Louise Moyes in her one-woman show Taking in Strangers Louise Moyes could recite the alphabet and stroke her arms through the air like...
Sunday, 15 March 2015

Being a mother of an activist

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When I was in the seventh grade a boy in another seventh grade set fire to my hair.  It was supposed to be our solemn communion at St. M...
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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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