Gloria Hickey craft writer

Monday, 30 November 2015

Ron Hynes dies at age 64

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There is no doubt that the cultural world of St. John's took another big hit when we lost Ron Hynes to cancer.  Weeks prior the word...
Thursday, 19 November 2015

HUNGER satisfies

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Ruth Lawrence's new production grapples with a difficult topic in difficult times  Like many in the audience I felt a certain a...
Monday, 16 November 2015

Musical Balm or a Musical Binge?

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This week I've been on something of a musical binge:  repeated listening to a new CD by emerging talent Ilia Nicoll (with its surreali...
Thursday, 12 November 2015

How Gerry Squires Shaped Newfoundland's Cultural Identity

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While other artists would have painted leaves Gerry went for exposed roots. By now everybody has heard that we have lost Gerry Squires...
Wednesday, 4 November 2015

Is it possible to have too much fun?

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My apologies to all those unnamed in this article who turned up in fabulous costumes and who made great contributions to the meeting. ...
Friday, 23 October 2015

Interpreting Fictions with Greg Bennett

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  Fictions  by Greg Bennett - at the Christina Parker Gallery until October 31, 2015 GH:  Is it my imagination, or have we been waiting ...
Wednesday, 21 October 2015

Fibre Arts 2015 Newfoundland & Labrador!

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On Wednesday morning bright and early I boarded a chartered bus from St. John's to Gros Morne National Park.  I felt like a kid o...
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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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