Gloria Hickey craft writer

Monday, 27 March 2017

Kate Crackerberry Works Magic

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Detail of a puppet created by designer Baptiste Neis. Upon entering the performance space for Ruth Lawrence's Kate Crackerberr...
Monday, 20 March 2017

This Place the Way I See It, Ilse Hughes at Red Ochre Gallery

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Ilse Hughes with one her paintings. On Wednesday, March 15th, 2017 the Red Ochre Gallery was a buzz with visitors who had turned ou...
Sunday, 5 March 2017

Marc Chagall: Colour and Music, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

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It had been far too long since I'd had up my nose against a real Chagall painting, so I decided that a transfusion of his brand of col...
Sunday, 19 February 2017

Practicing Spontaneity–Canadian Improv Games

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We have come together In the spirit of loving competition, To celebrate the Canadian Improv Games. We promise to uphold the ideals...
Monday, 13 February 2017

Putting the Love Back into Valentine's Day

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I have always been struck by the commercialism of holidays such as Christmas, Easter, Halloween and of course Valentine's Day.  A few ...
Monday, 6 February 2017

Learning from Dinuk Wijeratne

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My big indulgence last week was the New Found Music Festival XIV, which was held at the Memorial University School of Music here in St. Jo...
Sunday, 29 January 2017

Curatorial 101: Kent Jones retrospective

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Baldy and Nipper by Kent Jones, acrylic and mixed media on canvas. Earlier this month I had the great pleasure to open a 45-retrospe...
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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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