THE SEAHORSE PROJECT – The interview

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artist residency, École d'art d'Ottawa, Interview, Ottawa School of Art, seahorse, YouTube

Finally I found time to go to the Ottawa School of Art to use their movie editing software and put this interview together. Mind you the next day there was a giant sinkhole downtown right where I passed by to go home afterwards. Being an artist is risky business. 🙂

It is now up and running on my YouTube Channel. This was done last year during the opening of my end of Artist Residency at the Ottawa School of Art.

Dawn Dale, artist, friend and mentor, was kind enough to do it and did a great job. I’ll let you be the judge of it.

Reception night for The Seahorse Project

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argile noire, Artwork, black and white, black clay, Céramique, Ceramic art, contemporain, contemporary, décoration, Exhibition, Exposition, hippocampe, Interview, Laguna Frost, noir et blanc, objet d'art, oeuvre d'art, Ottawa School of Art, Paula Murray, porcelain, porcelaine, sculpture, seahorse, YouTube

After a big Fall storm, some people were brave enough to come and have a chat during the Reception for my show at the Ottawa School of Art.
Fellow ceramic artist Hilde Lambrecht got me a wonderful bottle of wine with a Seahorse on it called “Promised Land”. It was very “À propos” for this show. Thanks Hilde! Thanks as well to all of those who showed up and those who have already visited and left a note in my book, as well as those who will come prior to Wednesday (when I’ll take it down).
A big thanks to Dawn Dale as well for graciously accepting to interview me for a YouTube video.

Nice!

Fellow ceramist Hilde Lambrecht writing a note

Awesome gift from Hilde.

Refugees.

Friends and fellow artists.

On the Line

Ready when you are.

Still Standing.

The Pacifist.

Flagship Species.

The Fallen.

Friends and fellow artists.

Friends and fellow artists.

View from outside, at night.

View from outside, at night.

View from outside, at night.

Photoshoot for Lines in Nature | La nature des choses

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Artwork, Céramique, Ceramic art, contemporain, contemporary, hippocampe, Laguna Frost, objet d'art, oeuvre d'art, Paula Murray, porcelain, porcelaine, sculpture, seahorse

Last Sunday, all of the artists collaborating on the show “Lines in Nature | La nature des choses” were at the Ottawa School of Art to take pictures of our work for the catalogue. While some of the pieces were still a work in progress, Paula Murray and I had decided to have it finished for the photoshoot.

On the project’s Blog you can see pictures of the artists interacting with each other. They were taken by Dawn Dale.

Here is our piece entitled On the line | En eaux troubles. It will be for sale at La Fab (Old Chelsea, QC) between May 23-June 21. A big thank you to our Maggie Knaus for photographing all the artworks that day. It promises to be an exciting show.

On the line | En eaux troubles (credits: Maggie Knaus)

On the line | En eaux troubles (closeup of the seahorse) – (credits: Maggie Knaus)

Artist Residency – Work in Progress (9)

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seahorse

Here is the latest prior to bisque firing. I am thinking of having a twin for this one, that could be put back to back on the wall or facing the other one…

Artist Residency – Work in progress (7)

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argile noire, b, black and white, black clay, Céramique, Ceramic art, contemporain, contemporary, Laguna Frost, noir et blanc, porcelain, porcelaine, sculpture, seahorse

Sorry for being late with my posts, I did some updates on my Website (CV, Links, News and Press sections) and it takes time and I have been working on a large piece for the Lines in nature Project (photos are coming soon). I also have also been working on a mangrove piece for my end of residency show using both black clay and my white porcelaineous Laguna Frost clay. It’s pretty long and wide enough that it didn’t fit a half kiln shelf so the tech will have a hard time putting it in. I hope it’ll be OK… (I did offer my help in case she needs a second pair of hands). I also glazed my second piece for the bell jar and prepared some tiles for the Lines in nature Project (spoiler alert: I might try some terra siggilata on them).

Mangrove piece

Mangrove piece

Mangrove piece

glaze firing

glaze firing

glaze firing

glaze firing

test tiles for the Lines in nature Project

Artist Residency – Work in progress (6)

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artist residency, Artwork, Céramique, Ceramic art, contemporain, contemporary, hippocampe, Laguna Frost, porcelain, porcelaine, Résidence d'artiste, seahorse

Here are the 2 pieces that will go into the bell jars I previously mentioned.
They are based on the curio trade or a.k.a. the souvenir trade, which is one of the 4 main reasons why seahorses are an endangered species today.

Curio # I

Curio # I

Curio # I

Curio # I

Curio # I

Curio # I

Curio # I

Curio # II

Curio # II

Curio # II

Curio # II

Curio # II

Curio # II

Curio # II

Curio # II

Artist Residency – Work in progress (week 2)

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Artwork, hippocampe, Laguna Frost, porcelain, porcelaine, sculpture, seahorse

After learning that seahorses are on the brink of extinction within the next 20-30 years, I made this large wall piece. I decided to learn some more about this intriguing species. The more I read, the more I think I found my theme for this artist residency.
To learn more, here are some websites:
Project Seahorse (a marine conservation organisation and UBC initiative committed to the conservation and sustainable use of the world’s coastal marine ecosystems).

Seahorse | Hippocampe