
Jim Robison
Jim Robison
Alexandra Lambley
Alexandra Lambley, a PhD student at University College Falmouth, Cornwall, and Research Fellow at The Leach Pottery, St. Ives, is currently carrying out research in Vancouver and its environs regarding British Columbia’s Studio Pottery past and present. The material gathered will be integral to her PhD thesis entitled Mingei and its Transnational Reception: A Comparative Study of Studio Pottery in south west England and west Canada, which she is to complete by December 2013.
Her PhD thesis, emphasising potter Bernard Leach’s role in disseminating Mingei philosophy and practice transnationally, will evaluate the legacy of Mingei and its multiple and differing receptions, with a particular focus on St. Ives and Vancouver. These two locations have been selected to highlight not only their relationship to Japan through Mingei but also to one another.
Taking place the night before Alex returns to St. Ives, the aim of this lecture is for her to give an overview of The Leach Pottery today, including the opportunities available to international potters. She will also talk about her research in the context of The Leach Pottery, and will summarise her thoughts and ideas following her four-week stay in British Columbia.
Alexandra Lambley’s lecture will take place at 7:30, Friday, April 27, in Room 105 at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts. We look forward to seeing you there.
Jae Won Lee
“Noticing things is crucial to making art: things about ourselves, problems, and challenges. Making art allows us to declare who we are.”
Jae Won Lee was born and raised in Seoul, South Korea. She absorbed a love of Korean culture from her parents, who taught literature, wrote poetry and translated American and English stories into Korean. She came to the United States to attend California State University at Long Beach and the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, where she received her MFA in 1995. Here she experienced a new and foreign culture, mining the on-going sensation of suspension between cultures to produce her labour-intensive and contemplative work.
Blue Mountain (view), 2010, cup and saucer, dish set, porcelain, wooden shelves.
Lee attended numerous artist residencies including Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Newcastle, Maine; the Pottery Workshop in Shanghai, China; the Chung Nam National University in Deajeon, Korea, The Clay Studio in Philadelphia and the European Ceramic Workcenter in the Netherlands. In March of 2012, she presented “In Search of Streams and Mountains” in the “New Work” category at the NCECA conference in Seattle. In this work, Lee examines the traditional genre of Chinese landscape painting, exploring both the “actual topography of a grand site and the layers of psychological and art historical meanings that are embedded in the scenery.” She has taught at a number of institutions including Camberwell College of Arts in London, Rutgers State University in New Jersey and Michigan State University in East Lansing, where she has taught since 1998. Her work has been exhibited extensively across the United States and internationally in Korea, the Netherlands and China. She is represented by Paul Kotula Projects in Detroit, Michigan.
The lecture will take place Thursday, October 18 at 7:30 pm in room 245, NB, Emily Carr University. All are welcome and we look forward to seeing you there.
Note: For more on Jae Won Lee, please see her website at www.jaewonlee.net
The North-West Ceramics Foundation is pleased to announce the Australian ceramic artist Gwyn Hanssen Pigott as their featured speaker at a public lecture, free with museum admission, Saturday, November 3, 2012, 1:00 pm to 3 pm. Continue reading
Ying-Yueh Chuang