The North-West Ceramics Foundation is pleased to announce Trudy Golley as their next speaker at a free public lecture Thursday, November 7, 2019, at 7:30 pm, in Room 103, the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts (6450 Deer Lake Avenue, Burnaby, BC). All are welcome and encouraged to attend.

​Skill, developed through material exploration, delivers freedom from the limitations of technique. Working through exciting new possibilities, the elements of risk and transformation are among the reasons why I make at all.

Born and raised in Revelstoke, BC, Trudy Golley studied at the Alberta College of Art and the University of Calgary, where she received her BFA. She received her MFA from the University of Tasmania, in Hobart, Australia. She currently lives in Red Deer, Alberta, where she is Head of Ceramics and an Instructor in the Visual Art Department, School of Creative Arts at Red Deer College. Golley has participated in numerous international artist residencies and has exhibited her work, presented lectures or lead workshops in Australia, Hong Kong, The US, China, Japan and elsewhere, and her work can be found in public and private collections in Canada and abroad. She has been the recipient of numerous awards including ones from the Manitoba Arts Council, The Alberta Foundation for the Arts and the Canada Council. She was inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 2002.

In her presentation, Golley will reveal how numerous residencies at Medalta, in Medicine Hat, Alberta, and The Pottery Workshop, in Jingdezhen, China, have informed recent developments in her studio practice. Golley will discuss how she employs bi-directional fabrication, a circular process wherein traditional ceramic materials and techniques are blended with emergent digital technologies to reveal new opportunities. She will discuss how such systems offer a means by which to expand the boundaries of practices, linking material traditions with the digitally immaterial.

​Trudy Golley’s lecture will take place Thursday, November 7, 2019, at 7:30 pm, in Room 103, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts (6450 Deer Lake Avenue, Burnaby, BC). We look forward to seeing you there.
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