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32 page colour exhibition catalogue.
In the past 25 years, Peter Powning has earned respect among connoisseurs
of fine craft as one of Canada's most innovative ceramists. Many
people recognize his distinctive and commercially successful raku
pottery, but few realize that he is also a sculptor with an international
reputation. Gloria Hickey has curated the first national solo exhibition
of Powning's sculpture for the Canadian Clay and glass Gallery,
and Peter Powning: Elemental Clay and Glass documents this exhibition
with 46 colour photographs, curatorial essay and artist's statement.
Powning has exhibited his clay, glass and bronze works in over 60
galleries and museums in Canada, the US, Germany, Scandinavia, the
UK, Australia, New Zealand, China and Japan. He has gained international
recognition through the Mino International Ceramics Competition,
Fletcher Award Show in New Zealand and the Kanazawa International
Exhibition of Glass in Japan. In New Brunswick, he won the 1991
Deichmann Award for Excellence in Craft and the 1993 Strathbutler
Award.
Gloria Hickey's curatorial essay tells how and why Powning made
the pieces in the exhibition. Candid yet sensitive, it assesses
Powning's importance among Canadian ceramists and glass artists,
and it interprets the interests and values that permeate not only
his pottery and sculpture, but his personal life as well.
Peter Powning's studio is near Sussex, New Brunswick. He has served
on the New Brunswick Arts Board, the Premier's Advisory Council
on the Arts, and the New Brunswick Craft Council, and he has been
a visiting artist at the Banff Centre for the Arts. Gloria Hickey,
a St. John's writer and curator, twice won the Betty Park Award
of Merit for her contributions to critical writing about craft in
North America. In 1994 she was nominated for the Imperial Oil Award
for Excellence in Arts Journalism.
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Title: Peter Powning: Elemental Clay and Glass
Ratwing Press 1996
ISBN 0-9680884-0-6
$17.95 Cdn
32 Page, 9" x 12" colour catalogue
Artist's statement and
curatorial essay.
50 colour images plus text.
Sturdy softcover with 4" endflaps.
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Markhamville, NB
E4E 4H3
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collection of images from this exhibition are available for viewing.
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