Virtual Artist Talk with Maura Doyle
The Gardiner Museum brings together people of all ages and backgrounds through the shared values of creativity, wonder, and community that clay and ceramic traditions inspire.
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Virtual Artist Talk with Maura Doyle
June 15, 2022 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
This program is presented as part of the International Ceramic Art Fair (ICAF).
Join featured artist Maura Doyle for a virtual presentation on her hybrid practice which encompasses ceramics, sculpture, printed matter/publications and drawing.
ABOUT MAURA DOYLE
Maura Doyle is an artist and writer whose hybrid practice encompasses ceramics, sculpture, printed matter/publications, and drawing. Connecting all of her work is a vernacular style of artmaking rooted in her day-to-day life. Her current focus is on her inner and outer worlds as it relates to the forms of artworks she makes. Doyle’s erratic boulder sculptural works are permanently installed in Toronto and Vancouver. Writing about her work has appeared in The Globe and Mail, National Post, Canadian Art, Art Fag City, and Broken Pencil, among others.
Doyle holds a BFA from Emily Carr Uiversity of Art + Design and an MFA from the University of Guelph. Solo and group exhibitions include Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver, 2020), Open Studio (Toronto, 2019), Angus-Hughes Gallery (London UK, 2018), Carleton University Art Gallery (Ottawa, 2016), Dalhousie University Art Gallery (Halifax, 2015), YYZ Artists’ Outlet (Toronto, 2014), ScotiaBank Nuit Blanche, (Toronto, 2011), Paul Petro Contemporary Art (Toronto, 2009), Remo (Osaka, 2006), Power Plant (Toronto, 2005), White Columns (New York, 2004), and Art Metropole (Toronto, 2003).
Doyle’s work is held in the collections of the City of Toronto, City of Vancouver, City of Ottawa, Fidelity Investments, TD Bank Group, Ottawa Art Gallery, and Global Affairs Canada. She has been awarded numerous grants, including from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and is the recipient of the 2017 K.M. Hunter Award for Visual Art. She lives and works in Ottawa / Algonquin Anishinaabeg Aki.
ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL CERAMIC ART FAIR
The International Ceramic Art Fair (ICAF) makes its highly anticipated return to the Gardiner Museum, featuring works by emerging and established ceramic artists from a wide range of backgrounds, and an exciting slate of online and in-person programming.
ICAF 2022 celebrates connections between body, identity, and land. Global mythologies have long connected the human body to the earth, from a Nubian deity fashioning humans from clay to scientific explorations of clay as the first carrier of life. The human body is symbolically if not literally connected to clay, helping us understand who we are as individuals, a society, and a species.
As we navigate global health and environmental crises, understanding our bodily connection to the earth becomes increasingly urgent. Likewise, the experiences of being, or being in, a particular body defines many aspects of our lives, from health and ability, to experiences of discrimination and trauma. Our bodies help construct our identities, mediating, filtering, and generating our experiences.
Figurative ceramic sculpture is one of the most dynamic areas of practice today. Artists from across the spectrum are exploring new approaches, representations, and voices to help us see ourselves in ways that generate compassion, empathy, truth telling, and beauty.
This year’s Honorary Patron is internationally renowned Kenyan-born British studio potter, Magdalene Odundo.
Presenting Sponsor
Lead Sponsor
Supporting Sponsors
David Binet
Margaret McCain
Contributing Sponsors
Tamara Rebanks & James Appleyard
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