Emergence 2024
June 1 to September 8, 2024
Emergence celebrates the winners and finalists of the Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery’s Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramics and RBC Award for Glass.
The Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramics and RBC Award for Glass are presented annually by the Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery with the support of The Keith and Winifred Shantz Fund for the Arts held at Waterloo Region Community Foundation and RBC Emerging Artists, respectively. The only national awards for emerging ceramic and glass artists in Canada, these prestigious prizes provide $10,000 to an artist in each medium to undertake a period of independent research and other activities that advance their artistic and professional practice. Both awards also now include a runner-up prize of $5,000 and up to three finalists who will each receive an award of $1,000.
Form and Reform: Bruce Cochrane
Guest Curated by Jonathan Smith
May 25 to September 8, 2024
Bruce Cochrane is an internationally known and respected ceramic artist with more than 50 years in the field. In the last decade, he has forged ahead in an increasingly complex direction. Recognized as a gifted potter with a superb technical background, he has taken the traditional wheel work of his youth and has pushed and pulled, cut and sliced his forms. These large-scale dynamic pieces are often now more in line with contemporary architecture. While still in touch with its functional predecessors, his work has turned the common vessel into an exploration that unites ceramics, architecture, and sculpture into a cohesive whole.