NOVA SCOTIA
CENTRE FOR CRAFT
AND DESIGN
2014 Exhibition Proposals
The Mary E. Black Gallery is now accepting proposals for 2014 exhibitions. DEADLINE MARCH 15th. Read more here...
Register Now for Winter Courses
The Winter 2012 Courses and Workshops Brochure is now available! Click here to check them out!
Opportunity: 2012 Summer Residency Program!
Apply now for the Centre for Craft's Summer Residency Program. You can choose to work in any of our studios (Ceramics, Wood, Metal/Jewellery, Weaving/Textile, or (NEW this year) Glass!)
Applications are due before 4pm, on Friday April 27th, 2012. But don't delay, the spaces fill up quickly.
Interested? Read more here. Contact our Studio Coordinator, Alexis at studiocoordinator@craft-design.ns.ca for any inquiries.
In the Mary E. Black Gallery...
Chalkworks
Rory MacDonald
January 13 - February 26
The Nova Scotia Centre for Craft and Design, and the Mary E. Black Gallery are proud to present Chalkworks by Rory MacDonald.
Chalkworks is an ongoing examination of ceramic surface as a recorder for the present. The work interrogates the images of historical ceramic decoration and personal memory, within a fragile and even fugitive surface. No longer are these objects able to retain their role as permanent recorders typical of our expectation of the ceramic surface.
Equally important is the haptic nature of pots themselves. The desire to preserve the surface is conflicted with the desire to pick up the works. One must almost choose between a hierarchy of image over form.
In accepting the changing nature of the surfaces hopefully this becomes an advantage for the works to be become a new type of ceramic recording spaces where permanence is replaced with a commitment to layering.
Visit us at the Halifax Seaport to see the incredible work of Rory MacDonald.
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