As a response to the climate crisis, Fairbank has created two opposing archways representing two different ways forward. Industry Arch represents monoculture and industrial practices, Floral Arch includes native plant species that are threatened by industry and industrial farming. The work asks many difficult questions including can these two directions exist simultaneously? Must we choose […]
This Way or That Way, Industrial Arch, Installation view, Between Things: Alberta Ceramics
his arch contains all materials available to a standard ceramics studio. Alumia, Chrome, Cobalt, Copper Carbonate, Calcium Carbonate, Silica (Flint) Sil-Co-Sil, Alumina Hydrate, Alberta Slip, Barium Carbonate, Bentonite, Black Copper Oxide, Black Nickel Oxide, Black Iron Oxide, Borax, Bone Ash, Tri-Calcium Phosphate, Calcium Carbonate, Chrome Oxide, Edgar Plastic Kaolin, Fireclay Red, Gold Art Airfloated Clay, […]
This Way or That Way, Installation view, Between Things: Alberta Ceramics
At a moment when ceramics are everywhere, Between Things: Alberta Ceramics includes sculptures and installations made by contemporary artists committed to clay to ask how ceramics can activate our experience of and relationship to the world around us. This exhibition examines the ceramic object through three interconnected ideas—the ceramic object in relation to its materials and processes; […]
