CerAMICA BOTANICA: A CONSTANT AND MISGUIDED OPTIMISM Exhibition, 2020 Flowers and plants have long been codified and are powerful communicative objects. Fairbank’s past work considers flora, wild or domestic, as a living witness to humanity. Now she asks the viewer to witness the plants, invasive, local and exotic that are attempting to exist, cleaning our […]
Innocuous Tropicals,
innocuous Tropicals Exhibition, 2018 The source material for these compositions has been continuously accumulated through Florida living. In Florida plants persist. These are specific species, from particular places. They are researched passionately and rigorously whether native flora, innocuous, invasive imports demanding space, plants that make you ill or plants that offer remedy. Rather than translating […]
Orange Citrus 1246 P St., FRUKTPLOCAR, Detail
FRUKTPLOCAR is inspired by https://fallingfruit.org/ , one of many crowd sourced fruit maps in the world, Bridget Fairbank chose to spend the winter months in Canada mining the internet, while eating and pondering imported fruit. Stalking images of specific plants, Fairbank virtually walked the city, in every season, imagined the smells, the sounds and the people around […]
This Way or That Way, Fireweed Detail, Between Things: Alberta Ceramics
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, Fireweed Detail, Between Things: Alberta Ceramics
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; […]
Grottesca
Beppo
Somewhere under the rainbow
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