“False Testimonies” by Trevor Novak
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Trevor Novak’s offbeat exhibition False Testimonies is a series of small vignettes of ceramic figurative sculptures, arranged differently in each installation to create a rich narrative for the viewer. Novak found inspiration for his sculptures, made of black unglazed clay and gold leaf, in Christian iconography and early medieval illuminations. See False Testimonies in the…
“Celebrate!!!” – Marla Benton
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South Shore artist Marla Benton shows a body of work inspired by her young daughter who started celebrating everything and anything, all the time. Benton described these celebrations as “a beautiful ritual to take on as an adult”. She started to look at life with a twist of a little girl’s perspective then began making…
Marla Benton – Artist Profile
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Marla Benton earned her education through the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, the Ontario College of Art and Design and Nipissing University. From growing up in a small town, traveling to 41 different countries, building a home inside a pickup truck, enduring a six month journey on a motorcycle, roughing it in…
Alexandra McCurdy is a graduate of NSCAD university (BFA) and the Cardiff Institute of Higher Learning in Wales. A ceramist/printmaker/independent curator, Alexandra works in porcelain making highly decorative, one-of-a-kind, colourful pieces, informed by her longstanding interest in textiles. Alexandra was recently inducted to the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts and has a celebratory show at the David Kaye Gallery in Toronto Ontario from October 01 through 25.