Bridget
Fairbank
@bpracticalpottery
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; the ceramic object in relation to its context; and the affective nature of the ceramic object in relation to the self and body. The artists in this exhibition make contemporary ceramics that reconnect us with the material world and each other.
Organized by the Art Gallery of Alberta and co-curated by Lindsey Sharman and Diana Sherlock. This exhibition is presented by the Poole Centre of Design.
https://www.youraga.ca/whats-on/past-exhibitions/between-things-alberta-ceramics
This Way or That Way
Ceramic, 2023
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 one? Are there any other options? The fact that both are flush against the wall rendering them unpassable further complicates the choice they seem to offer and also asks, is it too late to choose either of them?
