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FIREWORKS 2023

Clay and Glass Artists

Alison Brannen

Ann Randeraad

Bruce Cochrane

Catharina Goldnau

Dana Dallal

Darlene Pratt

Debra Sloan

Francois Grenier

Gordon Boyd

Hannah Johnson

Jason Schiedel

Jennifer Kelly

Jocelyn Jenkins

Joon Hee Kim

Judith Morsink

Kate Lemieux

Keenan O'Toole

Keith Campbell

Kim Ross

Lindsay Gravelle

Luke Pestl

Mary Louise White

Nadia Tasci

Nikola Wojewoda

Paula Cooley

Peidi Wang

Queenie Xu

Silvana Michetti

Siobhan Lynch

Sydni Weatherson

Talia Silva

Victoria Guy

Zara Gardener

Zoë Pinnell

The tradition of the FIREWORKS exhibitions started 40 years ago. Held every two years, FIREWORKS has come to symbolize the best in contemporary clay and glass by FUSION members and is displayed in galleries throughout Ontario. 

FUSION is pleased to welcome Owen Johnson and Marc Egan as this year's jurors.  

For the first time, visual artists are invited to participate in the Neilson Park Creative Centre exhibition from February 27 - March 19, 2023. Visual art pieces for the Neilson Park Creative Centre will be curated by a FUSION committee led by Adeline La.

Click here for the FIREWORKS '23 Catalogue Clay and Glass Art

Galleries for FIREWORKS '23

  • Neilson Park Creative Centre - February 27 to March 19 ​ (joint exhibition with juried visual artist)

  • The Gardiner Museum Shop  - April 4 to July 3

  • The Art Gallery of Burlington - July 9 to August 25

  • The Rails End Gallery - September 8 - to November 1. 

FUSION is pleased to offer the following awards for FUSION members:

  • $1000 for Best in Show funded by the Henry Goodman Fund

  • $500 gift certificate from Tucker's

  • $500 gift certificate from PSH

  • Gardiner Museum Award

  • Craft Ontario Award 

Awards were presented at FUSIONFEST at the Gardiner Museum on Wednesday, May 31 from 6- 8 p.m.

 

Click here to see the 2023 recipients.

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Meet the Jurors!

FUSION thanks Marc Egan and Owen Johnson for jurying the 2023 FIREWORKS Travelling Exhibition, as well as Adeline La jurying Visual Art submissions.

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Ceramicist

Marc Egan

Marc Egan studied ceramics at Sheridan College School of Craft and Design, Oakville, Ontario. For over 30 years he has maintained a studio in Toronto producing pottery, ceramic sculpture, and tile. Egan currently teaches in the ceramics department at Sheridan College, Oakville, and occasionally leads workshops in ceramic surface design and glaze chemistry. Egan has undertaken both national and international artist residencies and is the recipient of many grants and awards including the Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramics (2003). His work is in numerous private collections as well as the collections of the Gardiner Museum and Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, and the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo-

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Glass Artist

Owen Johnson

Owen Johnson is a Toronto based glass artist and sculptor, who was born near Melbourne, Australia. He completed a Bachelor of Arts in the Glass Department at the Australian National University, Canberra, and completed an Honours in Visual Art at Monash University. 

 

Johnson began a Ph.D. at the Royal College of Art, United Kingdom in 2010. The project of his research was titled Glass, Pattern and Translation: A Practical Exploration of Decorative Idiom and Material Mistranslation using Glass Murrini. After completing his PhD in 2014, he moved to Canada, becoming an artist in resident at the Harbourfront Centre in Toronto. At the completion of this residency, he took the role of acting studio head of the Glass workshop at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario, where Johnson continues to teach, while continuing to create within his practice.  

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Gardiner Shop Manager

Adelina La

Adeline La has been the Shop Manager at the Gardiner Museum Shop since 2014. Inspired by her father who took the family on various outings to art shows and fairs across Ontario, Adeline enjoys interacting with artists and discovering the stories behind the art. She works to promote local makers and collaborates on feature projects such as exhibitions and artist talks. 

This show is made possible with help from 

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Previous Fireworks Catalogues

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FUSION acknowledges funding support from the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario and from our private sponsors.

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