Banff National Park Gallery of Fine Art and Photography
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John Chalke - Fine Art Ceramics |
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FINE ART PIECES |
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| Half Chrysalis | ||
| handformed and fired in 2003; resurfaced/reglazed 2007 to cone 04-5 | ||
| 16x7x2.5" | ||
$1800.00 CDN
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| "...Chalke
challenges the pot in a significantly different way. Chalke is the
punster potter, the craftsman still challenging his craft in exploratory
directions....more deferential to an oriental-cum funky approach to his
material and surfaces, curiously alternating obeisance and denial of an
illustrious tradition."
Ricardo Gomez. "Western Canadian Ceramic Sculpture: A Ten Year Perspective." Issues in Clay: Western Canadian Sculpture. Edmonton: Latitude 53 Society of Artists, 1982:14.
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| Squared Twice | ||
| ceramic wall piece | ||
| 5 x 9.5 x 2.5" | ||
$600.00 CDN
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| Pink and Petroglyphs | ||
| ceramic wall piece | ||
| 4x8.5x2" | ||
$600.00 CDN
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"Hips and haws are bursting with scarlet. Gentle days they may be but everything turns to food and appetites, like the edge to the air, are keen. Even the trees are sucking goodness from their leaves before they turn and fall." (Paul Evans, "Nature Watch," The Guardian, October 3-9, 2008, 42).
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| Ice Crack at Alpenglow, 2008 | ||
| handformed, multiglazed, multifired to cone 04-05 | ||
| 8x13.5x3" | ||
$1500.00 CDN
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John Chalke, in 2000, received the Governor General's Award, the most prestigious arts honour in Canada. In 2006, work similar to this piece, was purchased by the Canadian Museum of Civilization and Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. John's work is included in many other public collections, and has been featured in more than 270 exhibitions, 36 books and several films. John is best known for his thirty-year exploration of visually adventurous and technically exotic glazes.
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| Where the River Bends, 2008 | ||
| handformed, multiglazed, multifired to cone 04-05 | ||
| 8.5 x 13 x 2" | ||
$1500.00 CDN
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| January Portal, 2008 | ||
| handformed, multiglazed, multifired to cone 04-05 | ||
| 9.5 x 8 x 2" | ||
$1100.00 CDN
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| White Plate with Double Circle | ||
| hand formed, multiglazed, multifired | ||
| 10.5 x 11.5 x 1.5" | ||
$950.00 CDN
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| Clouds and Sun, 2004 | ||
| hand formed, multiglazed, multifired | ||
| ovoid dark copper green with orange | ||
| 13x11.5x2" | ||
$950.00 CDN
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Frequent exposure in the Rocky Mountain foothills to varying sun, wind and snowy conditions … clays and glazes generate thoughts of glacial lakes, drying prairie sloughs, river banks, patterns of farming … intimate views or grand sweeps …
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| Green Square and Red Square, 2007 | ||
| handbuilt pod form, multiglaze and multifired to cone 04-05 | ||
| 8 x 7 x 2.5" | ||
$450.00 CDN
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"The real reason for making art, I think, is because it didn't work out, and then you go back to square one or square three or some square..." John Chalke (Collins, 9)
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