Banff National Park Gallery of Fine Art and Photography
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Barbara Tipton Exhibition and Artist Statement |
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Cup/Image |
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Barbara Tipton is an expressive and innovative ceramic artist, who explores the aesthetic as well as technical elements of clay. Her Cup/Image body of work offers up pieces that will amuse, inspire, and educate. Barb reveals that most of her “sculptural objects center around the idea of the cup and saucer. These works originated as wheel-thrown forms, altered and assembled, but this evolved into drawing on the surface of paper clay slabs and forming them intuitively into three-dimensional shapes. Many of the works retain their visual identity as cup and saucer; others retain those origins only marginally as various implied narratives take over. Whatever the outcome, my aim is not to be too specific, and I’m pleased when a certain amount of ambiguity creeps in.”
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| Blue Swell, 2009 | ||
| ceramic scultpure | ||
| 3 1/2 x 3 1/2" (9x9cm) | ||
$250.00 CDN
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| Red and Green Fold, 2009 | ||
| ceramic sculpture | ||
| 3 1/2 x 3 1/2" (9x9cm) | ||
$250.00 CDN
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| Three Blues, 2009 | ||
| ceramic sculpture | ||
| 3 1/2 x 4 1/8" (9x10.5cm) | ||
$250.00 CDN
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| Gone to Ground, 2009 | ||
| ceramic wall piece | ||
| 11 1/2 x 10 1/4" (29x26cm) | ||
$850.00 CDN
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| Leap 2, 2009 | ||
| ceramic wall piece | ||
| 10 5/8 x 7 7/8" (27x20cm) | ||
| Note: invitation piece, page 1 | ||
$750.00 CDN
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| Cup with Two Reds, 2009 | ||
| ceramic sculpture | ||
| 5 1/2 x 8" (14x20cm) | ||
$550.00 CDN SOLD
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| Delft Extract, 2009 | ||
| ceramic sculpture | ||
| 4 3/4 x 7 1/2" (12x19cm) | ||
SOLD
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| Flamingo Dip, 2009 | ||
| ceramic sculpture | ||
| 4 1/2 x 8 1/8" (11.5x20.5 cm) | ||
SOLD
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Statement |
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For most of my artistic life, I’ve made objects for daily use as well as objects intended primarily for the eye and mind. Both serve fulfilling aspects for my role as an artist, and again, the process of making each type of work reinforces and informs the making of the other. Pots thrown on the wheel generally approach a country aesthetic, being simply constructed, sometimes drawn on, soda glazed and/or wood fired. Most of my sculptural objects center around the idea of the cup and saucer. These works originated as wheel-thrown forms, altered and assembled, but this evolved into drawing on the surface of paper clay slabs and forming them intuitively into three-dimensional shapes. Many of the works retain their visual identity as cup and saucer; others retain those origins only marginally as various implied narratives take over. Whatever the outcome, my aim is not to be too specific, and I’m pleased when a certain amount of ambiguity creeps in. Over the years I’ve discovered there’s quite a lot of freedom in working around a single theme. With a central image in mind I can press thick slabs by hand, employ marking tools, bisque press molds, or form thick shapes and join them. As the clay changes, I attempt to catch it at the right moment; I’m constantly on the lookout for something that seems to ring true as an expression, a sidelong glance, a dim remembrance. —Barbara Tipton, Calgary 2009
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| Small Cup with Red Black Diagonal | ||
| handbuilt, multifired | ||
| 3.5 x 3.5" | ||
$150.00 CDN
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| Clouds and Waves, 2007 | ||
| handbuilt paperclay, fired and refired to cone 04-05 | ||
| 10x7.5" (25.5 x 19 cm) | ||
$450.00 CDN
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| Kat's China Vines, Cup and Saucer Wall Piece, 2008 | ||
| handbuilt, fired with slips and glazes to cone 04, transfers | ||
| 8x6x2.5" | ||
$425.00 CDN
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| Blue Cup with Faint Transfer, 2008 | ||
| wheel-thrown, handbuilt, multifired | ||
| 4x8x7.5" | ||
$325.00 CDN
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| Little Blue on Blue, 2008 | ||
| handbuilt cup and saucer, multiple slips and glazes | ||
| 3.5 x 4" | ||
$150.00 CDN
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Barbara's practice includes an interest in ceramic history, which is evident throughout her work. For her, one approach is to develop or bring forward an idea or technique embedded in history. She leaves whispers of historical content for us to decipher. We are challenged, as the viewer, since we see these works through the filter of her unique, contemporary vocabulary.
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