Ceramics Friends: 5th Virginia McClure Ceramic Biennale

A celebration of friendship as working method, featuring five artist duos who collaborate in clay

Curated by Meredith Carruthers and Susannah Wesley (Leisure), Ceramics Friends highlights community building, friendship and creative interrelation through clay. This edition, the fifth in a planned series of five biennales, presents the works of five artist duos who work in friendship, engaging with clay as a shared conceptual material. Expanding the notion of ceramics beyond produced objects, the curators focused on the communal aspects of ceramics work within a studio setting, and the care, resilience, and collaboration this generates.

The exhibition features ceramic sculpture and installation, and public programming events for all ages, including a foraged clay workshop for families, a workshop in collaboration with Rozynski Art Centre in the Eastern Townships, a round table with participating artists at Concordia University’s Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology, and much more. The McClure Gallery thanks the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and the Canada Council for the Arts for their support of this project.

Artists: 
Emii Alrai and Eve Tagny, Marie-Michelle Deschamps and Celia Perrin Sidarous, Heather Goodchild and Margaux Smith, August Klintberg (Associate Professor, Liberal Studies)  and Benny Nemer with Rosalie Namer, Leisure (Meredith Carruthers and Susannah Wesley)

Meredith Carruthers et Susannah Wesley, The Ceremony, 2021. Photo: Elise Windsor.