Category Archives: Sculpture

Ghost

Cast Porcelain and Charred White Oak
30” width x 14” height x 14” depth
CAN$5000

The piece is now available to view in the Cabin.
David Robinson will be our Artist in Residence later this year.

David Robinson is a highly respected Vancouver mixed media artist, working in ceramic, wood, metal, and gypsum. His sculptures depict stories from the earth, from folklore and mythology; often in conversation with modern subcultures. He holds a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, is an arts educator at The Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, and works from his Chinatown studio. His sculpture and installation works are exhibited in galleries in Canada and internationally. Robinson’s work is often incorporated in St. Marie Art + Design and Good Animal design group. He is currently assisting with Artist Link Leisure on this Summer 2015 installation for The Glastonbury Music Festival’s Shangri-La Interaction and Public Art Installation (http://www.shangrilaglastonbury.co.uk/)

He believes through creating and altering examples of natural beauty, he is both
exploring & envisioning the divinity of the organic world.

GHOST:

Robinson’s great great great grandfather was the noted explorer and aristocrat John Fall Allison, of Allison’s Pass, British Columbia. He was the first European settler in the area and the founder of Vermillian Bluffs, which later became the town of Princeton, BC. Around 1920, John Falls son, the youngest of fourteen children, Alfred Stratton Allison took this white-tailed deer down, while hunting with his brothers, near the Similkameen Valley River. The rack was mounted at the Princeton Homestead, where it had remained as a prized family heirloom for almost a Century.

The sculpture was recreated from a 15 piece plaster mould, which was constructed over two years. Robinson was very enthusiastic to work with this treasured family artefact. Honoured to beautify this iconic animal form by: “altering, queering and exhibiting the work with exaltation and representation of fragile beauty”.

Contact:

Artist Atelier
DMR Ceramics
729 Gore Ave.
Vancouver, BC, V6A 2Z9
Mobile 778 709 3163
Facebook DMR Ceramics
Instagram@dmrceramics

Work in progress

Jesse Tøso of Tøso Woodworks is working at the Sugar Cube Space turning this:

into this:

The beautiful planting is from Nicole, our favourite Girl in the Garden. The tree is a snake skin maple and we look forward to watching it grow.

We await the finished deck / sundial and look forward to Phase II – the viewing platform, suspended high in the mighty cedar. The cedar now houses a visiting owl and is a fixed point in measuring our position in the Earth’s rotational axis. The exact timing may be slightly awry but we are confident that proportionally it is entirely correct.

Sculpture Park

Thank you to Jesse Toso for bringing driftwood from Tofino to make our temporary sculpture park.

David Stevens

Dave Stevens is an accomplished and prolific artist, educator & activist. From Treewind, his studio in Delta, Dave produces drawings, paintings, illustrations & sculptures. From the vibrant and brilliant Arbutus series:

Arbutus Grove

Oil on canvas. 48″x24″

The artist says:

It contains some of the elements of a Canadian landscape, the trees in the foreground and the sky, but it is simplified to allow for different responses. Removing the leaves, berries and bark of the trees leaves them open to other interpretations, such as arteries, veins and capillaries. So what’s outside in the landscape could also be what’s carried inside each of us as human beings.

For more information about the artist please click here.

We were lucky to have Dave as Artist in Residence in November.

Alano Edzerza

alano

We are delighted that Alano Edzerza’s work will be shown in the gallery this Winter. Alano’s work is at the cutting edge of Northwest Coast Art, extending its boundaries in terms of technique, medium & message.

For more information about the artist click here.

Return of the Stump Artist

Jesse Toso

Jesse Toso, our favourite chain-saw artist is coming back for another week of carving – dates to be confirmed.

Jesse Toso

Jesse Toso picked up the chainsaw for the first time at Campbell River Shoreline Arts Society’s Annual “Transformations on the Shore” Chainsaw Carving Competition in 2005 and hasn’t looked back.

It was magical to watch this little bear emerge from the wood.

If you ever wondered how to carve a dragon, Jesse can demonstrate:

For more information, visit Jesse’s website.