Current Exhibition:
Earth, Fire & Form: A BC Ceramics Celebration.

The BC Potters’ Guild enters its 70th year with its newest exhibition: Earth, Fire and Form: A BC Ceramics Celebration

 

The Il Museo Gallery is privileged to support the remarkable achievement of the Potters’ Guild and their ability to thrive in this province as well as foster remarkable artist merit. Their work ensures that BC has an important place in the history of handcraft, as well as maintaining a significant role in the canon of Art History. The Il Museo Gallery supports visual arts that have an Italian aspect. The formation of artistic guilds has been fundamental to the artistic achievements of Italy throughout history, therefore, as a gallery we are excited to support BC Potters’ Guild and serve as a cultural space which can display, curate and feature exemplary attainments in ceramic skill.

 

There are over 40 works on view in the gallery displaying the best of ceramic creation in BC.  The exhibition runs through to January 15, 2026. The opening event will feature a celebratory welcome by the Curator Dr. Angela Clarke as well as representatives from the BC Potters’ Guild. Additionally, the artists will present to discuss their creative process.

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This exhibition is a unique opportunity to view the broad spectrum of ceramic practice in BC.  As Ying-Yueh Chuang, celebrated BC ceramic artist and jury member notes:

The exhibition showcases a rich spectrum of creativity… Equally diverse were the techniques on display: hand-building in its many forms (pinching, coiling, soft and hard slab construction), wheel throwing, and slip casting. …Some artists explored the quiet elegance of form, while others used surface decoration to tell stories, evoke emotion, or capture texture and light in expressive ways.”

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 Please join us for this celebration of BC artistic achievement.