Trudy Golley: Winter White
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Bugera Matheson Gallery (New Location) 1B-10110 124 Street, Edmonton, Alberta T5N 1P6
Trudy Golley, "Winter White," 2021
Trudy Golley: Winter White
Trudy Golley’s artistic research focuses on developing and integrating innovative technical processes, digital technologies, and light effects that attract the viewer’s gaze.
Artist Statement
“Working in the interstitial zone between craft-based and sculptural genres, the body of work represented here speaks to conceptual and materially-based research completed over the span of eight artist residencies in Jingdezhen, China—the historical home of porcelain.
In these artworks, traditional ceramic materials and techniques are married with high-tech processes such as software-based digital form design and lustred surfaces delivered through titanium physical vapour deposition (PVD).
The snow-white purity of the highest quality porcelain captivated my imagination, and many of the forms that developed remind me of Prairie snowdrifts and high-altitude sun cups. Often the idea extends beyond the work; whether into space, as with the reflected light effects, or into the realm of ceremonial service.
As important as their visual presence is, many of the functional objects feature a surprise for the hand to find. I believe that both the eye and the hand are owed their satisfaction!” Trudy Golley RCA, IAC
Biographical Notes:
Trudy Golley studied at the Alberta College of Art & Design, and holds degrees majoring in ceramics from the University of Calgary (BFA, 1988) and the University of Tasmania in Hobart, Australia (MFA, 1991).
She is currently based at Red Deer College where she teaches ceramics and foundation design courses, and has hosted international ceramics conferences and visiting artist studio residencies.
Internationally recognized, Trudy Golley has shown her installation-based and functional artworks in solo exhibitions at the Red Deer Museum + Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Winnipeg Art Gallery, The Pottery Workshop and Showroom (HK), and the Muttart Public Art Gallery, as well as through two-person and international invitational group exhibitions in Canada, the USA, Australia, China, Japan, the UK, France, the Netherlands, and Denmark.
The recipient of numerous scholarships, project grants and awards, her artworks and written articles have been published internationally in books and journals. Trudy’s level of achievement and contributions to the field were acknowledged when she was inducted into the International Academy of Ceramics (Geneva) in 2020, the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 2002, and nominated for the prestigious Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts – 2016 Prix Saidye Bronfman Award.