iGardiner MuseumQueen's Park / University of Toronto
After the Island: Caribbean Canadian Ceramics
PJ Anderson, Eddy Firmin, Manuel Mathieu and Sharon Norwood use clay to explore Caribbean diaspora memory, identity and belonging, in partnership with BAND and MoAD.
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Sharon Norwood's installations are built from salvaged Savannah Grey bricks that still carry the fingerprints of the enslaved people who made them. They are one of four bodies of work here by artists with Caribbean roots, put together by the Gardiner and Black Artists' Networks in Dialogue (BAND).
Eddy Firmin contributes rotating ceramic punching bags, a ceramic figure in a boat and an interactive video game. Manuel Mathieu's Shhrine mixes metal, canvas, ceramics and scent. PJ Anderson shows Claw Forms, a group of ceramic sculptures, and smoke-fired vessels set with beads and jewels. Chief curator Sequoia Miller says clay carries cultural reference points, from the earth as a physical or spiritual quest to the decorative art of daily life.
Admission is $18 and includes the exhibition. It is free for visitors 18 and under, Indigenous visitors, and everyone on Wednesdays after 4 pm. BAND plans workshops, panel discussions and guided tours during the run, which ends on 25 April 2027.
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PJ Anderson, Eddy Firmin, Manuel Mathieu and Sharon Norwood use clay to work through Caribbean diaspora memory, identity and belonging.
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Norwood's brick installations
Salvaged Savannah Grey bricks marked with the fingerprints of the enslaved makers, shown next to her ceramics with a curly-line motif.
Firmin's Punching X
Ceramic punching bags that rotate, in the same room of work as his ceramic figure in a boat, Sans signe.
Firmin's video game
An interactive video game installation, the one piece in the show you operate yourself.
Mathieu's Shhrine
A mixed-media installation of metal, canvas and ceramics that also works through scent.
Anderson's Claw Forms
Ceramic sculptures shown alongside smoke-fired vessels decorated with beads and jewels.
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- Evening Visits
- Teenagers
With kids
Free for visitors 18 and under. Firmin's installation includes an interactive video game.
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- After the Island: Caribbean Canadian CeramicsCourtesy of Gardiner Museum
- Psychedelics: Art. Culture. Science.Courtesy of Royal Ontario Museum
- Crawford Lake: Layers in Time© Craig Smith, 2023
- Critical Minerals: Critical Choices©ROM
- Gardiner Museumremundo via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Royal Ontario MuseumMaksim Sokolov (Maxergon), Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Art Museum at the University of TorontoUnderline Studio, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Bata Shoe MuseumCanmenwalker / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
- Textile Museum of CanadaRaysonho @ Open Grid Scheduler / Grid Engine, via Wikimedia Commons, CC0