Grace Nickel Ceramic Artist

A Quiet Passage

A Quiet Passage, installation view Terminus a Quo Terminus a Quo, detail Terminus ad Quem Terminus ad Quem, detail Terminus Ultimus Terminus Ultimus, detail Light Sconce #1 Light Sconce #1, detail Light Sconce #2 Light Sconce #3 Light Sconce #4 Light Sconce #5 Light Sconce #6 Light Sconce #7 Intermediate Terminus #1 Intermediate Terminus #2 Intermediate Terminus #3

A Quiet Passage, an installation of light sconces and terminus-form columns in clay and glass, was on exhibition at the Winnipeg Art Gallery from April 18 to July 22, 2002.

You can also see a photographic VR panorama of the installation (requires QuickTime).

An article on my solo exhibition A Quiet Passage, 2002, appears in Ceramics Art and Perception (summer 2003, no. 52, pp 87–80), an international ceramics magazine from Australia. The article includes photos and the essay written by curator Helen Delacretaz for the exhibition catalogue.

Grace Nickel: A Quiet Passage cover Grace Nickel: A Quiet Passage exhibition catalogue is available at the Winnipeg Art Gallery Shoppes, Amazon.ca, Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk.

From Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary:

terminus \Ter''mi*nus\, n.;pl. Termini. [L.]
1. Literally, a boundary; a border; a limit.
2. (Myth.) The Roman divinity who presided over boundaries, whose statue was properly a short pillar terminating in the bust of a man, woman, satyr, or the like, but often merely a post or stone stuck in the ground on a boundary line.
3. Hence, any post or stone marking a boundary; a term.

Photography by Ernest Mayer. Courtesy of the Winnipeg Art Gallery.