I am happy to announce that I am participating in Earth Matters, the 2010 NCECA Invitational exhibition in Philadelphia. The show, installed at the Galleries at Moore, Moore College of Art and Design, opened on March 13 and runs until April 10, coinciding with the 44th annual NCECA conference, March 31 to April 3. I [...]
Category Archives: Devastatus Rememorari
Installing in Altona
May 14, 2009 – 11:21 am
A couple of photos taken while installing work in Gallery in the Park, Altona. The show will be open on Friday, May 15.
Seeing the Forest for the Trees
April 27, 2009 – 9:35 pm
Nickel’s elegy of ceramics, salt, text, reflects on ruin of Juan, reconstruction
By Elissa Barnard, Arts Reporter, Halifax Chronicle Herald, May 22, 2008
Manitoba artist Grace Nickel was amazed when she took her first walk in Point Pleasant Park in August 2006.
“It was incredibly moving and powerful. It still surprises me every time, just the scale of [...]
Devastatus Rememorari
May 12, 2008 – 12:29 pm
Grace Nickel’s Ceramic Memorial to Point Pleasant Park. April 11 to May 25, 2008, Mary E. Black Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Devastatus Rememorari, 2008, dimensions 2 m × 3.5 m × 7.5 m, porcelain (with terra sigillata, oxide, and glaze), salt.
Text and photographs from the exhibition catalogue Foreword – Susan MacAlpine Foshay, Director, Mary E. Black Gallery
Devastatus Rememorari – Sandra Alfoldy PhD
Artist’s [...]
Devastatus Rememorari: Artist’s Statement
May 12, 2008 – 12:29 pm
Grace Nickel
In my current work I am investigating the concept of devastated trees, damaged through natural phenomena such as floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, or age, and also trees destroyed through human intervention. I have been collecting the remains of trees that have been broken, eroded, stripped of their bark, and cut. In my studio, these fragments [...]
Devastatus Rememorari: Biography
May 12, 2008 – 12:29 pm
Grace Nickel is an award-winning ceramic artist, having been successful in the Mino Competition in Japan, the Golden Ceramics Awards in Taiwan, and the Fletcher Challenge Award in New Zealand. Nickel has been an Artist In Residence in Australia, Canada, China, and Taiwan and has attended three residency programs at the Banff Centre for the [...]
Devastatus Rememorari: Foreword
May 12, 2008 – 12:29 pm
Susan MacAlpine Foshay Director, Mary E. Black Gallery
We are extremely fortunate to show the work of Grace Nickel, an internationally respected Winnipeg ceramic artist, here in Halifax.
With sensitivity and perspective beyond many of us who were in Halifax at the time, Grace’s exhibition, Devastatus Rememorari, memorializes Point Pleasant Park in the wake of Hurricane Juan, [...]
Devastatus Rememorari: An Installation by Grace Nickel
May 12, 2008 – 12:29 pm
Sandra Alfoldy PhD
Grace Nickel’s Devastatus Rememorari is deceptive. As you enter the hushed gallery space the installation invites you in through its quiet elegance. The abstracted tree shapes, arranged in a grouping that floats on its salty surface, are at first ephemeral. It is only as you come closer that you realize Nickel’s work is [...]
Happy Spring!
March 21, 2008 – 2:37 pm
Hello everyone,
If you’re wondering what I’ve been “up” to in Halifax lately, here’s a recent studio shot for you to look at. My MFA exhibition at the Mary E. Black Gallery will be up exactly three weeks from today on April 11, with the opening reception taking place on April 17 at 6:00 p.m.
Wishing you [...]