ANNIE E. BROWN: IN MEMORY is an exploration of past and present intersections; of mourning, loss, and meaning. How do we understand death and in what way is it different or similar from generations past? How can we mark and honour the passage of those we love; to remember them with a sense of love more than loss.
Have we misplaced an honest understanding of grief and acknowledgement of death as being an inevitable part of our existence as expressed by our ancestors? Do we need to challenge our response to death as a part of life in contemporary times? Does it make a difference to how we live our lives if we don’t deny the inevitability of what waits for us all? What are the spiritual lessons we learn from celebrating a life by acknowledging its passing?
 Contemporary work created specifically for this exhibition along with historical materials and artefacts will shed light on our living relationships to the past and to death, using a “true” ghost story involving a Victorian woman named Annie E. Brown as inspiration. The artists in this exhibit create works dealing with memories, cycles of life and understanding, and passages that document the intuitive and conscious journey through life to death.

Featuring work by: Laura Donefer, Karina Guevin, Paul Stankard, Catherine Vamvakas Lay and Tim Whiten

Curated by Virginia Eichhorn, Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery

Essays by Virginia Eichhorn and Rhona Wenger, Director, The Grimsby Public Art Gallery

Catalogues now available at: Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery (Waterloo), The Grimsby Public Art Gallery (Grimsby), Agnes Jameson Gallery (Minden).

French version upcoming: Musee des Maitres et artisans du Quebec (Montreal)

36pp w. col ill. 8” x 8” softcover ISBN 978-0-09784886-2-8

$20.00 Can/$18.00 USD plus shipping + tax

Ornamenta

Artist: Lyndal Osborne

Co-curators: Virginia Eichhorn & Linda Jansma

For almost four decades, Lyndal Osborne has collected, ordered, classified and studied the world around her. She collects shells, seeds, plants, rocks and other materials from the natural world as well as fabricated items such as discarded wires, computer remnants, and industrial discards. The (re)ordering that Osborne establishes is based within the realm of the personal yet achieves a vast and great resonance. This publication presents two significant works, Garden and Archipelago and is the fruit of a collaboration with several exhibiting galleries. Two essays elucidate the artist’s concerns about the interaction of biotechnology with the land and related issues. Born in Australia in 1940, Osborne has lived in Canada for many years and has exhibited throughout the country.

Catalogue available at: The Robert McLaughlin Gallery (Oshawa), the Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery (Waterloo), Penticton Art Gallery (Penticton), Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery (Moose Jaw), Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre (Medicine Hat). (06/08) 48 pp 16 col. ill. 10.5 x 8.5 softcover ISBN 978-0-921500-93-3. Distributed by ABC: Art Books Canada.

$15.00 Can./ $19.95 U.S./ 12 euros) plus shipping + tax.

Artist: Ted Goodden

On the surface, Ted Goodden's book, Glory Boy, reads like a cautionary tale. It is the simple story of a "do-nothing" boy and the fate that befalls him. Yet it also possesses a more protean quality that touches each reader individually.

Gert, the 12-year old protagonist, is at odds with his mother and father. He is a daydreamer, always in trouble, not for anything he's done but on account of all the things he doesn't do. Gert appreciates the glory in the natural world around him. His parents, on the other hand, work and worry, and are generally at odds with what to do with such a boy.

Prematurely thrust out into the world, Gert happily retreats into the forest, a place where everything he needs is there for the taking. Ultimately, however, he falls prey to the harsh realities of winter. As Goodden points out, "reality bites, sooner, or later." Cold, hungry, and alone, Gert follows tracks in the snow to find comfort. He meets Anna: spinner, weaver, and alchemist, and is seduced by her talents. Anna, in return, recognizes Gert's ability to see glory. Gert becomes useful, but tips the scales, beyond purpose, into obsession.

Available at: The Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery, Oxford Books - Mandala Book Shop - The Last Word - New Millennium. Printed in Canada by The Aylmer Express Ltd., Fine Print Division. Photographs by Walter Eldridge, John Tamblyn and Roland Schubert. Back cover photo by John Simmons. ISBN 0-9689835-0-2. Distributed By Hushion House

$20.00 Can./U.S. (16 euros) plus shipping + tax.

Artist: Mary Anne Barkhouse

Barkhouse’s sculptural work examines environmental concerns and indigenous culture through the use of animal imagery.

Catalogue available at: Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Agnes Jamieson Gallery, Thames Art Gallery, Gallery Stratford, Art Gallery of Sudbury. Curator: Linda Jansma. 64 pp 16 col. ill. 9 x 7 in softcover ISBN: 978-0-921500-85-8.

$20.00 Can./U.S. (16 euros) plus shipping + tax

Artist: Judy Chicago

A full catalogue with essay by David Revere McFadden, Chief Curator of the Museum of Art and Design in New York,. This survey demonstrates her tremendous versatility, technical brilliance and creative inventiveness qualities that make her one of the most exciting artists of today.

$10.00 plus shipping + tax

Artists: Joseph Hubbard

Essays by Virginia Eichhorn, Gil McElroy

20 pages in full colour

8.5 inches by 11 inches

$10.00 plus shipping + tax

Artist: Shary Boyle

Shary Boyle has been creating works for several years now that are disturbing, compelling ad beautiful. A Toronto-based multimedia artist, Boyle works concurrently in drawing, painting, sculpture, performance and installation. She uses images and imagery of childhood and adolescence, exploring issues of power, gender, sexuality and dysfunction.

The Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery. Curator: Virginia Eichhorn, Curator. 22 pp 12 col. ill. 8 x 7.5 in softcover ISBN: 978-0-9784886-I-I.

$15.00 Can. plus shipping + tax

Artists: Stuart Reid

Essays by Virginia Eichhorn & Donald Brackett

48 pages in full colour

8.25 inches by 11.5 inches

$10.00 plus shipping + tax

Artist: Josh Simpson

Essay by Virginia Eichhorn

24 pages in full colour

5.25 x 7 inches

$10.00 plus shipping + tax

Artists:Roger Aksadjuak, Pierre Aupilardjuk, John Kurok, Yvo Samgushak, Lucy Sanertanut,Jack Nuviak and Leo Napayok

Essay by Virginia Eichhorn and Jim Shirley

33 pages in full colour

8.75 x 8.75 inches

$15.00 plus shipping+ tax

Artists: Tim Whiten

Essay by Virginia Eichhorn, Curator

20 pages in full colour

5.5 inches by 7 inches

$10.00 plus shipping + tax

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Artists: Brent Bukowski and Kathryn Ward

Essay by Virginia Eichhorn

15 pages, colour
(cover different than shown)

7.5 " x 10"

$12.00 plus shipping + tax

Artist: Alex Hui Man Yeung and many historical unknown artists/artisans and two sand painters Venerables Tenzin Thutop and Lobsang Gyaltsen

Essay by Virginia Eichhorn

48 pages in full colour

5.5 inches by 7 inches

$15.00 plus shipping + tax

Artists: Christian Bernard Singer

Essay by Virginia Eichhorn, Curator

16 pages in full colour

8.5 inches by 11 inches

$10.00 plus shipping + tax

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Artists: Carl Beam, Ann Beam and Anong Migwans Beam

Essay by Virginia Eichhorn

14 pages full colour

9 inches by 9 inches

$15.00 plus shipping + tax