Wong, Andrew (Snr)
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Wong, Andrew (Snr)
Biography
Andrew Wong (Snr) attended UBC in the 1970s, teacher, Glenn Lewis, and had a studio in Maple Ridge, BC. He built an oil-fired cross-draft kiln in the early 1970s. After traveling in Japan and South China, he built a high-fire wood kiln in 1981 styled after the Jindezhen and Thai Anagama kilns. He extended the kiln in 1987.
( 1970s, in Mission BC. Mark Tigges photo - is this the oil fired kiln?)
Andrew moved to the Interior in the late 1980s/early 1990s.
His fine salt fired work was shown at the House of Ceramics and in several important exhibitions.
( 1970s, in Mission BC. Mark Tigges photo - is this the oil fired kiln?)
Andrew moved to the Interior in the late 1980s/early 1990s.
His fine salt fired work was shown at the House of Ceramics and in several important exhibitions.
First name
Andrew
Last name
Wong
Career dates (start and end)
1973
Studio location
Formal Education
Major Exhibitions
2013 High Fire Culture; Locating Leach/Hamada in West Coast Studio Pottery at Satellite Gallery. (Belkin) Norah Vaillant curator.
2005 25th Annivweary of the Richmond Art Gallery - 1980-2005
1983 Made by Hand exhibition, Craft Council of BC.
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Links to Further Resources
2014 image of Pottery Kiln
Andrew Wong's small anagama kiln. Photographer Mark Tigges states that it might be one of the earliest wood-fired kilns in British Columbia and now disused for some 20 years.
Andrew Wong's small anagama kiln. Photographer Mark Tigges states that it might be one of the earliest wood-fired kilns in British Columbia and now disused for some 20 years.
2013 https://www.gallerieswest.ca/magazine/stories/%22high-fire-culture%3A-locating-leachhamada-in-west-coast-studi/
2008 "Thrown, British Columbia's Apprentices of Bernard Leach and their Contemporaries;, Scott Watson, Naomi Sawada, Charmian Johnson, UBC, Belkin
25th Anniversary exhibition of the Richmond Art Gallery (RAG)
Exhibition October 14 - November 23, 2005
Richmond Art Gallery, 180 - 770 Minoru Gate, Richmond
ISBN 0-9736574-2-1, 72 pages, paperback, illust. colour/b&w
Text by Corrine Corry, Michelle Gewertz, Carie Helm, Robin Lawrence
Includes biographies for "25 Years - 25 Artists" exhibitors
Exhibition October 14 - November 23, 2005
Richmond Art Gallery, 180 - 770 Minoru Gate, Richmond
ISBN 0-9736574-2-1, 72 pages, paperback, illust. colour/b&w
Text by Corrine Corry, Michelle Gewertz, Carie Helm, Robin Lawrence
Includes biographies for "25 Years - 25 Artists" exhibitors
Source
Debra E. Sloan
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