Falk, Gathie
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Falk, Gathie
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Biography
Gathie Falk was born in Alexander MB, in 1928. After hard times in the prairies, her family moved to Vancouver in 1947. She attended UBC in the 1950s and taught in schools for 12 years. She studied ceramics with Glenn Lewis at the Faculty of Education 1964-67. She taught sculptural ceramics in 1970 at the UBC Fine Arts Department, and was their LAST ceramic instructor, teaching pottery from 1974-76.
Gathie Falk went on to become one of the most celebrated artists in Canada, working as a multimedia, interdisciplinary, installation, performance, painter, and video artist. Her work has been exhibited worldwide and she has received many national awards. She worked with Glenn Lewis - on videos and performances - and was associated with the Western Front. The Equinox Gallery in Vancouver featured Gathie’s work many times. She was a member of the Potters Guild of BC, and exhibited with them a number of times in the 1960s and 70s. Some of her pottery was included in the famed 'Thrown' exhibition at UBC in 2004.
She is renowned for elevating our perception of everyday objects and her often surreal point of view. She garnered great acclaim with the public for her legendary ceramic artworks - colourful pyramids of fruit, hanging cabbages, shoes in cabinets, and ceramic picnic tableaux, which were deeply attractive and affecting, while being enigmatic.
Gathie Falk went on to become one of the most celebrated artists in Canada, working as a multimedia, interdisciplinary, installation, performance, painter, and video artist. Her work has been exhibited worldwide and she has received many national awards. She worked with Glenn Lewis - on videos and performances - and was associated with the Western Front. The Equinox Gallery in Vancouver featured Gathie’s work many times. She was a member of the Potters Guild of BC, and exhibited with them a number of times in the 1960s and 70s. Some of her pottery was included in the famed 'Thrown' exhibition at UBC in 2004.
She is renowned for elevating our perception of everyday objects and her often surreal point of view. She garnered great acclaim with the public for her legendary ceramic artworks - colourful pyramids of fruit, hanging cabbages, shoes in cabinets, and ceramic picnic tableaux, which were deeply attractive and affecting, while being enigmatic.
First name
Gathie
Last name
Falk
Date of Birth
1928
Place of Birth
Alexander, Manitoba
Studio location
Formal Education
Major Exhibitions
See CV https://www.equinoxgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Falk-Gathie-CV.pdf
1980 Retrospect Ceramics 80, PGBC, 25th Anniversary
2000 Retrospective at the Vancouver Art Gallery, (Retrospective Exhibition travelling to the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON; Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, MB; Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS; Musee des Beaux Arts de Montreal, Montreal, QC
2004 'Thrown, Influences and intentions of West Coast Ceramics' , Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery , UBC, curated Scott Watson.
2020/21 Modern in the Making, Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia, 1940-75, Daina Augaitis, Allan Collier, Stephanie Rebick
2020/21 Playing With Fire, Ceramics of the Extraordinary, MOA, curated Dr. Carol E Mayer
Collections
Toronto Dominion Bank, Vancouver.
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Government of British Columbia, Victoria
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
CBC Collection, Vancouver
Rothmans Art Gallery, Stratford,
Ottawa Canada Council Art Bank,
Vancouver Department of External Affairs
Vancouver Art Gallery
U.B.C. Faculty Club
Affiliated organizations
Links to Further Resources
2020/22 Translation and Appropriation Mingei Theory, Bernard Leach and his Vancouver Apprentices, PhD Alexandra Lambley Clark, Falmouth University. UK
2020/21 https://vanartgallery.vag.yourcultureconnect.com
2013 Audain Prize Lifetime Achievement of the Visual Arts
2009 Thrown, British Columbian Apprentices of Bernard Leach, and their Contemporaries, Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, UBC publication , Naomi Sawada, Scott Watson
https://www.equinoxgallery.com/our-artists/gathie-falk/
https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/gathie-falk/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gathie_Falk
2003 Governor General Award in Visual Arts
2002 Order of British Columbia
1997 Order of Canada
1990 Gershon Iskowitz Prize
Source
Debra E. Sloan
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