Alexandra McCurdy
Alexandra McCurdy Ceramics
516 Tower Road
Halifax, NS B3H 2X3
Please call ahead.
Alexandra McCurdy, ceramist/printmaker/independent curator, and newly inducted member of the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts in 2015, is a graduate of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (BFA) and the Cardiff Institute of Higher Learning in Wales (Masters in 3D Design-Ceramics). She was an Associate Curator of Ceramics at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia for six years, and has shown her work both nationally and internationally. Her most notable solo exhibitions include the The Ties That Bind at the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery in Waterloo, Ontario, and two solo traveling exhibitions; Mothers/Daughters, which originated at Halifax’s Mary E. Black Gallery, and S.O.S: Sources of Support, originating at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, which traveled to the Confederation Centre for the Arts, PEI and to the Burlington Arts Centre, Ontario. She has just concluded a touring retrospective exhibition called The Fabric of Clay at the Burlington Art Centre in Ontario, travelling to Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery in Nova Scotia, and the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in New Brunswick.
Alexandra ’s work is in the permanent collections of the International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza, Italy; the Burlington Art Centre, Ontario; the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, New Brunswick; the Victoria Art Gallery, British Columbia; Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery, Nova Scotia; the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Ontario; the Canadiana Fund and the Royal Ontario Museum; the Gardiner Museum; the Art Bank of Nova Scotia; the Nova Scotia Museum; the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and of the Nova Scotia Designer Crafts Council. As well, her work is in numerous private collections.
Reviews of her work and articles about her career have been included in ceramic-focused periodicals including Australia's prestigious Ceramics:Art and Perception, American Ceramics, Ceramics Monthly from the US, and Canada's Contact, Fusion, Arts Atlantic, Ontario Craft, and Visual Arts Nova Scotia.
Phone: 902 423-2323 (home) • 902 489-2744 (cell)
Email: amccurdy2@aol.com Website: http://www.amccurdyceramics.ca
I am happy to give workshops on surface decoration.
Recent News
2019 Awarded Best Body of Work at the Craft Nova Scotia Christmas Market by juror Aiofe MacNamara, new president of NSCAD
2019 Accepted as a member of the International Academy of Ceramics - Click here to see Alex’s page and the pages of other IAC members
2019 Accepted to the juried 10th Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale 2019 Korea Video for Korean International Ceramic Biennale Click here
2019 Accepted to the Marion McCain Contemporary Atlantic Art Exhibition at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton, New Brunswick, curated by Tom Smart
2019 Accepted to the Fusion: Ontario Clay and Glass Association, travelling exhibition, juried by Denis Longchamps and Katrina Chaytor.
2019 Two works purchased by the Nova Scotia Art Bank
Galleries
Black Box with Shells
Porcelain.
15X15X15cm
Photo: Steve Farmer
Oh Canada Black Box
Porcelain, 15X15X15cm
Photo: Steve Farmer
Onwards Ever, Backwards Never
Porcelain, garnets
15X15X15cm
Photo: Steve Farmer
Polka Dot Covered Jar and Bowl
White stoneware, coloured underglazes, transparent glaze over top
Photo: Steve Farmer