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Location: C
Title: Shade
Material: Aluminum, Steel, Powder coating

Jordan Shaw is a Toronto-based artist and creative technologist. Educated at Carleton University, Algonquin College, and OCAD University, his artwork focuses on the collaboration between digital systems, emerging technologies, and natural environments. He encourages exploration within his work, hoping to foster a deeper understanding and curiosity about our surroundings.

Artist Statement:

`Shade` is an investigation into perspective and analog interactivity. It utilizes the sun's global illumination to create evolving shadows for dynamic, multi-dimensional engagement throughout the day. A collaboration between art, technology, and nature, the artwork’s time-based nature encourages reflection on the potential impact of external influences within our digital-physical world.

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Excerpt from www.bwst.ca/the-artists/tang:

Brendan Lee Satish Tang
Location: 30
Title: Manga Ormolu Version 4.0r, 2013
Collection of the Art Gallery of Burlington
Purchased in part through the support of the Elizabeth L. Gordon Art Program, a program of the Gordon Foundation and administered by the Ontario Arts Foundation.
40.6 x 33.0 x 50.8 cm
Material: Ceramic and mixed media paint.

Brendan Lee Satish Tang (B: 1975, Dublin Ireland; lives/works: Unceded territory of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam Nations) is a visual artist who is widely known for his sculptural ceramic work. He received an MFA from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and he is the recipient of numerous awards and accolades, both nationally and internationally.

Tang’s work explores issues of identity and the hybridization of our material and non-material culture while simultaneously expressing a love of both futuristic technologies and ancient traditions Although he is primarily known for his ceramic work, Tang continues to produce and exhibit work in a wide variety of mixed and multiple mediums.

A recipient of the 2016 Biennale Internationale de Vallauris Contemporary Ceramic Award, France, shortlisted for the Sobey Art Prize, and a finalist in the Loewe Foundation’s International Craft Prize, Madrid, Spain. Tang’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, BC, the Gardiner Museum, Toronto, ON, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, the Musee National Des Beaux-Arts du Quebec, Quebec City, QC, the Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche, Faenza, Italy, the Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, QC, the Boston Art Museum, Boston, MA, the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, the Foundation d’Entreprise Bernardaud, Limoges, France, among many others.
You might recognize him as a judge on The Great Canadian Pottery Throw Down!

Artist Statement:

Manga Ormolu enters the dialogue on contemporary culture, technology, and globalization through a fabricated relationship between ceramic tradition (using the form of Chinese Ming dynasty vessels) and techno-Pop Art. The futuristic update of the Ming vessels in this series recalls 18th century French gilded ormolu, where historic Chinese vessels were transformed into curiosity pieces for aristocrats. But here, robotic prosthetics inspired by anime (Japanese animation) and manga (the beloved comics and picture novels of Japan) subvert elitism with the accessibility of popular culture.

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Excerpt from www.bwst.ca/the-artists/nettleton:

Nate Nettleton
Location: B
Title: Disco Wall
Material: Disco balls, rotating motors, wood, acrylic sheet

Nate Nettleton is a Canadian visual artist living and working in Gatineau, Quebec. His expanding visual language engages viewers through shapes, colours, and movement, and is inspired by the natural environment and contemporary culture - exploring concepts of simplicity, possibility, and progress through abstract sculpture.

Artist Statement:

“Disco Wall” is an illuminated, iridescent acrylic prism, housing a wall of spinning disco balls. The iridescent acrylic produces a full spectrum of colour dependent upon the amount, type, and direction of light reflecting off its surface, allowing the viewer to experience the artwork in a different way from various locations, encouraging exploration and interaction.

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Excerpt from www.bwst.ca/the-artists/west:

Liz West
Location: A
Title: Through No.5
Material: Polycarbonate, polyester vinyl and wood

Liz West (b.1985) is a British artist known for her wide-ranging works, from the intimate to the monumental. Using a variety of materials and exploring the use of light, she blurs the boundaries between sculpture, architecture, design and painting to create works that are both playful and immersive. West has been commissioned worldwide by institutions and organisations including Natural History Museum, London Design Festival, Paris Fashion Week, Milan Design Week, National Trust, National Science and Media Museum, Dubai Design Week, Natural England, Salford University, Fortnum & Mason and Bristol Biennial. West’s work has been included in exhibitions at St Albans Museum + Gallery, Chester Cathedral, Compton Verney, Musée Nissim de Camondo in Paris, Kraftwerk Berlin, Tripostal Lille and Bangalore International Centre.

Artist Statement:

West creates vivid environments that mix luminous colour and radiant light. West aims to provoke a heightened sensory awareness in the viewer through her works. She is interested in exploring how sensory phenomena can invoke psychological and physical responses that tap into our own deeply entrenched relationships to colour. West's investigation into the relationship between colour and light is often realised through an engagement between materiality and a given site. Our understanding of colour can only be realised through the presence of light. By playing and adjusting colour, West brings out the intensity and composition of her spatial arrangements.

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Excerpt from www.bwst.ca/the-artists/dunning:

Dale Dunning
Location: 29
Title: Tangled Web
Material: Steel barded wire

I grew up in the west end of Ottawa. I attained a BFA at Mt Allison University, Sackville N.B. and a MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills MI. I now reside near Almonte ON where my wife has lived for more than fifty years making sculpture and I raising a family.

Artist Statement:

My sculptures are aimed at engaging the viewer's senses and emotions, inviting them to reflect on their own experiences and perceptions. I prefer the non-verbal communication sculpture affords to convey ideas and touch deeper levels of understanding and experience.

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