Emma Bound
Exhibition Dates: July 15 – August 20, 2016
Reception: Tuesday, July 26, 7 – 9 pm
Location: Saskatchewan Craft Council Gallery, 813 Broadway Avenue, Saskatoon, SK
This exhibition showcases the eclectic, imaginative and energetic work of the 2016 EMMA International Collaboration participants and invited guest artists. Featuring work in many media, including wood, fibre, ceramics, mixed media and visual art, it is a vibrant show that the whole family can enjoy.
EMMA Auctions
Ness Creek
Date: Wednesday, August 3, 2016
Hours: 4 – 6 pm
Location: Ness Creek Festival Site, Big River, SK • Directions
Saskatoon
Date: Thursday, August 4, 2016
Hours:
• Doors open at 5 pm
• Silent auction from 5 – 7 pm
• Live auction begins at 7 pm
Location: Holy Family Cathedral, 123 Nelson Road, Saskatoon, SK
These art auctions are free and open to the public. See what artistic magic occurred at the weeklong 2016 EMMA International Collaboration. This could be the beginning of your art collection! Collaborative artwork created by international, national and local artists. Proceeds help fund future EMMA Collaborations.
Arthur Perlett
www.emmacollaboration.com/artists/arthur-perlett
In one sentence describe the piece you are submitting to Emma Bound.
My piece for the show is a wall hung illuminated sign.
Tell us if this is your first time or 10th time attending Emma International Collaboration. What are you looking forward to?
I attended the first Emma collab, the last Emma collab and all others in between save two, mostly due to the commitments of being a young father. For me, Emma is a family reunion.
Benoît Averly
www.emmacollaboration.com/artists/benoit-averly
Décrivez en une phrase la pièce que vous allez soumettre à Emma Bound.
Une sculpture « roue » en frêne blanchi.
Pouvez-vous nous décrire votre processus créatif, celui que vous suivez normalement ou celui que vous avez peut-être adopté spécifiquement pour votre soumission à Emma Bound.
Je travaille habituellement sur des formes simples en bois sur lesquelles j’applique différentes textures.
Vous puisez votre inspiration de quelle source? Quel(le) artiste admirez-vous et pourquoi?
Inspiré par la nature, l’architecture, les motifs en tous genres mon travail est accompagné par une pratique de la photographie.
Les artistes Georges Rousse, Vincent Munier ou Quentin Garel ont toute mon admiration pour n’en citer que quelques uns.
D’ou êtes vous originaire? Qu’est-ce que vous aimez ou détestez de votre lieu d’origine?
Originaire de Bourgogne en France j’ai décidé après avoir beaucoup voyagé de rester dans cet endroit que j’affectionne.
Est-ce que cette édition de Emma International Collaboration est pour vous une première expérience ou même votre dixième participation? Vous avez hâte d’y faire ou d’y accomplir quelque chose en particulier?
Ce sera ma première participation à cette collaboration, après avoir participé à la collaboration L’art et la Matière en France en 2015. Ma participation A cette collaboration sera sous le signe de la découverte puisque j’arriverai avec seulement très peu de mes outils, une bonne façon d’explorer de nouveaux horizons.
Quelle est pour vous la signification du concept de ‘création collaborative’? Est-ce que vous trouvez parfois difficile de perdre de vu votre conception du produit final pour donner place au côté plus laisser-faire d’un projet d’ordre collaboratif?
Je vois le concept de création collaborative sous deux angles, tant du point de vue fabriquer ensemble que du point du vue créatif personnel dynamisé par le groupe.
Bonus – pouvez-vous nous partager une citation ou des mots de sagesse qui vous ont marqués?
Plus ça rate plus on a de chances que ca réussisse!
Sandra Dunn
www.emmacollaboration.com/artists/sandra-dunn
Tell us about your creative process.
Most of the work I do is architectural – so lots of measurements and planning involved. Rebecca Knott – blacksmith from the UK – recently came for a visit and I was hugely inspired by her steel repousse pieces. I love drawing and this is a whole new and interesting translation of that process in steel.
What currently inspires you and which other artists do you admire and why?
I’m inspired by work that’s expressive and emotional. Watercolours, sketches, half finished sentences – direct work that expresses a vulnerability of sorts.
Where are you from and what do you love and/or hate about that place?
I live in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada and love the community of people I have come to know in the thirty years I have lived and worked here.
Tell us if this is your first time or 10th time attending Emma International Collaboration. What are you looking forward to?
This will be my fourth Emma. I’m looking forward to carving stone with Neville, biking to and swimming across Nesslin Lake with Miranda, late night fires and all of the unexpected surprises, converstaions and encounters that await…
What does “making collaborative art work” mean to you? Is it a struggle to “let go” at times?
The collaborative aspect I experienced at Emma completely changed the way I work. It made me recognize that there’s a larger conversation to be had. In her memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal, British writer Jeanette Winterson talks about how she memorized books in her effort to counteract her mother’s efforts to prevent her from reading. She realized that if she memorized the text no one could take those books away from her. She refers to that treasure as her inside library. When I heard her say that I suddenly understood the value that all of us have – a set of skills and knowledge we’ve developed over the years that no one can steal from us. Those skills belong to our bodies and minds and couldn’t be sold even if we tried…
BONUS – Give us a quote or sentiment to live by.
“I was beginning to feel at home in myself, and to realize again the immense joys of having time to think, to be quiet, to live along in a sedate routine, a routine that for me releases the imagination, a quiet earth but a quiet earth under wild tumultuous skies…” – May Sarton