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Gray Metal – jewelry cast from beach plastic

LB — Sun, 06 Jan 2019 23:21:23 +0000

Well before the most recent wave of coverage of the crisis of plastic accumulating in our oceans, jeweler and artist Jesse Gray of Gray Metal started picking up beach plastic on Vancouver Island and casting some of it into jewelry.

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The Log’s Log by Carole Itter, 1972-3

LB — Thu, 09 Mar 2017 09:30:55 +0000

Fittingly this book arrived in the mail on Iternational Women’s Day. I’ve always wanted a copy of it. Only 1000 were printed so I was surprised I could get one.

The book is documentation of an extended artwork by Vancouver artist Carole Itter in which she found a yellow cedar log on the beach in BC, cut it in pieces, put handles on each segment, wrapped them in canvas and took the entire log with her as baggage to Nova Scotia via the Canadian National railway.

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Protected: Enzo Mari’s classic 1970s chair modified by artists and designers – Presentation House Gallery auction

LB — Fri, 15 Nov 2013 20:29:00 +0000

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

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Artist Jeremy Deller’s 2001 “Battle of Orgreave” – restaging a violent clash of the 1984 UK miners’ strike

LB — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 09:27:50 +0000

In 2001 UK artist Jeremy Deller restaged the Battle of Orgreave, a violent 1984 clash between Yorkshire miners and police during the UK miners’ strike, and one of the many dark events of the Thatcher years.

Artist George Norris (1928-2013), creator of Vancouver’s popular giant steel crab sculpture

LB — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 02:11:56 +0000

George Norris, the artist who made what is arguably Vancouver’s most famous piece of public art—a giant steel crab in front of the Vancouver Museum and Planetarium—has died in Victoria.

Everybody works but the vacant lot

LB — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 23:40:14 +0000

Everybody works but the vacant lot, Henry George as quoted by Fay Lewis

This is a parody artwork at Vancouver’s 221A Artist-Run Centre, parodying the “Micro Loft” building being erected next door to it in the current lightning-fast condo land rush taking place in Chinatown.

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Art and cooperatives in the economy

LB — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 22:45:03 +0000

Photo by Dan Toulgoet , Vancouver Courier – Elvy Del Bianco presents rare films shot in Vancouver between 1964 and 1988 at the Waldorf Hotel in 2011.

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Enjoy the music

LB — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 02:52:34 +0000

…. and this….

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Designer Tobias Wong at the Museum of Vancouver

LB — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 23:08:11 +0000

A retrospective of the work of Vancouver designer Tobias Wong (1974-2010) opens tonight at the Museum of Vancouver. It’s curated by Todd Falkowsky who, along with his colleagues at the Canadian Design Resource, has perhaps done more to promote Canadian design and designers than anyone else, at least in the last decade.

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Karl Mattson’s sour gas escape pod, Rolla B.C.

LB — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 07:25:40 +0000

Pod at Sweetwater 905 Festival 2012.

Karl Mattson, an artist and filmmaker from the town of Rolla in Northern B.C., produced this “escape pod” artwork last year.

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