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Modern and Contemporary - Canadian

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Photographer: Toni Hafkenscheid

As Canada’s national ceramics museum, the Gardiner Museum is dedicated to celebrating Canadian artists and their work.

The collection brings together work by ceramic artists from across the country from the 1950s to the present. The field of contemporary Canadian ceramics today is rich and varied. The current generation of ceramicists takes the medium in a multiple directions. In their work, they show consciousness of history and popular culture, use the medium to tell stories, and borrow from industrial techniques such as transfer-printing and mould making. Clay is also used for sculpture and in multimedia work.

The Gardiner Museum’s holdings of contemporary Canadian ceramics were greatly enhanced by important gifts by Raphael Yu. It has been further enriched by works given by Léopold L. Foulem, Helen Gardiner, Aaron Milrad, Diana Reitberger, Brian Wilks, as well as from other donors. Many artists have also given works.

The Raphael Yu Centre of Canadian Ceramics was established as a virtual destination under which all activity related to Canadian Ceramic art is documented.

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Presence Through Absence
Artist / Maker: Arina Ailincai
1996-1998
Object number: G11.6.1a-b
Medalta Bean Pot
Artist / Maker: Thomas Aitken
2006
Object number: G14.14.3a-b
Set of three canisters
Artist / Maker: Thomas Aitken
2002
Object number: G14.14.2.1-3
Jug
Artist / Maker: Thomas Aitken
2000
Object number: G14.14.1
Set of three canisters (green, blue and pink)
Artist / Maker: Thomas Aitken
2002
Object number: G11.6.2.1-3
Sedna and Fish on Bear
Artist / Maker: Roger Aksadjuak
c.2001
Object number: G15.9.5
Fear of Flying
Artist / Maker: Patrick Amiot
1991
Object number: G11.6.3
Green Jar with Curved Shoulders
Artist / Maker: Robert Archambeau
1992
Object number: G99.6.1.1-2
Brown Bottle Vase
Artist / Maker: Robert Archambeau
2003
Object number: G14.14.6
Vase with Carved Leaf Design
Artist / Maker: Robert Archambeau
2003
Object number: G14.14.5
Turquoise Vase
Artist / Maker: Robert Archambeau
1998
Object number: G14.14.4
Photographer: Terrence Chu
Artist / Maker: Robert Archambeau
1992
Object number: G11.6.4a-b
Dish, cream and burgundy with leaves
Artist / Maker: Robert Archambeau
c.2007
Object number: G08.14.4
Large green vase with speckled glaze
Artist / Maker: Robert Archambeau
c.2007
Object number: G08.14.3
Large white vase with horizontal carving
Artist / Maker: Robert Archambeau
c.2007
Object number: G08.14.2
Covered jar with bronze lid, white pitted
Artist / Maker: Robert Archambeau
c.2007
Object number: G08.14.1a-b
Pair of Plates with Triple fish Design
Artist / Maker: Scott Barnim
2002
Object number: G14.14.7.1-2
Set of Four Mixing Bowls with Fish Design
Artist / Maker: Scott Barnim
1996
Object number: G11.6.5a-d
Bowl with interior decoration of Mahatma Ghandi
Artist / Maker: Carl Beam
c.1982
Object number: G04.13.2
Bowl with interior decorated with Mother Theresa
Artist / Maker: Carl Beam
c.1982
Object number: G04.13.1
The Whale of Our Being
Artist / Maker: Carl Beam
c.2003
Object number: G03.9.1
Vase
Artist / Maker: Gaetan Beaudin
n.d.
Object number: G13.11.5
Mugs
Artist / Maker: Gaetan Beaudin
1950s
Object number: G13.11.4.1-2
Vase
Artist / Maker: Gaetan Beaudin
1952
Object number: G13.11.3