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This website contains biographical information and mark images for ceramic makers in British Columbia, covering makers working in the 1920s to the present. To find information on a specific maker, navigate to “browse makers” in the at the top of the page.
The BC Ceramic Marks Registry allows visitors to navigate the site through browsing makers or mark images. The Registry is a living document, designed to be updated as new information becomes available and as new makers elect to include their marks.
Mar 20, 2019 · Since 2005 she has solicited biographies from BC ceramic artists while collecting their marks. She has also photographed marks in situ at collector homes and second-hand shops. Anyone who would like to be added to the registry can fill out the information and attach images of their marks.
- The First Century Captured in The British Columbia Ceramic Mark Registry
- For Ceramic Artists Wishing to Be Included in The Registry
- History + Purpose of Bccmr
The British Columbia Ceramic Mark Registry (BCCMR) was initiated in 2005 to help artists, collectors, researchers, and others become more familiar with ceramics in BC through identifying individual potters' marks and providing artist profiles. The initial registry first published in 2018 had 260 marks and limited biographical information. The curre...
Please use our submission forms. Please include - Name, date and place of birth, studio name and location, education (dates) exhibitions (dates) exhibitions, collections and publications. BCCMR is a living entity. Debra Sloan, as well as Staff at the CCBC will oversee the information and add to the Registry on a regular basis.
Please read on about why and how the BCCMR has evolved. Knowledge of pottery-making initially came to BC from abroad. Mary Young came from Ontario to teach in Summerland and Victoria in 1923. Starting in the mid 1920s, BC's first potter, Axel Ebringestablished himself in the Okanagan, producing a kind of unpretentious peasant ware based on the coun...
Mark Prior: biography. Born, Brighton, England, 1957. Attended art college 1975-79 initially as a painter, then majoring in sculpture. My chosen medium of Land Art involved photographic recording for gallery display, which lead to an abiding passion for landscape photography.
Inspired by Debra Sloan’s BC Ceramics Marks Registry – created in collaboration with the CCBC – the Craft Council of BC is endeavouring to collect maker’s marks from its members to create registries for each medium.
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