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Cheryl Wilson SmithPieced - grey, blue, white, textured, layered glass, wall relief, sculpture2023
2023
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Glass artist Cheryl Wilson Smith’s grandmother used to create hand-stitched quilts from cut squares of fabric. This beautiful wall sculpture with its patchwork pattern, and its soft colour palette in blues, white, gray and green is a remembrance of those colourful quilts.
Each wafer-thin square of glass frit (ground glass) is carefully layered into stacks.
The Northern Ontario-based artist is most often inspired by the rugged natural world that surrounds her so this piece signals a subtle intimate shift. Wilson Smith’s art is always an exploration of memory and the passage of time.
I envisioned—"The stacks of cut squares (my grandmother) would have ready to be made into a quilt. And the layers of memories that come with her making those quilts . Arranging and rearranging the fabrics into blocks and then the ladies all together for the quilting bees sitting around the frame. The tea and the dainties.” Cheryl Wilson Smith
She was the 2014 winner of the RBC Award for Glass through the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery. Wilson Smith has received nine grants from the Ontario Arts Council and one from the Canada Council. Commissions include the Red Lake District Heritage Centre, Margaret Cochenor Memorial Hospital Donor wall. She is the recipient of the prestigious Chalmers Fellowship from the Ontario Arts Council which allowed her to work in Scotland in 2023. Her work has been exhibited widely across Canada, in the UK and the US.
- Creator:Cheryl Wilson Smith (Canadian)
- Creation Year:2023
- Dimensions:Height: 14 in (35.56 cm)Width: 10 in (25.4 cm)Depth: 3 in (7.62 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Bloomfield, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU29112365912
Cheryl Wilson Smith
Cheryls’ art explores the passage of time and her sense of insignificance in the vast world around us. Living in the far north, on the granite and gold of the Canadian Shield and surrounded by Boreal Forest, she explores that which resonates within her soul. Drawing from her isolated life, residencies around the world and travels she has created a unique image . Like most Canadians she deals with landscape, but landscapes remembered across generations, those affecting us and those we impact. Cheryl is interested in remembrances that shape an individual’s art and design ideas. Her sculptures, the gossamer fine yet intrinsically strong structures become an active receptacle for interpretations of time and lasting memory. A place for quiet contemplation while exploring the tensions presented as we try to walk responsibly in this world and contemplate the extent to which we all alter the landscape, for better and worse. Wilson-Smith was the 2014 winner of the RBC Award for Glass through the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery. The gallery published a description of her work: “Wilson’-Smith’s delicate and complex kiln-cast works are inspired by the Boreal Forest and rock shores of Red Lake where she lives. Created by translating drawings into countless individual layers of glass frit, her sculptures push the limits of glass while interpreting the northern Ontario light, landscape and wilderness.” Wilson-Smith has received nine grants from the Ontario Arts Council and one from the Canada Council. Commissions include the Red Lake District Heritage Centre, Margaret Cochenor Memorial Hospital Donor wall. Her work has been exhibited widely across Canada, in the UK and the US and is held in private and corporate collections.
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