Collection

Collection Overview

Over the last thirty years the Art Gallery of Burlington has amassed the largest comprehensive collection of contemporary Canadian ceramics in the world, totaling over 2300 works. The work ranges from the highly functional to sculptural installations. Collection policy has dictated that we not only have a representational selection of work from coast, to coast, to coast, but we have earmarked artists of outstanding importance where we collect their work in depth to represent their career span. The Collection looks at the intersection where high craftsmanship and artistic expression converge.

New Acquisitions

Janet MacPherson
MYRIADS
52.5 x 27.0 x 17.0 cm.
Cast porcelain, lustre
2013.086.0.1
Purchased with funds raised by the Collection Committee, 2013.

Maja Padrov
DUETS
31.5 x 33.0 x 19.5 cm.
Slab rolled and hand built stoneware, glazes
2013.085.0.4
Purchased with funds raised by the Collection Committee, 2013.

Carol Epp
TO THE BEST OF THEIR KNOWLEDGE
18.0 x 31.0 16.5 cm.
Hand built and cast white stoneware, underglaze, china paints, glass dome
2013.087.0.2
Purchased with funds raised by the Collection Committee, 2013.

Amelie Proulx
JARDIN MECANIQUE II
90.0 x 60.0 x 60.0 cm.
Porcelain, springs, metal supports
2013.084.0.1
Purchased with funds raised by the Collection Committee, 2013.

Photo: Étienne Dionne