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Red Rebus Stroller 



Ceramic Sculpture

Material(s): Clay and vintage metal toy stroller   
Price: $2500


Wendy Walgate
Wendy Walgate
Booth: J-4
Toronto, ON
Duration: Full Show

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Mini Bio Biography: In 1994, Wendy Walgate completed a M.F.A. in Ceramics from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI and a M.A. in Art History at University of Toronto in 2003. Walgate also received a B.F.A. in Printmaking and Ceramics from University of Manitoba. In 2005, Wendy was awarded membership in the Royal Canadian Society of Artists. Wendy works full-time at her studio in the historical Distillery District of Toronto and previously taught at the Ontario College of Art + Design and Sheridan College. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at Prime Gallery in Toronto and Network Gallery in Detroit. Ferrin Gallery in Pittsfield, MA exhibited her work at SOFA Chicago, SOFA New York, Palm Beach 2 and Art Miami. Her work has recently been featured in British Vogue and the design book Fragiles which was sponsored by Die Gestalten in Berlin. Her work was in a group Gestalten exhibition at Design Miami, in Brussels and in the fall of 2008, Dubai. At the 2008 Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, she was awarded the Best Ceramics Award by donor Aaron Milrad. Statement about Work: The act of “play” can involve the use or manipulation of toys or objects together with conscious or unconscious “scripting” and narration to create a new, temporary and satisfying reality. In play it is common to rename and reassign familiar symbols and objects to fit the script. In Tennessee Williams’ play “The Glass Menagerie”, for example, we see Laura transcend her physical and emotional disabilities through play with her menagerie of glass animals; in her play, and in the moment of her play, she creates a script superior to her own reality. In my studio I repeat this process of play with hundreds and hundreds of glazed animals and I am able to record this process, and preserve this moment in each finished work. My finished collections are housed within objects that themselves reference lost, abandoned and imagined “play” sessions and memories. In my finished pieces, these heavily used play objects, comprised mostly of discarded and abandoned toys from the 1950’s, such as rusted strollers, carriages, wagons and doll’s trunks, have served to contain and “house” collections of representational glazed animals.