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Education:
2005-2008 University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Master of Fine Arts. Lincoln, Nebraska.
1999-2004 University of Manitoba. Bachelor of Fine Arts, Honours. Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Exhibitions:
2019
Alberta Craft Council. Home. Calgary, AB.
2018
Gladstone Hotel. TSG: Say My Name. Toronto, ON.
Alberta Craft Council. Home. Edmonton, AB.
2016
Yuill Gallery, Medalta in the Historic Clay District. Home. medicin Hat, AB.
Eisentrager Howard Gallery. Graduate Alumni Exhibition. Lincoln, NE.
2015
University Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. The Uncommon Object (NCECA). New Bedford, MA.
2014
Northern Clay Center. True North, Contemporary Canadian Ceramics. Minneapolis, MI.
The Hive Artist Hub. Small Works. Medicine Hat, AB.
2012
Yuill Gallery, in the Historic Clay District. Permanent Collection Exhibition. Medicine Hat, AB.
2011 • Throughout the history of ceramic production, methodologies and patterns have moved around the globe through migration, war and conquest. Blue and white porcelain has carried particular social aspects of this history – including the aspirations of status and the statement of wealth. My practice engages with the history of ceramics, the connotations of material and the mutation and adaptation of motifs and technologies. The repetition of form and reiteration of pattern is an effort to apprehend the dynamic between the two. Shifts in scale and material further complicate meaning to continue the development of a deepened understanding. The three iterations presented here demonstrate an exploration of the role of ornament; it’s relationship to the vessel and the continued industrial mutation of the ‘blue onion’ pattern. Born in Montreal, Canada, Martina Lantin received her Bachelor of Art from Earlham College and her mästare of Fine Art from • This book is an unorthodox biography of William Hesketh Lever, 1st Lord Leverhulme (1851-1925), the founder of the Lever Brothers' Sunlight Soap empire. The most frequently recurring comparison during his life and at his death, however, was with Napoleon. What the author finds most fascinating about him is that he unites within one person so many intriguing developments of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The book first sketches out his life, the rise and triumph of his business, and explores his homes, his gardens and his collections. It contains essays on Lever in the context of the history of advertising, of factory paternalism, town planning, the Garden City movement and their ramifications across the twentieth century, and of colonial encounters. Lever had worked hard at opening agencies and selling his soap abroad since 1888. But if import drives proved unsatisfactory, logic dictated that soap should be manufactured and s
Gardiner Museum. RBC Emerging Artists. Toronto, ON.
Alberta Craft Council. Gene Martina Lantin
Artist Statement:
Bio:
‘So clean’