Process & Ongoing Research – D'Andrea Bowie

Process & Ongoing Research

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Staying with process, alchemy and material transfo

Staying with process, alchemy and material transformation…New Zealand wine bottle into something new (slide 2 and 3) decay, regrowth.. attempts on solidifying all the glass things I learned this summer @penlandschool 🍀🌱🥬

Cooking foods, glass, dogs, wax, family, walks, we

Cooking foods, glass, dogs, wax, family, walks, weekends 4 evah, love this weather in the country ❤️ missing my gal 😭 @dejas_colouringbook we love u 🥰 and miss u !! Not enjoying that rag weed 👁️ 🔥;(

kids off to school 🏫 grade 12 and 6! Busting my

kids off to school 🏫 grade 12 and 6! Busting my ❤️ open! (permission granted for pics!) Deja in Sweden and Jax downtown !

Moving… transitions are never easy but offer the

Moving… transitions are never easy but offer the elusive gift of perspective, visiting work I barely remember painting (maybe 10 -15 yrs ago?) but finding links to a preoccupation with surface, texture, voids and materiality- an undercurrent throughout 🧶

Outtake from affordance series showed up in my mem

Outtake from affordance series showed up in my memories (7 yrs ago!!) juxtaposed w crystal led casting work from this summer. Feeling this as my most amazingly strong and beautiful daughter prepares to spend 10 months in Sweden. How do we hold on, shape and mould those we love when letting go is just as important? May my love🤍 carry on as a sort of invisible mother mould, encircling gently as she finds her own shape. 🩶🤍🩶

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A small test fresh outta kiln A continuation fro

A small test fresh outta kiln

A continuation from research/fixation with Faience after seeing it in museums around the world 🌎… my attempts towards making my own version. She’s a gnarly beaut! ❤️‍🔥

A quote from the web.. ‘Faience first appeared at the end of the fifth millennium B.C. and has occurred in various forms up to the present day. It may have been invented in the ancient Near East following the development of an alkaline glaze on quartz stones. Its technological refinement and major triumphs, however, are displayed in Egyptian art.

Making glazes, working w mud, silica, and the elements (grit! Fire!) helps me feel connected to alchemy and our natural world. (And possibly a shared ancient path?) So much is possible!! ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

It’s a long one but feeling the feels.. (might d

It’s a long one but feeling the feels.. (might delete later!) I made lots of strides @penlandschool w @danielclayman in glass casting but this test is sitting in my heart as I return home to an unfortunate flood. 🌊 (have been spamming stories w memories!) The glass is from a kombucha bottle I bought on the trip down with 😍 my sweetie @michaelbelmore thru the earth works of Ohio, such a great road trip exploring ancient sites- juxtaposed with the @americansignmuseum in Cincinnati!! (You gotta go!) then hiking in the rhododendron heavy hills of West Virginia.

thx for copper gifted via best studio pal @kendall.a.reiss and then @brynnalexis for saving my impatient soul from de-investing too soon by wrapping it in the coziest-pink towels! 🧺 thx to @calbreedartist an amazing glass blower who showed true humility while learning new things and was consistently there w Alabama wisdom👊🏻👊🏻(let’s go fer a rip!) always open and curious to new things and our ladies of @molten_reflections the kindest, most open souls that I’m super privileged to have met. ❤️❤️❤️

Midnight Rick is not on insta but I hope to see his crazy stuff soon! @wilkins.lily our core fellow was a steady eddy and such a joy to see them take the material into beautiful places and zoom forward!! 💫💫💫💫

We also had the bestest studio assistants @morgangilb who didn’t lose her cool while we made mould after mould and @katewaitwhat who shared her gift of the gang mould!! @kellyofthedell and @ravenskyriver thx for letting yr son hang w us, he did a great job w cutting wire and sharing his super cool 😎 playlist, I’ll always look at this and be reminded that community and making with others is way more important than the finished thing.

Such a gift, that a small chunk of vitrified glass and copper can carry so much feeling, forever changed, forever grateful 🥹 🙏🩷 @thx again @danielclayman for sharing and offering knowledge.

Less I forget, the cooks @penlandschool so amaze, I rolled in and out daily for the best eats, truly, 🥹 this mom of many kids is super grateful 👵🏼🙏💫

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Made it home 💜 looking 👀 at two intense wee

Made it home 💜 looking 👀 at two intense weeks of new glass work, making plans..

Cast glass and pate de verre. Super tired but exci

Cast glass and pate de verre. Super tired but excited about learning new processes to articulate this series (that I’ve been wanting to see in glass since I started on them years ago!)💡 thank you @danielclayman for sharing your expertise and for a fantastic 2 weeks @penlandschool lots of love to my glass casting crew, a pleasure learning and laughing alongside you all!! 🩷✨🩷 what a magical place!

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I made my first glass cast in 2015 (with so much h

I made my first glass cast in 2015 (with so much help from @pierre.bouchard.glass 🙏) and have been asking it tentative questions since. When I saw a glass casting workshop with @danielclayman @penlandschool I jumped at the chance. Feeling lucky 🍀 to be here in the mountains with dedicated time to learning, making, thinking, connecting w material and the artist community here ⛰️ 🌈🩷

Behold! Rocks and trees 💚

Behold! Rocks and trees 💚

Opening tonight @artmur in Montreal ! A selection

Opening tonight @artmur in Montreal ! A selection of art from MFA programs across Canada 🍁 I am currently traveling so missing out but a few pieces from my thesis on exhibit will represent ✨ Dandelion wine in glass and copper and Birds of Paradise in bronze. Check out my cohort @chaneldesrochesart @elisavitafineart @shannynreidart

Beauty day in Ohio exploring ancient monumental ea

Beauty day in Ohio exploring ancient monumental earthworks- Serpent Mound and Hopewell sites. Just how ancient these sites are can be a hot topic, some date them at 2,000 yrs old however there is compelling evidence to suggest much older… the precision of the shapes in relation to the stars ✨ is mind blowing 🤯 ! ⚡️💚

Website ⬆️ date! ✨ GRIT install shots online

Website ⬆️ date! ✨ GRIT install shots online:) It’s been a few months since my thesis show and I’m slowly picking up the pieces and reflecting on the past few years at York completing a MFA. None of it would have been possible without the support of my amazing kids and partner. Love you guys! 🩷 @dejabe11a @michaelbelmore Mick, Dante and Jax. I could practically hear my family in Alberta and the west coast cheering 📣 me on throughout! Very thankful for all the great instructors at York and my cohort, it was a pleasure learning alongside all! 👩🏼‍🎓 thx @leah.thelproject for the web-masterly skills 🙏 and @scormierstudio for 📸 web link in bio

I’m not planting a big veg garden this year, slo

I’m not planting a big veg garden this year, slowing it down and checking in w my energy levels reserved to tend the plants I’ve already got growing. Local farmers in my area grow amazing produce w way more skill and care I can muster so happy supporting them while I tend to my health and family in sustainable ways. 💚👩🏼‍🌾 BEHOLD!! and WONDER w me as I sit and stare at the most stunning asparagus ferns that used to be a wee tiny baby in first pic (gifted by a close pal when I first moved- bringing much happiness :)

Escarpment/Erasure Great day with the Broken For

Escarpment/Erasure

Great day with the Broken Forests Eco-Artists Group @brokenforests22 the Ontario Society of Artists and art lovers raising awareness around protecting sensitive forests sites from development.

A pleasure installing work onsite, dreamy seeing my bronzes enjoying the sunset and in conversation with the surrounding trees (image 1). Super fun exploring the works, a highlight was witnessing the delight experienced from hanging out in Olive where all were welcome to make some art 🙂 regrets for not getting photos of every artist but the show is up for a few weeks. (@donchretien and @ernestdaetwyler both excellent works!)

1, Containers for Consciousness, bronze, me
2, Rumble, copper, @michaelbelmore
3, 4, Olive 🫒 me (beautiful water colour painting by a guest!)
5, @quansteelearts The Last Island, site specific install
6, @simon_frank13 Castle glen Log-hammer painting
7, @wilsondermot Mega Horn performance
8, @grandriverfoodforestry Nicola Jane Whiting Thomas

Artists exhibiting: Lisa Murzin, Dermot Wilson, Michael Belmore, D’Andrea Bowie, Nicola Jane Whiting Thomas, Ernest Daetwyler, Janet Hendershot, Simon Frank, Quan Steele, Don Chretien, Gill Cameron, Heidi Burkhardt , Marina Hanacek, David Dawson, Soroush Dabiri, Elizabeth Jackson Hall, Erin Fitzgibbon, Mary Seymour.

Shout out @wilsondermot for initiating! Big appreciation to the generous Knowles family for hosting us on their beautiful farm, for highlighting this issue and allowing us to play on their land 🙏

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