Laura Wee Láy Láq Explained

Laura Wee Láy Láq (born 1952) is a ceramics sculptor, educator, recognized cultural caretaker, and member of the Tzeachten First Nation (Ch'iyaqtel people).[1] [2] Her ancestral name is Lumlamelut. Wee Láy Láq is recognized for handbuilt ceramics that utilize primitive firing techniques (including Raku).[3] [4] Wee Láy Láq is a recipient of the 2015 Fulmer Award in BC First Nations Art.[5] [6]

Education

Laura Wee Láy Láq studied fine arts with Fred Owen, founder of the Ceramics Department at Douglas College in New Westminster, BC from 1970 to 1973, and then ceramics at the Vancouver School of Art, where she graduated with an honors degree in 1977.[7] [8] [9]

Career

In 2004 Laura Wee Láy Láq's ceramic artworks were included in the exhibition Hot Clay: Sixteen West Coast Ceramic Artists at the Surrey Art Gallery, curated by Carol E. Mayer.[10]

Wee Láy Láq was part of the exhibition Border Zones: New Art Across Cultures at the University of British Columbia's Museum of Anthropology, in parallel with the 2010 Winter Olympics.[11]

In 2023 Laura Wee Láy Láq was an exhibiting artist in the exhibition Apparition Room curated by Lee Plested at The Western Front to commemorate the organization's 50th anniversary.[12]

Ceramic sculptures by Laura Wee Láy Láq's are included in permanent collections of the Vancouver Art Gallery,[13] the Winnipeg Art Gallery,[14] Surrey Art Gallery,[15] the Richmond Art Gallery in Richmond, British Columbia,[16] the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia,[17] and the Nanaimo Art Gallery.[18]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2011 . Ye Selsí:sele: The Grannies; Grandmothers . 8 March 2024 . Man Turned to Stone: T'xwelátse.
  2. Web site: 2024 . Laura Wee Láy Láq . 8 March 2024 . Latimer Gallery.
  3. Web site: Laura Wee Lay Laq | Art Gallery of Alberta . 2019-05-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190525042243/https://www.youraga.ca/bio/laura-wee-lay-laq . 2019-05-25 . live .
  4. Web site: Contrasts mesh in the work of Laura Wee Lay Laq and Marcus Bowcott. 2017-03-29. 2019-05-25. https://web.archive.org/web/20190525042241/https://www.straight.com/arts/887446/contrasts-mesh-work-laura-wee-lay-laq-and-marcus-bowcott. 2019-05-25. live.
  5. Web site: Outstanding BC First Nations artists celebrated . 2019-05-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190525042241/http://nationtalk.ca/story/outstanding-bc-first-nations-artists-celebrated . 2019-05-25 . live .
  6. Web site: Laura Wee Lay Laq . 8 March 2024 . BC Achievement Foundation.
  7. Web site: The geometry of space. 23 February 2016. The Source. 3 June 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190603161837/http://thelasource.com/en/2016/02/22/the-geometry-of-space/. 3 June 2019. live.
  8. Web site: Fleetham . Anne . 1982 . "Meeting" . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20190603161839/http://arch-bc.org/uploads/r/potters-guild-of-british-columbia/1/0/1008/PGBCNewsletter1982Sept.pdf . 2019-06-03 . 8 March 2024.
  9. Web site: RRN - Knowledge - People - Laura Wee Lay Laq. www.rrncommunity.org. 2019-06-03. https://web.archive.org/web/20190603161839/https://www.rrncommunity.org/people/9018. 2019-06-03. live.
  10. Book: Davison, Liane . Hot Clay: Sixteen Westcoast Ceramics Artists . Surrey Art Gallery . 2004 . 0-920181-60-0 . Surrey, British Columbia . English.
  11. Web site: Artist talks about the 'cycle' of ceramics. 2016-02-23. 2019-05-25. https://web.archive.org/web/20190525042243/https://www.surreynowleader.com/entertainment/artist-talks-about-the-cycle-of-ceramics/. 2019-05-25. live.
  12. Web site: 2023 . Apparition Room . 8 March 2024 . WesternFront.ca.
  13. Web site: Vancouver Art Gallery . 2019-05-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190419024522/https://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/collection_and_research/2012_acquisitions.html . 2019-04-19 . live .
  14. Web site: Art Search | Winnipeg Art Gallery . 2019-05-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190525042632/http://www.picasso.wag.ca/art/art-search/display,result/46338 . 2019-05-25 . live .
  15. Web site: Program Guide Spring & Summer 2018 . Surrey Art Gallery.
  16. Web site: Unknown.
  17. Web site: Collection Online | Museum of Anthropology at UBC.
  18. Web site: 2021 . We Do Not Work Alone . 8 March 2024 . Nanaimo Art Gallery.

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