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Greg payce biography

          Since he has been a permanent faculty member at the Alberta College of Art & Design in Calgary....

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        1. Born and raised in Edmonton, Payce knew from the age of six that he wanted to be a potter and started studying the medium in earnest in high.
        2. Since he has been a permanent faculty member at the Alberta College of Art & Design in Calgary.
        3. Payce has been making ceramics for over 55 years and has exhibited his work in over 30 solo, and over group exhibitions in Canada and abroad.
        4. Greg Payce was born in Edmonton, Alberta in He became fascinated with clay at the age of six, when he watched a potter turning a lump of clay into a.

          5. Orrery

          This sculptural installation by contemporary Canadian ceramicist, Greg Payce is an exciting new acquisition to the WAG’s permanent collection generously gifted to the Gallery by the artist.

          The title, “Orrery”, references the popular astronomic mechanical model used to represent the positions, motions, and phases of the solar system.

          Here, the artist has borrowed the circular, mobile aesthetic of a traditional orrery and adapted the functional mechanized elements to rotate his ceramic pieces in a way that animates the negative spaces between the vessel’s forms.

          The spatial profiles between each of the twenty-four carefully aligned vessels reveals the outline of male and female bodies in place of the solar planets.

          The human forms that appear between the ceramic components are idealized and generalized, opening the work to what has been described as an “erotic interpretation”.

          Historically, ceramics have often engaged the body and its functions. For instance, erotic referen