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Item Name: Ceramic
Title: Familiar But Foreign
Maker: Jeannie Mah
Year: 2000
Country: Canadian
Materials: photocopies on porcelain vessels, plinth
Measurements: various
ID Number: PC2001.15
Legal Status: PERMANENT COLLECTION
Extended Label Info: Jeannie Mah’s delicate sculptures of porcelain use clay rolled into paper-thin sheets. For Familiar… but Foreign, photos of her immigrant family’s history are added to her fascination with cups of ancient Minoan Greece and 18th French porcelain. Photocopies containing an iron-oxide toner are transferred onto porcelain, and under-glazes in delicate colours are added to recreate the look of old hand-tinted sepia photos. On a shelf in the shape of an open book (a photo album!), formal portrait photos from China on the left inaccurately ‘mirror’ the photos of life in Canada on the right, making explicit a family separated during the 25 years of the Chinese Exclusion Act (1923-48). Jeannie Mah is a first generation Chinese-Canadian. Born in Regina, she grew up in Willingdon Grocery, the family grocery store once on the corner of Victoria Avenue and McIntyre St, where the City Hall now stands. The fragile nature of this work highlights the precarious nature of memory, forgotten civic history, and family stories. Jeannie Mah (1952 – ) is an internationally acclaimed ceramic artist, who earned a BEd at the University of Regina (1976) while studying ceramics with renowned artist Jack Sures, before graduating from the Vancouver School of Art (1979) (now Emily Carr University). After a year of independent studies in London(1982-3), and summer residencies at the Banff Centre (1984 and 1988), Mah studied french at Université de Perpignan (1988), and the Université de la Sorbonne (1989). Returning to the University of Regina, she earned a further Bachelor of Arts (1993). She has also collaborated on video and film productions, and is co-editor of Regina’s Secret Spaces and Biblio Files: 100 years of the Regina Public Library. Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, and is held in public and private collections around the world. She currently lives and works in Regina.
Title: Familiar But Foreign
Maker: Jeannie Mah
Year: 2000
Country: Canadian
Materials: photocopies on porcelain vessels, plinth
Measurements: various
ID Number: PC2001.15
Legal Status: PERMANENT COLLECTION
Extended Label Info: Jeannie Mah’s delicate sculptures of porcelain use clay rolled into paper-thin sheets. For Familiar… but Foreign, photos of her immigrant family’s history are added to her fascination with cups of ancient Minoan Greece and 18th French porcelain. Photocopies containing an iron-oxide toner are transferred onto porcelain, and under-glazes in delicate colours are added to recreate the look of old hand-tinted sepia photos. On a shelf in the shape of an open book (a photo album!), formal portrait photos from China on the left inaccurately ‘mirror’ the photos of life in Canada on the right, making explicit a family separated during the 25 years of the Chinese Exclusion Act (1923-48). Jeannie Mah is a first generation Chinese-Canadian. Born in Regina, she grew up in Willingdon Grocery, the family grocery store once on the corner of Victoria Avenue and McIntyre St, where the City Hall now stands. The fragile nature of this work highlights the precarious nature of memory, forgotten civic history, and family stories. Jeannie Mah (1952 – ) is an internationally acclaimed ceramic artist, who earned a BEd at the University of Regina (1976) while studying ceramics with renowned artist Jack Sures, before graduating from the Vancouver School of Art (1979) (now Emily Carr University). After a year of independent studies in London(1982-3), and summer residencies at the Banff Centre (1984 and 1988), Mah studied french at Université de Perpignan (1988), and the Université de la Sorbonne (1989). Returning to the University of Regina, she earned a further Bachelor of Arts (1993). She has also collaborated on video and film productions, and is co-editor of Regina’s Secret Spaces and Biblio Files: 100 years of the Regina Public Library. Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, and is held in public and private collections around the world. She currently lives and works in Regina.