Uploaded February 2018 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
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Jack Sures is the 2018 winner of the Saidye Bronfman Award for the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. Directed by Kyle Armstrong
Presentation of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Independent Media Arts Alliance
The Canada Council for the Arts is a federal, arm's-length Crown corporation created by an Act of Parliament in 1957 (Canada Council for the Arts Act) "to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts."
For more information, visit: ggavma.canadacouncil.ca
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Transcript:
“The creative process, if it’s creative, is evolutionary. It evolves. But it evolves because you discover things, and as you discover one thing you build on it, and it develops and it grows and it matures.
I’ve developed these techniques that are very personal and they’re not traditional kind of techniques, although the forms are traditional looking in shape but the techniques are ones that I have developed myself.
In the beginning you want to do everything really excitingly, and then as you mature you start to simplify, and you become more direct.
I’m 82, gonna be 83 next week. Hopefully I’ve learned some things along the road. But I think also part of my process; I’ve always wanted to do my own thing. As an artist I wanted to be truly creative in doing things that I felt best expressed me, not expressed ideas of our culture or other people’s ideas.
Ceramics is very physical. You’ve gotta make clay and you gotta wedge it and you have to work with it, and when you’re throwing you’re using a fair amount of physical activity. You have to think about what you’re doing and what you’re trying to arrive at and that is part of the creative experience but it’s also part of your wisdom from previous experiences.”
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Jack Sures is the 2018 winner of the Saidye Bronfman Award for the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. Directed by Kyle Armstrong
Presentation of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Independent Media Arts Alliance
The Canada Council for the Arts is a federal, arm's-length Crown corporation created by an Act of Parliament in 1957 (Canada Council for the Arts Act) "to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts."
For more information, visit: ggavma.canadacouncil.ca
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Transcript:
“The creative process, if it’s creative, is evolutionary. It evolves. But it evolves because you discover things, and as you discover one thing you build on it, and it develops and it grows and it matures.
I’ve developed these techniques that are very personal and they’re not traditional kind of techniques, although the forms are traditional looking in shape but the techniques are ones that I have developed myself.
In the beginning you want to do everything really excitingly, and then as you mature you start to simplify, and you become more direct.
I’m 82, gonna be 83 next week. Hopefully I’ve learned some things along the road. But I think also part of my process; I’ve always wanted to do my own thing. As an artist I wanted to be truly creative in doing things that I felt best expressed me, not expressed ideas of our culture or other people’s ideas.
Ceramics is very physical. You’ve gotta make clay and you gotta wedge it and you have to work with it, and when you’re throwing you’re using a fair amount of physical activity. You have to think about what you’re doing and what you’re trying to arrive at and that is part of the creative experience but it’s also part of your wisdom from previous experiences.”
