Community

Clay Space aims to a be a place of collaboration, where different disciplines come together and result in communal exchange and growth.  We are open to various projects that allow us to participate in a manner of different ways which, has led us to community based art programs, art and design exhibits and assisting in the fabrication of other artists’ work.

Knaves Kitchen - June 2022

For those of you who have followed the career of Julian Calleros you will know it has been a varied, rich and exciting journey involving art, culture, community and cuisine.  He ran an art cafe on Dundas West in Toronto from  2009 to 2011 before returning to Mexico where he ran a rural artist’s residency until 2019.  In June 2022  Julian  returned to Toronto with…

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Sameer Farooq - June 2022

Sameer Farooq played a huge role in the development of this studio long before it opened.  Adam and Sameer worked together on Sameer’s 2017 exhibit “HERE: Locating Contemporary Canadian Artists” at the Aga Khan Museum, curated by Swapnaa Tamhane and in 2018 on “A Heap of Random Sweepings” curated by Mona Filip at the Koffler Centre for the Arts.   This year Sameer made many…

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Joshua Lue Chee Kong, Windows display - April 2022

An artwork can often take a long and meandering journey before it finds its home or gets to be displayed. Clay Space’s Joshua Lue Chee Kong never got to display his thesis presentation for his MFA in the spring of 2020. We were lucky enough to be the venue to finally exhibit one of his artwork in the studio’s window display. In Melting Pot: Casting a Caribbean Chinese Body, Josh investigates…

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This Will Do, Thomas Bollman - May 2022

The Contact Photography Festival is a Toronto institution.  Every year photographs are randomly exhibited  anywhere from tiny venues to huge billboards.  We were blessed to have Thomas Bollmann, a regular Clay Space collaborator and supporter, install a continuation of his DEALR art project as part of Contact.  His installation picks up from…

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DEALR - April 2022

For what could have been a reality TV contemporary art project, – Toronto based artistic director and curator, Ingrid Jones – paired 6 artists  and had them develop a body of artwork over the course of 4 months in what was the DEALR project.  Clay Space’s Adam Williams worked alongside Yasmine Louis.  Their 4 months working together resulted in…

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Dana Prieto at the Toronto Biennial of Art, March 2022

Another highlight of Toronto’s covid-19 lockdown in January of 2022 was our production of Dana Prieto’s pieces for the Toronto Biennial of Art in March.  We worked closely with Dana to make terracotta replicas of the World War II brass shells of her installation, “Footnotes of an Arsenal”  which found their way to the Small Arms Inspection Building.  This was one of…

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Murmur, DesignTO - January 2022

In January of 2022 we had lost count of how many lockdowns had passed and which one we were in but the studio was treated to an incredible design installation by F_RMlab as part of the city wide DesignTO festival.  Murmur, was an installation created by architectural students from the University of Waterloo.  F_RMlab constructed a motion sensored…

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Gardiner’s Community Art Space with Clay Space - September 2020 - April 2022

We have led the instruction of a number of community-based workshops at the Gardiner Museum, namely working to support the Gardiner’s Community Art Space (CAS) projects.  In September 2020, we led a series of studio-based workshops at the museum for seniors of ArtHeart, a centre serving Toronto’s Regent Park neighborhood.  The project titled Community Is Essential invited participants to respond to the impact of the pandemic on their daily lives. In May of 2021, we led a second series of workshops in partnership with CAS. The workshops were developed … 

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Knaves Kitchen - June 2022

For those of you who have followed the career of Julian Calleros you will know it has been a varied, rich and exciting journey involving art, culture, community and cuisine.  He ran an art cafe on Dundas West in Toronto from  2009 to 2011 before returning to Mexico where he ran a rural artist’s residency until 2019.  In June 2022  Julian  returned to Toronto with his culinary project, Knaves Kitchen. With Knaves Kitchen, Julian invades non-food related spaces with a pop up restaurant.  The event was a chance not only to showcase Julian’s cuisine but Clay Space’s and Maak Studio’s tableware. 

Sameer Farooq - June 2022

Sameer Farooq played a huge role in the development of this studio long before it opened.  Adam and Sameer worked together on Sameer’s 2017 exhibit “HERE: Locating Contemporary Canadian Artists” at the Aga Khan Museum, curated by Swapnaa Tamhane and in 2018 on “A Heap of Random Sweepings” curated by Mona Filip at the Koffler Centre for the Arts.   This year Sameer made many of his pieces at Clay Space with the help of Josh.  His most recent show with Beth Stuart, I opened up the radio but there was no-one inside, was on display at the Susan Hobbs Gallery in Toronto.  Sameer is currently an artist in residency at the Bemis Center for the Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska.

Joshua Lue Chee Kong, Windows display - April 2022

An artwork can often take a long and meandering journey before it finds its home or gets to be displayed. Clay Space’s Joshua Lue Chee Kong never got to display his thesis presentation for his MFA in the spring of 2020. We were lucky enough to be the venue to finally exhibit one of his artwork in the studio’s window display. In Melting Pot: Casting a Caribbean Chinese Body, Josh investigates the complexities of Chinese infinity in the Caribbean. It examines Chinese culture through the lens of time and generational legacy as well as the notion of playing a role and meeting cultural expectations of immigrants in the Caribbean. 

This Will Do, Thomas Bollman - May 2022

The Contact Photography Festival is a Toronto institution.  Every year photographs are randomly exhibited  anywhere from tiny venues to huge billboards.  We were blessed to have Thomas Bollmann, a regular Clay Space collaborator and supporter, install a continuation of his DEALR art project as part of Contact.  His installation picks up from where he left off by displaying on video loop his “Make It Last” wooden letters in the ravine, captured by a hunter’s video camera.  The video shows everything from raccoons investigating the art to school children rearranging the letters around. 

DEALR - April 2022

For what could have been a reality TV contemporary art project, – Toronto based artistic director and curator, Ingrid Jones – paired 6 artists  and had them develop a body of artwork over the course of 4 months in what was the DEALR project.  Clay Space’s Adam Williams worked alongside Yasmine Louis.  Their 4 months working together resulted in a mixed media body of work entitled you plus me plus 133.  Their work was a reflection on time both through the perspective of how people were personally impacted by the pandemic as well as a broader investigation on time and how it is recorded.   

Dana Prieto at the Toronto Biennial of Art, March 2022

Another highlight of Toronto’s covid-19 lockdown in January of 2022 was our production of Dana Prieto’s pieces for the Toronto Biennial of Art in March.  We worked closely with Dana to make terracotta replicas of the World War II brass shells of her installation, “Footnotes of an Arsenal”  which found their way to the Small Arms Inspection Building.  This was one of 4 sites for the 2022 biennial.  Dana’s installation is a touching homage to the site and land of the Small Arms building and its history of munitions manufacturing in World War II.

Murmur, DesignTO - Jan 2022

In January of 2022 we had lost count of how many lockdowns had passed and which one we were in but the studio was treated to an incredible design installation by F_RMlab as part of the city wide DesignTO festival.  Murmur, was an installation created by architectural students from the University of Waterloo.  F_RMlab constructed a motion sensored collection of light pieces which bobbed up and down through the night.  It was an incredible sight from both inside and outside of the studio. 

Gardiner’s Community Art Space with Clay Space - Sept 2020 - April 2022

We have led the instruction of a number of community-based workshops at the Gardiner Museum, namely working to support the Gardiner’s Community Art Space (CAS) projects.  In September 2020, we led a series of studio-based workshops at the museum for seniors of ArtHeart, a centre serving Toronto’s Regent Park neighborhood.  The project titled Community Is Essential invited participants to respond to the impact of the pandemic on their daily lives. In May of 2021, we led a second series of workshops in partnership with CAS. The workshops were developed with NIA Centre For The Arts, and provided black and Caribbean members of the public with 4 weeks of hands-on studio work. Most recently, we have led the Gardiner’s online workshops in partnership with Connected North, providing arts programs to Indigenous communities in remote Northern territories. These workshops took place in April 2022 and were a series of online pottery classes to elementary classes in the Yukon and Nunavut.