Sensory Synapses
Ceramic, glaze, 22k gold lustre
29x19x15 inches
Announcing Falling Awake, an upcoming solo exhibition this summer at the Ferry Building Gallery in West Vancouver, BC.
Reception and Artist Talk dates and details forthcoming.
August 16 to September 4, 2022
Back to School 2020
Ceramic, glaze, 22k gold lustre
Back to School and Lover’s Eye appear in this exhibition Fertile Ground with Modern Eden Gallery…a special presentation at the 56th Conference of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) in Sacramento, CA. Our booth will feature new works by Susannah Montague, Crystal Morey, Calvin Ma, and Erika Sanada.
On View: March 16-19, 2022
Register here to attend
Modern Eden Gallery
1100 Sutter Street, San Francisco
Lovers Eye
Ceramic, glaze, mother of pearl lutre, 22k gold lustre and decals
23x15x8 inches
Lover’s Eye appeared in the group exhibition Lore: Myth, Magic, and the Macabre at the Modern Eden Gallery.
Modern Eden Gallery
1100 Sutter Street, San Francisco
October 9–30, 2021
We are pleased to present our latest group exhibition, Lore at the gallery. Lore features works inspired by myth, magic, and the macabre. Each artwork, reflecting on the tenets of Dark Romanticism, reveal the artistic fascination with the irrational and the otherworldly. This exhibition features over 50 hand-selected artists from the Bay Area and beyond.
Saint Corona
Ceramic, glaze, 22k gold lustre and vintage decals, 30x16x14 inches
St. Corona is included in The Ceramics Congress Canada Exhibition…
Okay so i really didn’t mean to drop off over the past few weeks, my apologies! But I promise I had a really good reason – I’ve been working behind the scenes on The Ceramics Congress which starts tomorrow! The event goes for 5 days, is jam-packed full of workshops from international artists, talks, fun challenges, artists markets, film fest and a HUGE online exhibition of 88 artists. I literally can’t name it all there is so much.
So I really hope you’ll join us this weekend. We already have over 5000 attendees signed up from around the world!
- Curator Carol Epp
May 27 to December 21, 2021
Saint Corona
Ceramic, glaze, 22k gold lustre and vintage decals
30x16x14 inches
Saint Corona appeared in the group exhibition, curated by Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, Midnight Garden in the Modern Eden Gallery.
Modern Eden Gallery
1100 Sutter Street, San Francisco
October 24–November 13, 2020
Modern Eden Gallery proudly presents Midnight Garden, our fourth major group exhibition curated by Beautiful Bizarre Magazine. Over 90 artists from across the globe including the winners of the 2020 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize have been invited to create an original work considering the themes of nighttime, growth, darkness, and lush flora.
G’ddy Up!
Newzones Gallery of Contemporary Art
Saturday, July 6 – Saturday, August 24, 2019
Media Release:
Newzones is pleased to announce the return of “G’ddy Up!”, an annual rotating group exhibition that coincides with the Calgary Stampede.
“G’ddy Up!” will survey how Newzones’ artists explore contemporary cowboy culture, and how they implement aspects of this culture in formal practices through painting, photography, mixed media and sculpture.
While “G’ddy Up!” is sure to please those looking for some good ol’ western iconography, it will also demonstrate that the ‘Wild West’ has changed – and has much more to offer these days than just the iconic cowboy.
“G’ddy Up!” will exhibit artworks by artists who diffuse the image of the ‘Wild West’ in a ‘West’ that is elegant, cosmopolitan and vibrant; a ‘West’ where contemporary artists live and work, while creating world class art.
The Calgary Stampede brings the city to life with pulsating cowboy culture, both new and old, and Newzones is no exception!
Artists included: Dianne Bos, Sophie DeFrancesca, Casey McGlynn, Susannah Montague, Don Pollack, David Robinson, Kevin Sonmor and Samantha Walrod
Exhibition runs from Saturday, July 6 – Saturday, August 24, 2019
Lucid Dreams
Newzones Gallery of Contemporary Art
March 17 - April 27, 2019
Media Release:
Newzones is pleased to present “Lucid Dreams”, a solo exhibition by leading Canadian female sculptor, Susannah Montague.
Susannah Montague’s ceramic figurative sculptures are finely detailed, hugely intricate, and loaded with religious and mythological imagery. Montague draws her inspiration from mysticism and esotericism, touching on daydreams and the fantastical elements that haunt our nights. Within the eerie beauty of these ceramic sculptures is an exploration of the intersection between dreams and reality, while at the same time, fusing innocence and corruption in the flowers, dolls, lizards, toys and skulls that fervidly explode in these contemporary baroque compositions, asking us to revel in the beauty of the absurd.
Montague is based on Bowen Island, BC. She received her BFA from Emily Carr University and OCAD University.
Montague’s sculptures can be found in private collections all over the world. Her work was the subject of a CBC Arts Documentary in August 2018.
Deck the Walls
November 29, 2018 to January 12, 2019
Newzones Gallery of Contemporary Art
730 Eleventh Avenue Southwest, Calgary
“Ever evolving, Deck the Walls! will present itself as an entire wall of small-to-medium sized artworks, perfect for gift-giving this holiday season. This salon-inspired exhibition will aim to entice viewers to give the spectacular gift of art for the holidays."
Announcing new representation in Calgary at Newzones Gallery of Contemporary Art “…one of North America’s leading contemporary art galleries representing prominent Albertan, Canadian and international artists. The gallery’s program has an emphasis on process oriented artwork that challenges both the traditional use of materials and formal aesthetics."
Looking forward to working with co-directors Helen and Tamar Zenith, ass’t director Sabrina Sullivan and preparator Brandon Hearty.
Watch for my first exhibition at Newzones in December.
My Of Things I Can't Unthink show will be at one of my favourite galleries, The Elissa Cristall Gallery from June 7 – June 30, 2018. I will be giving an Artist Talk at the gallery on June 16th at 1:00 pm to coincide with the South Granville Art Walk. I'd love to see you there if you can make it!
"Susannah Montague’s art is as humorous as it is subversive. Her pieces are a daydream in clay, wryly communicating the intransience of the human condition. Stepping into her studio is like discovering an Eighteenth-Century Cabinet of Curiosity. Her art is a collection of shamanistic characters which imbibe the peculiar, scientific and mythical qualities involved in creation. Rollicking, cherubic figures wearing masks and antlers frolic among symbols of decay, in a world that is equal parts shadowy and lighthearted. Combined the images evoke a whimsical narrative of folk tales, childhood fantasies, dreams and nightmares."
Susannah Montague is a British born, Bowen Island-based ceramic sculptor. She earned her BFA from Emily Carr University and Ontario University of Art and Design.
June 7 – June 30, 2018 | Reception and Artist Talk: Saturday, June 16, 1 p.m. |
I'm excited to have an exhibition Of Things I Can't Unthink at the Seymour Public Art Gallery from March 3 – April 14, 2018. I will also be hosting a Hands-on Workshop on Sunday March 18. For full details and to register go here.
"Ceramic sculptor Susannah Montague’s highly symbolic and eerily beautiful sculptures at once draw you in and repel you. In each of Montague’s surreal porcelain sculptures, there is narrative to be discovered. Using a combination of hand building, press molds, and slip casting to build her sculptures, she also references traditions from ceramic fine-craft and art history. In her most recent body of work, Montague uses symbols such as fading flowers, bubbles, skulls, and insects to represent death and the transient nature of life. These symbols, interspersed with casts of toys including dolls, helicopters, and bunnies, take on a slightly sinister feeling in their modern compositions. Montague’s exhibition examines the cycles in our lives and asks us to revel in the beauty of the absurd.
Susannah Montague is a British born, Bowen Island-based ceramic sculptor. She earned her BFA from Emily Carr University and Ontario University of Art and Design.
March 3 – April 14, 2018 | Reception: Saturday, March 10, 2 – 4 p.m. | Artist Talk and Tour: Sunday, April 1, 2 p.m.
Hands-on Workshop with Susannah Montague: Sunday, March 18. Full details and to registration here."
- Seymour Public Art Gallery
