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.
“NEW WORK ALERT! Oh my word, Canadian artist Susannah Montague has done it again. She just sent me a peek at her latest work, “Back to School, 2020” … do you think these twins look ready? Here are a few snippets Susannah shared with me about this work”
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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
10 page spread in dpi Magazine Taiwan.
See the complete article PDF here.
Covid Kiss
Ceramic, glaze, gold lustre
30x13x11 inches
Brand new work in the latest issue 31 of Beautiful Bizarre Magazine.
Beautiful Bizarre Magazine is an informative, insightful and inspiring contemporary art magazine that has captured the hearts and minds of an engaged audience of artists, enthusiasts, collectors and galleries locally in Australia and around the world.
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.
The Golden Fleece
Ceramic, glaze, 22k gold luster
23 x 13 x 14 inches
Honoured to be among the top 3 artists!
Yasha Young Projects Sculpture Award Winners 2020
3rd Place - Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize
Susannah Montague’s highly symbolic and eerily beautiful sculptures at once draw you in, and repel you. In each the surreal porcelain works, there is a 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. 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 work examines the cycles in our lives and asks us to revel in the beauty of the absurd. Susannah Montague is a British born ceramic sculptor, based on Bowen Island, BC. She received her BFA from Emily Carr University and OCAD University.
Crown of Swans
Ceramic, glaze, pearl lustre and 22k gold
34.5 x 19 x 10 inches
Thanks to Portia Priegert and Galleries West for this lovely article.
Ceramic artist Susannah Montague whips up sugary confections with elaborate toppings of curlicues and cherubs, flowers and frou-frous, swans and seashells, plus all other manner of other precious whimsies. Decorative, excessive and absolutely delightful, her sculptures are both visual marvels and stellar displays of technical virtuosity. But their appeal is also linked, in part, to her exploration of darker themes from childhood stories and nightmares.