Jack sures biography

Jack Sures (November 20, 1934 – May 12, 2018) was a Canadian ceramic artist and post-secondary academic.
Jack Sures (1934-2018) was born in Brandon, Manitoba.
Jack Sures was a major figure in ceramic art in Canada, both as an artist and an educator.

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Jack Sures

SURES, Jack (1934-2018)
Artist, Educator

Jack Sures was born in Brandon, Manitoba in 1934. He attended the University of Manitoba (BFA 1957) and Michigan State University (MA 1959, Painting and Printmaking).

Returning to Manitoba Sures taught Junior High School in Winnipeg for one year. In 1960 he left Canada again, this time taking up residence in London, England, where he worked part-time at the Chelsea Pottery, part-time making ceramic cats, studied classical guitar under Len Williams and pursued his own painting in a one room apartment/studio. In 1961-62 he travelled extensively throughout Europe and the Middle East; visiting galleries and museums and working for a time in Cyprus and Israel.

In 1962 Sures returned to Canada and began, what he refers to as his "true ceramic education". He established a ceramic studio on Winnipeg's Portage Avenue where he became inventor, teacher and artist. He built Manitoba's first gas kiln with the help of colleague Ron Burke; built several wheels including one from a milk separator; taught class

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Saskatchewan Artist

Bandicoots - by Jack Sures

Jack Sures

Jack Sures was born in 1934 in Brandon, Manitoba, and grew up in Melita and Winnipeg. He completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the the University of Manitoba in 1957, and his masters degree in Painting and Printmaking from Michigan State University in 1959. He then returned to Manitoba to teach junior high school for one year before travelling around Europe and the Middle East for several years, visiting galleries and working in London and in Cyprus and Israel.

In 1962, he returned to Canada to set up his own ceramics studio in Winnipeg, where he worked until 1965. He then moved to Regina to set up the Ceramics and Printmaking program at the University of Saskatchewan's Regina Campus. During this time, ceramics in Regina began to flourish, and Sures had the opportunity to work with both established artists and gifted student including David Gilhooly, Victor Cicansky, Ann James, and Marilyn Levine. Sures was known for his energetic dedication to both his art and his teaching. Levine said, “He came in at eight a.

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Jack Sures at the National Gallery

At age 83, influential Regina ceramicist Jack Sures has finally made it into the National Gallery of Canada.

Sures is the recipient this year of the $25,000 Saidye Bronfman Award for Fine Craft. That means examples of his work, where the natural world blends with the fantastic, can be found until Aug. 5 in the National Gallery exhibition honouring him and the six artists and one curator who received a 2018 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts.

The National Gallery does not own any of Sures’ work because the Ottawa institution does not officially collect or exhibit craft, even though it has a large historical collection of utilitarian silver objects.

“The National Gallery has always been elitist when it comes to crafts,” Sures says in an interview.

Thus, exhibited pieces made by Sures – a plate, a wall hanging and an urn decorated with his trademark bandicoots – were borrowed from Regina, either from his dealer, the Slate Gallery, or the MacKenzie Art Gallery, one of several art gal