2017 DANCE / CRAFT Video. With dancers, Heather Dotto and Joe Ink interacting with ceramic objects in Debra Sloan’s studio. The beginning of the DNCE / CRAFT project with Craft Council of BC, culminating in 2022 performances with new choreography, composed music, lightshow and film, SFU theatre.
2024 “The Who, the Why, the What,” FUSION MAGAZINE Vol 48, number 3
Selected as a featured established artist to write about the people, the reasons, and the objects that have influenced my practice, rather than process.
Available at Fusion Magazine
2025 Essay, “A Home for Objects”, Written In Clay, 2025
In 2024, editors Stephanie Rebick and Michael Prokopow of “The Place of Objects, the John David Lawrence Collection” catalogue for Written In Clay, the 2025 exhibition at Vancouver Art Gallery, invited colleagues of John Lawrence to write about what interested them in his collection. I chose to write about how his mindful practice of collection has provided and protected invaluable information in identifying BC ceramicists and their work, and laid the foundation for the BC Ceramic Mark Registry.
Hosted by the Craft Council of BC
2025 Collectors and Collections, Ceramics Return to the Vancouver Art Gallery, Ceramics Now Magazine, Romania, Nov. 2025.
John Lawrence’s maverick immersion into the cultural ecosystem of his neighbourhood and his city contributes enormously to a greater appreciation of what the material arts tell us about ourselves and our history. His dedication to learning about the ceramics of British Columbia has infected others and through the acts of collection, and of knowledge-gathering, Lawrence has initiated what we hope will be an amendment in the status and situation of the ceramic and material arts of British Columbia.
Available at Ceramics Now Magazine
2019 Featured artist profile, “Interlinked Themes, Multiple Meanings, the Oeuvre of the Canadian Ceramicist, Debra Sloan”. Dr. Ronnie Watt, Feature Profile, Ceramics of South Africa, Vol 16.1, Winter
https://www.debrasloan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Ronnie-Watts.Debra-Sloan-Article_CSA-Winter-2019.pdf
2022 Included in review of Dance/Craft, STIR Magazine, Janet Smith
https://www.createastir.ca/articles/dance-craft-joe-laughlin-review
2024 Review of Les Grandes Dames, Stir Magazine, Emily Lyth. July 15, 2024
https://www.createastir.ca/articles/craft-council-of-bc-les-grandes-dames-debra-sloan?rq=Debra%20Sloan
2024 Review of Les Grandes Dames, Amy Gogarty, Ceramics Now
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2025 Included in review of Craft Council of BC exhibition Walking Alongside Trauma, Emily Lyth
https://www.createastir.ca/articles/craft-council-of-bc-walking-alongside-trauma
2025 Included in Craft and Craftism, A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Ceramic, Fibre, and Glass Artists in Canada, The Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art at Concordia University. A three-volume e-publication co-edited by Loren Lerner, Janice Anderson, Shannon Stride, and Karine Antaki.