2025 Author, Bill Rennie – His Realms and Havens, Architectural Marvels in Clay, Sassamatt Publishing.
Bill Rennie was a Vancouver based artist/ Activist whose practice spanned from 1976 until his death in 2015. He was a multifaceted character whose elaborate ceramic architectural constructs speak both to his aesthetic ad his activist objectives. He was a defender of the arts and a voluble and effective advocate for gender rights. His social contributions and his remarkable architectural sculptures remain unsung. This book is intended to share his story across Canada and beyond.
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2025 Author, Enduring and Enigmatic, The Work of Thomas Kakinuma, Sassamatt Publishing.
Thomas Kakinuma’s story runs parallel to the mayhem of global events unfolding the tumultuous 20th Century. He arrived in Vancouver in 1937 at the onset of the Sino-Japanese war. As WWII broke out, he moved across the continent to attend art colleges in Toronto, then New York, and, with the advent of McCarthyism, he returned to Vancouver in 1950. From that time his humanistic and assessable ceramic practice has remained in the public and the curatorial lines of vision.
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2020 “Imaging and Imagining the Inheritance of Colonialism, the work of Heidi Mackenzie”, New Ceramics Magazine, Germany, 2021.
Heidi McKenzie invited me to write an article about her familial photographs on ceramic forms, identifying the systemic racism and colonial attitudes around immigration that her family first encountered in the Caribbean and then in Canada.
New Ceramics, June 2021

2020 “Seasalt Lizards and Clay, My Ceramics from the Mediterranean to the Rockies”, Santo Mignosa’s memoir, Granville Island Publishing.
Santo invited me to write the Foreword, covering our long acquaintance and describing his contributions to BC ceramics.
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2018 “The Art of Thomas Kakinuma”, catalogue.
Essays by myself, Dr. Carol E. Mayer, Allan Collier and Stephanie Renaud. Photographed by the late Ken Mayer.
Curators Kiriko Watanabe and the late Darrin Morrison of the West Vancouver Museum were alerted to the Kakinuma article, knew of several collectors, and facilitated a large retrospective of Kakinuma’s work in January 2018. The first showing of his work since 1969 at the VAG.

The Role of Equestrian Ridge Tiles as Historical Narrative, by Debra Sloan and Peter Smith.
Up on the Roof explores traditional equestrian clay ridge tiles that from the middle ages adorned rooflines in Britain and Europe. The practice died out by the early 1800s in the UK and now those last and rare remnants are found mainly in West Country museums. Up on the Roof recounts how Bernard Leach and fellow members of the Old Cornwall Society revived the rendition in the 1920s. love the last decades memories faded once again, until, in 2014, the Leach Pottery instigated research and response. The effect of the tiles, architectural adornment, clarifies the role of art in the public realm, where it install interaction and engage

2017/2018 “Up on the Roof, Bernard Leach and the Equestrian Tile Tradition”, Debra Sloan and Peter Smith, 2nd edition, 2018 (first edition 2017), Sassamatt Publications
A treatise on the tradition and the rare equestrian ceramics roof tiles found in the West Country, and Bernard Leach’s connections to contemporary examples.

2017 “Thomas Kakinuma, 1908-1982”
A treatise on Kakinuma, upon invitation from Barry Morrison, editor/ publisher of the website Studio Ceramics Canada.
Available at Studio Ceramics
Great assistance from Canadian Library archives.

2017 / 2009 “Seeking the Nuance”, Glenn Lewis, Phyllis Schwartz, Debra Sloan, 2nd Edition 2017, first edition 2009, Sassamatt Publishing.
A treatise on glazes from the Leach pottery tradition used by Glenn Lewis (Leach apprentice, 1961-63) while teaching ceramics at UBC in the 1970s, and also refers to the subsequent influences imported by the six apprentices from BC who studied with Leach, from BC 1958 – 1977.
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