Brad Copping: Setting afloat on a river in spate

This digital publication documents Setting afloat on a river in spate, a solo exhibition of artwork by Brad Copping (AGP: June 4, 2016 – September 4, 2016.) Documenting Brad Copping’s 2016 exhibition: Setting afloat on a river in spate, this digital publication offers a dynamic experience with image, video, audio as well as writing by Spencer J. Harrison and Fynn Leitch.

This project is the Art Gallery of Peterborough’s first digital catalogue in a long history of publications which document our exhibitions and contribute to the field of contemporary Canadian Art.

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Installation view of "setting afloat on a river in spate"

close up view of a small canoe made from a Labatt Blue aluminum beer can and suspended from the ceiling. Hundreds of other canoes made from other brands of beer are visible out of focus in the background

Detail of: drifting into hubris, 2016, beer and cider cans, monofilament fishing line, line weights

installation artwork of a rust coloured canoe with mirrored mosaic patterning cut in half and mounted on a wooden plaque that has been installed on a gallery wall

trophy hunted: great white privilege, 2016, found canoe, mirror, walnut, brass

four sculptural works based on canoe forms in a gallery pace

installation view of Brad Copping's, setting afloat on a river featuring (from left): "trophy hunted: great white privilege," "reflections," "way-marking," and "drifting into hubris"

a canoe made from strips of clear hot formed glass in vertical curved strips that are held to each other with pieces of brown sinew/cording to give the effect of a skeletal canoe

Close view of: "way-marking," 2015, hot formed glass, artificial sinew

Installation view of "setting afloat on a river in spate"

Sculpture by Brad Copping. Canoe made from multiple mirror pieces sitting on a dock.

Setting afloat on a river in spate: Brad Copping

a green canoe with a mirror mosaic on the surface sits on a wooden dock with a body of water behind

"reflections," 2016, found cedar strip canoe, carved cherry wood paddles, mirror

installation view of sculptural artworks made from canoes in an art gallery

Installation view of "setting afloat on a river in spate"

Exhibitions

Setting afloat on a river in spate

Jun. 4, 2016 - Sep. 4, 2016

Artist and glass blower Brad Copping spent a year in residence at the Canadian Canoe Museum covering a 16' cedar strip canoe in a mirrored mosaic map. The map charts the waterways from Coppings studio in Apsley, Ontario southward into the Trent Sev...

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Brad Copping: Setting afloat on a river in spate

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Setting afloat on a river in spate

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