After
university and art school degrees in fine art history and printmaking my first group show was at the Gallery of Photography and
a one-person show at the Artist's Gallery, both in Vancouver. The shows primarily highlighted photo-etchings. see
image 1
Image 1
During this early period the Canada Council Art Bank collected
a serigraph titled "Lethbridge Sculpture Project." See
image 2
Image 2
Exhibitions followed at venues such as the
University of Calgary Art Gallery (now Nickel Arts Museum) and
a number of national and provincial juried shows. A major purchase
by the Alberta Government of a painting titled "Foreigner"
see image 3
Image 3
was
followed by an important show at the Mira Godard Gallery where
a number of large corporations (Nova, Trizex, Lavalin to name
a few) and private individuals became ongoing patrons. See
images 4 & 5
Image 4
Image 5
Public
shows continued at many galleries including the Alberta College
of Art (now ACAD.) through to the collaborative works with Alice
Mansell on the bioGraphics series at places such as the Dalhousie
Art Gallery in Halifax and the Evergreen Centre in Coquitlam.
See image 6
Image 6
Throughout
the period of the 80s and 90s I enabled the independence of the
Alberta College of Art (ACA) from the Southern Alberta Institute
of Technology (SAIT) through my position of head of that institute,
served on the 1988 Winter Olympics Exhibition Committee and founded
the Canadian Centre of the Arts at Owen Sound (CCAOS) in Ontario.
Along the way and into the 2000s I have continued my art practice
while becoming increasingly involved in new media. I set up one
of the first on-line art journals, EVA (the Electronic Visual
Arts journal) as a list server back in the early 90s and developed
conservation software (Valadier) in collaboration with AT Conservators
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Image 8
See resume
for a detailed biography
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