Resumé
Featured Artist - Bravo TV’s Star Portraits, November 2010
Competition Winner - Portrait of Theo Fleury, NHL Hockey Player
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2013 Skies over Kenya, Hittite Gallery, Yorkville, Toronto, Ontario
2011 Back to the Sea, Wychwood Community Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2009 Pathos, Wychwood Arts Barns, Toronto, Ontario
2005 Community, Landon Library, London, Ontario
2003 Cambrian Shield, Bliss Gallery, Port Franks, Ontario
2002 Rock Cuts, The Arts Project, London, Ontario
JURIED EXHIBITIONS:
2010 - Jass London, Museum London, London, Ontario
2009 - Propeller Gallery, Unabridged, Unabashed and Unbastardized, Toronto
2008 - Woodstock Art Gallery, Visual Elements, Ontario
2007 - Museum London, Artmart, Ontario
2007 - Fringe, London, Ontario
2005 - Canadian Portrait Academy, London, Ontario
2004 - The Arts Project, The Coves Project, London, Ontario
2003 - Museum London, ArtMart, Ontario
2002 - Museum London, ArtMart, Ontario
2002 - Visual Fringe, London, Ontario
2002 - Field Study, Art works in the Multiple, Gee long, Australia
2001 - Catalyst Arts, From Ritual to Romance, Belfast Ireland
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2009 - Gallery 1313, Fantasy Fashion, Toronto, Ontario
2008 - Thames River Revisited, London, Ontario
2006 - Cube Gallery, Art Against War, Ottawa, Ontario
2005 - Gallery 96, Members Show, Stratford, Ontario
2005 - Guildhouse Gallery, lalalandscapes, London, Ontario
2004 - Gallery 96, Members Show, Stratford, Ontario
2004 - Bliss Gallery, Pt. Franks, Ontario
2003 - Gallery 101, Art vs. War, Ottawa, Ontario
2003 - Gallery 96, Members Show, Gallery 96, Stratford, Ontario
2003 - Forest City Gallery, 30 Something, London, Ontario
2002 - The Arts Project, Simple Pleasures, London, Ontario
2002 - Bliss Gallery, Pt. Franks, Ontario
COLLECTIONS AND ACQUISITIONS:
Corporate - Erie Thames Power, Sudbury General Hospital, Town of Elliot Lake, Ontario College of Art
Private - Across Ontario and the United Kingdom
AWARDS:
London Arts Council Grant, London, 2007
Imadon, Expressions in Chalk Festival, Best Religious Painting 2006, 2007 and Peoples Choice Award, 2007, 2008, London
Brickenden Award, Best Costumes, London, 2004
Brickenden Award, Outstanding Costumes, London, 2007 and 2008
WORK / EXPERIENCE:
Current: Working in film and TV as a set dresser, scenic painter and props builder
Board Member, WBCA, Toronto, Ontario
Studio/Gallery: Covent Garden Market, London Ontario
McIntosh Gallery, Open Air lll &Art Architecture, Project Manager
Forest City Gallery, Fund-raise Coordinator for “Spring Click Gala”
Forest City Gallery, Facilitator for “Wide World Collective”
TheatreWORKS 05’, 06’ Stage workshops, London, Ontario
Juror Deer Trail Studio Tour, Elliot Lake and District, Ontario
Forest City Gallery, Ground Zero, Facilitator/Curator for a Children’s Show
The Arts Project, past board Member, London, Ontario
International Children’s Festival 96': Art Gallery Co-ordinator, Sudbury
Sudbury Theatre Centre: Sudbury
Fringe Nord Festival 95': member of Art Committee, Sudbury
SCARF: Facilitate and curate exhibitions for artists at the Attic Shop, Sudbury
Burlington Fine Arts Guild, Past President, Burlington, Ontario
Burlington Arts Council, Representative Member, Burlington, Ontario
City of Elliot Lake Summer School coordinator and instructor
Elliot Lake Arts Council: coordinator and founding member
PRESS:
"ArtScape", Issues 22 & 23, November/December 2007
June 23 2005 "Scene Magazine", London, Ontario
June 1 2005 London Free Press, London, Ontario
August 7 2004, The Observer, Sarnia, Ontario
July 17 2003, The Observer, Sarnia, Ontario
June 08 2003, The London Free Press, London, Ontario
July/August 2002, The Reporter, London, Ontario
CATALOGUES:
2003 Friends of The Coves, London, Ontario
2002 Field Study, Geelong, Australia
2001 McIntosh Gallery, Open Air, London, Ontario
EDUCATION AND TRAINING:
Small Business Centre, London, Ontario
Props Workshops, Stratford Theatre, Ontario
University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
Industrial Centre for Women, Sudbury, Ontario
Sault College of Applied Arts & Technology, Elliot Lake, Ontario
Fine Arts & Graphics, Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Ontario
Hereford College of Art, Hereford, England
Portrait workshops; Yugi Wang, Juan Martinez and Daniel Green
ASSOCIATIONS PAST & PRESENT:
| Visual Art | Theatre |
|---|---|
| CARFAC | IATSE |
| Canadian Portrait Artist Society | Theatre Direct |
| Portrait Society of Canada | Ptarmigan Players |
| Portrait Society of America | Randolph Academy of the Performing Arts |
| Street Painting Society | The Grand Theatre |
| Gallery 96, Stratford | Port Stanley Festival Theatre |
| Forest City Gallery | The Sudbury Theatre Centre |
| Burlington Fine Arts Guild | Theatre Nemisis |
| SCARF, Sudbury Centre Arts | Fountainhead Theatre |
| LaLa Land Studios | Ausable Theatre |