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Selected exhibitions

2011    

‘Interference’ Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto ON, August.

2011    

‘Bealtaine’ The Glue Factory, Glasgow UK, April-May.

2010    

‘Half knowledge/half,’ Grace and Cark Fyffe Gallery, Glasgow UK, April.

2009    

‘In design’ The Furniture Gallery, Glasgow UK, May.

2008    

‘Entanglement’ Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto ON, October..

2006

‘Mumbo-Jumbo’ G+ Galleries, Toronto ON, November

2006    

‘Blueprints : Diagrams : Models,’ Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto ON, Dec.

2006

‘Drawing 2006,’ John B. Aird Gallery; Toronto ON, January.

2005    

Theory of Everything,’ Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto ON, May.

2005

‘Drawing 2005,’ John B. Aird Gallery; Toronto ON, January.

2005

‘Metamorphosis,’ John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto ON, June.

2004    

‘The Water Project’, O.S.A. 401 Richmond St. Toronto ON, June.

2004

‘Drawing 2004,’ John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto ON, January.

2003

Biennale Internazionale dell’Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy, December

2003   

‘Splendour of Compromise,’ AWOL Gallery, Toronto, February.

2003

‘9/11 Memorial,’ Williamsburg Art and Historical Centre; Brooklyn NY,Sept.

2003

‘Fire Monsters in the Milky Brain,’ Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto ON, May.

 

Professional information

2003-11

Instructor, OCAD University, Faculty of Art, Toronto, Canada.

 

Education

2011

The Glasgow School of Art/University of Glasgow – PhD

1999        

The Pratt Institute; Brooklyn New York, USA – MFA

1986        

Parsons School of Design; New York, NY, USA – BFA

 

Awards

2009-11  

SORSAS Grant recipient, Glasgow UK.

2005       

Ontario Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant

2003             

First Prize, Archives of the Government of Ontario; Celebration of Ontario Artists, John B.Aird Gallery, Toronto ON, May

 

Publications and presentations

2011

“Entity-relation: drawing into space,” ACCESS Volume 30 (1) Ways of Drawing Out: thinking, mapping, designing, communicating beyond the boundaries, RMIT Press, Melbourne AU.

 

2011

Ut pictura poesis; Subtle Technologies Festival 2011, Toronto, Canada, June.

2010    

“Ut pictura poesis,” published in the ‘Proceedings of Drawing out 2010’ (ISBN 978-0-646-53254-7) RMIT University Press.

 

2010

Workshop: ‘Suitably underspecified’; The Drawing Research Network, DRN 2010 Conference, Brighton University, Brighton UK, September 14. 

 

2010

‘Ut pictura poesis;’ presentation at the Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, Diverse Engagement: Drawing in the Margins, Cambridge University, Cambridge UK, June

 

2010

2010     ‘Ut Pictura Poesis;’ presentation at Drawing Out 2010 Conference, RMIT and University of the Arts London, Melbourne AU; April 9.

 

2009

“The way of conflation,” published in Tracey: journal of contemporary drawing research: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ac/tracey/index.html.

 

2009

‘Isometric projections’ presentation at Sound Thought 2009 - University of Glasgow Music

Conference; November 19.

 

2009

The Glasgow School of Art, ‘Suitably Underspecified,’ Glasgow UK, May 13.