Education

1960-64 B.A.Hons, University of London, UK
1965-66 L-es-L, Universite de Lille, France
1965-68 Ph D, University of London, UK

1998-2000 Diploma Programme, Victoria College of Art
2000-2001 Graduate Programme, Victoria College of Art

Exhibitions

Solo and Shared

2004 "Spring Greens", Martin Batchelor Gallery, Victoria, BC.

2003 "My Red Garden", Oceanside Arts Council Gallery, Parksville, B.C.
"Red Selection", Promenade Gallery (café annex), Sidney, B.C.
"Figure it out", Fran Willis Gallery, Victoria, B.C. ( a three person show; I had 36 prints)

2002 "For the Love of Red Paint", Plaskett Gallery at the Massey Theatre, New
Westminster, B.C.
" Children in the Tuileries Gardens", Artist in Profile, Victoria Public Library.


2001 "Outer Skins and Inner Spaces", MacPherson Gallery, University of
Victoria, Victoria, B.C.

Juried

2004 3rd Lessedra World Art Print Annual, National Palace of Culture, Sophia, Bulgaria.
artSpacifica, Delta, BC, Award of Merit

2003 Fine Arts 2003, Sooke, B.C.
First Sidney Fine Arts Show, Sidney B.C.

2002 Montreal International Miniature Print Biennial.
Fine Arts 2002, Sooke, B.C., Jurors' Choice Award
"Here's looking at us", Arts Council of Greater Victoria Gallery,
Third Tokyo International Miniprint Triennale, Tama Art University, Tokyo

2001 Fine Arts 2001, Sooke, B.C.
"Look 2001", Rogue Gallery, Victoria, B.C.
"artwork 2001", B.C.Festival of the Arts, Fort St John, B.C.

2000 Fine Arts 2000, Sooke, B.C.

Group

2003,"Raven/Shapeshifter", Fran Willis Gallery, Victoria, BC
"Evolution", Victoria College of Art Alumni/ae Show, Maltwood Gallery, Victoria
New Work, Ground Zero Printmakers, Xchanges Gallery, Victoria, B.C
Second Annual GLBT Show, Unitarian Church, Victoria, B.C.
"Small in Nature", Oceanside Arts Council, Parksville, B.C.

2002 Christmas Show, Fran Willis Gallery, Victoria, B.C.
"Evolution", Victoria College of Art Alumni/ae Show, The Gallery at the Mac, Victoria.
"The Artist's Voice", Fran Willis Gallery, Victoria, B.C.
Malaspina Printmakers Society Summer Show, Vancouver, B.C.
Summer Show, Fran Willis Gallery, Victoria, B.C.
"Look 2002", Salt Spring B.C.
"Micro Macro", National Library of South Africa, Cape Town.

2001 Christmas Show, Fran Willis Gallery, Victoria, B.C.
"Small Works", Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, B.C.
"Go Figure", Fran Willis Gallery, Victoria, B.C.
"Micro-Macro Reprise", Langham Court Theatre, Victoria, B.C.
"Victoria College of Art alumni/ae Exhibition", The Gallery at the Mac,
Victoria, B.C.
Summer Show, Fran Willis Gallery, Victoria, B.C.
"Just Get the Photos Ray, OK?", 2001 Associates of VCA, EC4 Gallery
Victoria, B.C.
"Micro Macro", CAC Gallery, Victoria, B.C.
"The Queer Experience" Martin Batchelor Gallery, Victoria, B.C.,
"Inky Fingers", Ground Zero Printmakers, The Gallery at the Mac,
Victoria, B.C.
"Cavities", (S.A.R.C.) Selkirk Gallery, Victoria, B.C.
"Self Portraits", Artropolis 2001, Vancouver B.C.
2000 "Christmas Show", Fran Willis Gallery, Victoria, B.C.
"Print Indaba", Arts Association of Pretoria and Ground Zero Printmakers
Xchanges Gallery, Victoria, B.C.
"Victoria College of Art Alumni/ae Exhibition", The Gallery at the Mac,
Victoria, B.C.
"VCA Graduate Class Exhibition", Blanshard Building, Victoria, B.C.
"Visions of Pride", Martin Batchelor Gallery, Victoria
"VCA Graduation Exhibition", The Gallery at the Mac, Victoria, B.C.

1999 "Visual Knowledge: Women's Worlds in Art", Maltwood Gallery, Victoria, B.C.

Upcoming

2004 Untitled solo, Arts Council Gallery, Victoria, BC, opening September 30th.
Monotypes, group, Malaspina Printmakers Gallery, Vancouver, BC, October 5th

2005 Three person show, Campbell River Art Gallery, date to be arranged.

Artist's statement

A longtime professor of French literature and of Women's Studies, literary critic, author and photographer, I became a student at the Victoria College of Art, graduating as an associate in 2001. Since then I have had seven solo shows in B.C., had work (almost always prints) in twelve juried shows and taken part in thirty one group exhibitions. I have had prints selected for the Third Tokyo International Miniprint Triennial 2002, the Montreal International Miniprint Biennial 2002, the Third Lessedra World Art Print Annual in Sophia, Bulgaria 2004, showed prints in the National Library of South Africa, Cape Town and won Juror's Awards in the local shows at Sooke and Delta B.C. My interest in movement seems to make me somewhat unusual amongst printmakers.

I work with gesture, movement and shadow, pattern and texture. My prints are figurative and made in series with a pochoir technique. They suggest stories, which are left to the viewer's imagination as "characters" shift and multiply, each print different from, yet born out of, the one before. Split selves and shadows emerge as figures move through space and, by implication, through time. Method and subject work together: the process creates shadows on the plate as the original form meets itself, dissolves and is renewed. This means that although it is not possible to make identical multiples, it is possible to make an long succession of prints, related by ink colour and shared "character", which are all different and all originals.

The state of today's world demands reflection. I find myself brooding on the scale, variety and complexity of human problems, searching for visual structures by which to express the joys, struggles and devastations that surround and overwhelm us all. I find that structure in Dante's "Divine Comedy" (whether or not one accepts his core religious belief). The work begins in the inferno at the centre of the world, full of "hot spots", horror and despair, passes over sea and land where people struggle and plod in semidarkness up to the joys and freedom of light and air. The shape of the world, the elements essential to life, description of the human condition and commentary on the politics of the time---every thing is there, ready to accommodate the shifts in my experience and the different aspects of my work.

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