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Curriculum Vitae
Undergraduate studies at The Ontario College of Art. 1974 - 1976
Graduate (Honours) Emily Carr College of Art and Design. 1983 - 1987

    Projects and Commissions

  • 2005 "River and Roots" Collaboration with Bruce Walthers, (tiles, design work). Concrete stump, rock and roots including 2 faces by Ken Clarke. For the City of North Vancouver. Located at corner of Keith Road and Mahon Ave.
  • 2002 to 2003 Cinque Terre Project on Beach Ave West end Vancouver. These are 9 different architectural details cast on site in agilia concrete installed around top of building. Developer BobLanducci 604 6448765 and Dominion Fairmile Construction Ltd 604 631 1046
  • 2000 - 2001 Italian Garden Project. A set of 14 sculptures, many cast in editions of four, installed at the Italian Gardens in East Hastings Park in Vancouver, BC. Project done in collaboration with Sandra Moore MAIBC ba BArch of Birmingham and Wood, Architects and Phillips Farevaag Smallenberg, landscape architects.
  • 1998 Grizzly Bear Life sized sculpture for Trizec-Hahn Properties Ltd., Royal Centre Mall, Vancouver, BC.
  • 1997 Art Deco Reliefs. Four sections, 30 inches wide by 24 feet tall; in collaboration with Hoy Jacobson for the Delano Project on West 4th Avenue in Vancouver.
  • 1996 - Business Enterprise. Production of Architectural elements.
  • 1995 Bison. Life sized, high relief sculpture, cast in concrete. Made in collaboration for Syncrude Canada at Fort McMurray, Alberta.
  • 1993 to Present - Rock Formations. In collaboration with Doug Harle of Image Concrete; ferro-cement water features for private and public sites.
  • 1992 Exploration Grant. To conduct experiments on large glass relief casting.
  • 1991 Glass Relief Mural (Sports Figures). Approximately 200 square feet. Made in collaboration with Norman Courtney for University of Oregon Sports Complex.
  • 1988 - 1989 Tribute to Baseball. Sculpted low relief panels (330 square feet) and cast plaster molds in collaboration with Lutz Haufschilik for the Skydome in Toronto.
  • 1986 Animal Sculture. Cast and modelled in collaboration with Micael Sprogis in Paris, France.
  • 1985 Sculpted Rock Formations. Aquarium exhibits in the West Edmonton Mall, Alberta.

    Group Exhibitions

  • October 1998 "A Gathering", sculpture, Vancouver Community Arts Council.
  • November 1996 Exhibition of the large sculpture "Reaching Figures" at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre.
  • October 1997 D.V.B.I.A sculpture contest finalists at the MacMillan Bloedel Building in Vancouver.
  • May 1995 Figure Drawings at Basic Inquiry Studio, Vancouver
  • October 1993 Exibition of "Tweakers" at the Soul Gallery, Vancouver
  • October 1988 Exhibition of "Decadence" at Artropolis, Vancouver

    Solo Exhibitions

  • 1990 to present Sculpture and drawings displayed on a permanent basis in the gallery space attached to my studio at 233 Main Street, in Vancouver.
  • February 1997 Retrospective of drawings and reliefs at The Talking Stick Gallery, Vancouver
  • January 1997 "Grotesques". Eleven Masks, at Delniro's, Vancouver.
  • June 1995 Sculpture and drawing at Basic Inquiry Gallery
  • March 1995 Exhibition of sculpture "Paperboy" at Talking Stick Gallery, Vancouver

    Publications

  • May 1989 "Decadence" featured in "Descant Summer Reader #61"

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