Lindsey Fair Website: www.lindseyfair.ca Telephone(home): 6132177249 Media Category: Jewellery Other Category: found object Email: linds@lindseyfair.ca
Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: For 2009 / 2010 I participated in (or am registered to) in The Gift Giving Shows (juried), Art Among the Ruins, Funky Art & Craft Show (juried), Kollaboration (invitation only) at the Sandra Whitton Gallery, The New Art Festival in Ottawa (juried), the Maker’s Hand (juried) and the Kingston Arts Council Juried Art Salon. I am currently the featured jewellery artist for April at the Ontario Crafts Council Gallery on Queen West.
On top of creating my own work I teach wirework, metalsmithing and jewellery design at St. Lawrence College and the Lapidary Club. I also am a board member of the Arts Council, founder of the Kingston Artist Directory and the Artist Roundtable Discussion Group.
Artist Statement: All of my work incorporates pure, unaltered glass found on the shores of the great lakes and oceans. I find my inspiration from nature, spending a lot of time on the beach or shorelines with my head down. Growing up my family used to imagine wonderful stories of how each piece of glass was a treasure from a pirate ship or from a fancy ship such as the Titanic. Now with the shift from glassware to plastics and improved recycling programs it is becoming increasingly difficult to find beach glass. As these ‘gems’ become more rare, I feel I am doing my part to reduce, reuse and recycle someone else’s garbage into beautiful works of art.
Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: One of a Kind Toronto, Muskoka Craft Show, Circle Craft Vancouver are just a few shows we do.
Artist Statement: My focus is to promote green living through my art. Glass is a wonderful product to recycle and with ingenuity and creativity one of a kind pieces are developed.
Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: Shown at:
LG Fashion Week, March 2010; Queen West Art Crawl 2009; Art Market @ 918 Bathurst 2009; Speakeasy 2008
Artist Statement: I believe it is my use of ambiguous and unexpected materials that differentiates my work from that of other designers; in transforming what most would call waste – rusted metal, industrial, salvaged and antique items – my pieces not only recall the first life of each object, the footprint originally stamped in its creation and use, but also suggest the infinite possibilities for its reuse. I seek to boldly ask the world, “What is beautiful? What is valuable? What might you be overlooking?”
Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: I am a self-taught photographer who has exhibited frequently in the Toronto area in the last few years.
2009
Queen West Art Crawl Sept
2008
One of a Kind Show Nov
Queen West Art Crawl Sept
Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition July
Beaches Arts and Crafts Show June
Toronto Art Expo March
Other Relevant Shows:
2007
“Stronger Than Pixels” (group show)
(Contact Photography Festival)
Shozo Ushiroguchi Gallery May
2006
“Cambodia – Passages”
Month of Photography Festival
Enfield Fox, Mississauga Sept
“Tibet in Toronto”
(Contact Photography Festival)
Tibet Kitchen, Toronto May
2005
“Cambodia – A Few Images”
If … Art & Fashion Gallery
Prague, Czech Republic Oct
Artist Statement: Patrick Klauss is a Toronto based photographer who has travelled extensively over the last fifteen years and has always been drawn to “sacred spots” around the world. He has a photojournalistic style and an artistic viewpoint that he uses to creatively document his journeys.
Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: Gradutated from Graphic Design/St.Clair College/Windsor Ont.have been a working artist in one form or another for the last 20yrs...my work is in collectins worldwide....Recent Shows:"One of a Kind"Toronto/"Art in the Park"Windsor/Kawartha Festival of the Arts/Fennolen Falls/"Home County Folk Festival"(won "Peoples Choice Award")2010/"Artworks"/Kitchener/"Artisans at the Distillery...painting is my passion and I am grateful for all the experiences it has brought me.
Artist Statement: Kym Believes that we are all "Artists"at heart and is thrilled when her work evokes an emotion,a smile,a chuckle,or a knowing nod.
Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: Alexis Kostuk works as the manager in the cooperative studio Jewel Envy while maintaining her own business under the name Glaciale. In January of 2007 she returned to Toronto after attending a one-year intensive jewellery course at Instituto Europeo di Design in Milan, Italy. She became interested in jewellery while attending Ontario College of Art and Design.
Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: SOLO
Mind's Eye, Revisited, Northern Public Library, Toronto, May 2010.
Portfolio show, Terence Robert Gallery, Ottawa, 2009
Mind's Eye, galleryDK, Toronto, 2009
Circa: An Urban Retrospect, NYCL, Toronto, 2008
GROUP
Photorama 2009, Gallery TPW, 2009
Queen West Art Crawl, 2009
Sunnyside Beach Juried Art Show, 2009
Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, 2009
Festival International Montreal en Arts, 2009
Artwherk!, Art Gallery of Ontario, 2009
Riverdale Art Walk, 2009
Contacting T.O., CONTACT Festival, 2008
AWARDS
1st Prize for Outstanding Artist, Sunnyside Beach Juried Art Show, 2009
Best Local Artist/Photographer, Xtra! Magazine readers poll, 2009
Best of Show, Queen West Art Crawl, 2008
Recent Exhibitions, Work AND Education: 2005 - 2007 Canadian Gemmological Association, earned FCGmA (Fellow of the Canadian Gemmological Association)
1998 – 2001 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax NS, earned a Bachelor of Fine Art (Interdisciplinary) with a focus on jewellery design/fabrication and printmaking
Shows
2009 Queen West Art Crawl, Toronto, ON
St. Clair Artwalk, Toronto, ON
2008 Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Toronto ON
The Clothing Spring Show, Toronto ON
Cabbagetown Arts & Crafts Show, Toronto ON
St.Clair Artwalk, Toronto ON
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