ELIZABETH ROY
eclaireroy@gmail.com
elizabethroystudio.com
Education
1982-84 M.F.A. Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, U.S.A.
1978-82 Honours B.A., Fine Art, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Solo Exhibitions
2001 Predicamentia, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC
1988 Counting the Rings, Forest City Gallery, London, Ontario
2016 The Other Side, La Galerie du CCFM, St. Boniface, Manitoba
Selected Group Exhibitions
2016 Voices for the Vote ,Borealis Gallery, Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
2014-15 Backspace Forward, Manitoba Craft Council, Juried Exhibition (three venues),
Quarry Park Heritage Arts Centre, Stonewall, Manitoba
Manitoba Crafts Museum & Library, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Pembina Hills Arts Centre, Morden, Manitoba
2013 Felt::Feutres, Contemporary Canadian Felt, Saltspring Island,BC
2012 Contextile Trienal Textil e Arte Contempranea. Porto, Portugal,
1 September–14 October, 2012
curators: Virginija Vitikiené, Paulo Leocadio, Pedro Loureiro, Helder Sousa, Lucia David
2012 Slow Craft, Manitoba Craft Council Juried Exhibition (two venues),
Gallery 1C03, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Wasagaming Community Arts, Wasagaming, Manitoba
2011 Make.Stop.Repeat. Manitoba Craft Council Juried Exhibition (two venues),
Tiger Hills Arts Association, Holland, Manitoba
Mennonite Heritage Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
2010 Fibre Works Biennial, curators: Catherine Heard and David H. Kaye,
Cambridge Galleries, Ontario
Lebel Gallery, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario
Awards
2014 Creative Works Grant, University of Manitoba
School of Art Curriculum Development and Innovation grant
Judith Ryan Memorial Award, Manitoba Craft Council
Leave Research Grant, University of Manitoba
2013 Curriculum Development and Innovation Fund, University of Manitoba
Creative Works Grant, University of Manitoba
Faculty Development Initiatives Fund
2012 Professional Development Grant, Winnipeg Arts Council
2011 Creative Works Grant, University of Manitoba
2009 Public Art Recognition Award, City of North Vancouver.
Collections
Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, New York, USA
Canada Council Art Bank. Ottawa, Ontario
City of North Vancouver, BC
City of Richmond, BC
City of Surrey, BC
City of Vancouver, BC
Claridge Collection. Montreal, Quebec
Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum. Michigan, USA
Detroit Institute of Art. Detroit, Michigan, USA
Mint Museum, Museum of Art. Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Richmond, Virginia, USA
Public Art Commissions
LAUNCH, 2006-2007 (commission: $60,000, client: Pinnacle, North Vancouver, BC)
On the former Versatile Shipyards adjacent to the Lonsdale Quay and the downtown business district of North Vancouver, Launch is comprised of three vertical elements: a container or vessel form (or entrance way), construction scaffolding and a nestled hull, made from anodized welded aluminum. The artwork is read from bottom to top as a narrative of shipyard construction and thematic of the site history.
MOTHER TONGUE, 2004-2005 (commission: $12,000, client: RCMP, City of Surrey, BC)
RCMP: new Guildford detachment. Words, selected from the RCMP vision statement (i.e., integrity, respect, empowerment, etc.), make the forms that are laser cut metal, based on mother tongue languages. The artwork champions the identities and individualities of diversity; linked together and reinforced through the RCMP’s tradition of bridging community strengths.
TIMEKEEPERS, 1999-2001 (commission: $30,000, client: North Vancouver, BC)
City of North Vancouver first major public art commission. The project accompanies the rehabilitation of a significant downtown park thoroughfare, a key pass-through between the downtown core and an existing waterfront development, Lonsdale Quay. Fabricated from laser cut stainless steel, the installation consists of six life-sized figurative silhouettes positioned at specifically chosen points on a grand staircase. The work describes personal histories and relationships to place through images and text, composed and layered on the surface of each sculptural form.
SPAN, 1999-2000 (commission: $238,600, client: City of Richmond, BC)
The signature public artwork accompanying the new architectural design for its City Hall. Fabricated from laser cut stainless steel and corten steel, the work consists of five free-standing sculptural elements prominently placed on the exterior public plaza.
CONVERGING LINES, 1997-1998 (commission: $15,000, client: City of Vancouver)
Utility poles and cables were chosen so as to blend with the existing environment. Laser cut stainless steel elements hung on wire cables between the poles describe a vernacular of people, houses and domesticity.
WOODLAND CIRCLES, 1996-1997 (commission: $3,000, client: City of Vancouver)
Eight copper and cement in-ground artworks mark the trees which had grown in the forest, similar in dimension and shape.
Public Artworks Illustrated
• City of Nanaimo, BC. "Community Plan for Public Art, " 2010. p.34 illus. Launch
• The City of Hamilton, 2003. "Red Hill Valley project Landscape Management Plan,"
Appendix A, Design Precedents, (p.A-9) illus. Woodland Circles, Converging Lines.
Filmography
2000 Art in the Streets, Ann Muir. 28 minutes.
Publications
URL's http://www.manitobacraft.ca/gallery
http://www.artsoffice.ca/public_art/collection/main12/public_art
http://www.surrey.ca/files/PubArtInsert-Series23.pdf
http://www.richmondartgallery.org/archive_2001/public-art.php
http://www.plepuc.org/en/oeuvres/createurs
http://www.diversemagazine.ca/Heritage-Surrey20Art 201.htm
2012 CONTEXTILE: Trienal De Arte Textil Contemporanea, Guimaraes, Portugal, 2012,
ISBN 978-989-96552-1-8, pg. 54-55.
2011 Margaret Dragu, July 2011.
http://www.socialpracticesartnetwork.org/vancouver
MAWA Newsletter Spring, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
2009 Public Art in Vancouver: Angels Among Lions,
Steel, John and Aileen Stalker, Touchwood Editions, 2009, pp. 69, 165.
1999 Panorama, City of Vancouver Public Art Newsletter, Spring.
1987 Claridge Collection, Montreal, Quebec.
Conferences and Symposia
2017 Canadian Craft Biennial Symposium, Burlington,Toronto, Ontario
2014 Textilsetur Islands, Blonduos, Iceland, felting workshop
Manitoba Association for Art Education, SAGE conference workshop
2013 Manitoba Association for Art Education, SAGE conference workshop
2012 Contextile 2012, “Contemporary Textile Art: What Prospects:” Vila Flor Cultural
Center, Guimaraes, Portugal. “Indeterminant Craft”, presenter and panelist.
2011 Sculptural Vocabularies, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada. January. “Balancing Act:
Public and Private Practices” presenter. “From the Studio to the Street: Public Art
and Private Practice”, panelist
Artist Talks
2017 Canadian Craft Biennial Symposium, Burlington, Ontario
2016 Art Now, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba
2015 Craft Micro Talks::Backspace Forward, Winnipeg, Manitoba
2014 Textilsetur Islands, Blonduos, Iceland
Handarbejdets Fremme College, Copenhagen, Denmark
2012 Contextile 2012 “Indeterminate Craft”
2011 Balancing Act: Public and Private Practices, Sculptural Vocabularies, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba