Diane Whitehouse

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Diane Whitehouse (born in Birmingham, England) is a Canadian painter, professor and art activist.

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Education

In 1962, Whitehouse earned her NDD at the Birmingham College of Art, and in the 1980s did post-graduate work at Bergen Kunsthåndverkskole, Norway. [1] She became a Canadian citizen in 1972.

Paintings

“Diane Whitehouse creates strong, vibrant, rish and evocative canvasses that emanate from the prairie landscape, its distances, light, space, colour and horizons.” [2]

Whitehouse's paintings have been described as meditative, and referencing landscape. [1] [3]

Whitehouse began exhibiting her work in 1962 , including at the Canada House in London, UK, University of Alberta, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, The Banff Centre, and The University of Manitoba. [4]

In 1982, she had a solo exhibition in the Manitoba Studio Series at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, entitled The Passing of an Emperor.

In 1984, her Rooms Journeys solo show was at Plug In Gallery in Winnipeg.

In 1986, her solo exhibition Rooms and Other Walled Spaces was held at the University of Manitoba’s Gallery 1.1.1. https://digitalcollections.lib.umanitoba.ca/islandora/object/uofm%3A2646016/datastream/OBJ/view

In 1990, her solo show entitled Diane Whitehouse: Paintings was hosted by the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, in Brandon. [2]

In 1999, Whitehouse’s work was in a major solo retrospective at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. [5] In that catalogue, Cliff Eyland wrote “A Diane Whitehouse work can be imagined as a record of a silent private performance, of stopping and starting, of looking and adjusting.” Shirley Madill, Senior Curator at the Art Gallery of Hamilton wrote of that work, “A visit to the studio of Diane Whitehouse is an experience of sheer exhilaration.” [ibid]

Group shows include The Painters’ Newfoundland at the Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador (1998), BOUNCE> Rotterdam organised by the St. Norbert Arts and Cultural Centre (1996), Off The Beaten Track, shown at Collective Gallery, Edinburgh as well as Sea Gate Gallery in Dundee (1989), in the Contemporary Art in Manitoba show at the Winnipeg Art Gallery (1987) and many others.

Her large paintings are in many international collections including in England and Norway, and in Canada: the Canada Council Art Bank, [6] the Manitoba Arts Council Art Bank, [7] Alberta Government House and Winnipeg Art Gallery. [8] [9]

Career

She has based her career in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, since relocating in 1977 from Edmonton, Alberta, to teach fine art at the University of Manitoba School of Art rising to Professorial rank. [10] Before that, Whitehouse taught painting in the Fine Arts Department of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta. She has also taught at the Banff Centre and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax.

From 1975-1977, she served on the Alberta Art Foundation Advisory Committee in Edmonton.

In 1983, Whitehouse created a committee of professors and students to establish Mentoring Artists For Women's Art. [11] In 2004, Whitehouse was featured in MAWA: Culture of Community, a book celebrating the 30th anniversary of the group she founded. [3]

In 1984-1988, she was appointed to the Canada Council Advisory Committee. Whitehouse served as Chair of the Board of Winnipeg’s founding artist-run centre Plug In Gallery twice.

Whitehouse was featured in the April 1991 issue of Border Crossings magazine. [6]

In 1995 and 2005, she co-founded <Site> Gallery, a commercially-oriented artist-run centre in Winnipeg’s National Historic Site, The Exchange District. [12]

Between 2004 and 2019, Whitehouse established an independent annual artists’ retreat in Riding Mountain National Park. [13] In those years, she also taught at the annual Arts West residency there. [14]

Awards

In 2011, for her extensive fostering of the Canadian art scene, Whitehouse received the Making A Difference Award at the Winnipeg Arts Council’s annual Mayor's Luncheon for the Arts. [15] [16]

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References

  1. 1 2 Butler, Sheila (1986). Rooms and Other Walled Places. Winnipeg: Kromar.
  2. 1 2 Patricia Bovey, Diane Whitehouse: Points of Departure, Winnipeg Art Gallery. 1991
  3. 1 2 CHIN. "Poetics - Canada". www.virtualmuseum.ca. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  4. ↑ Eyland, Cliff (1996). Unravelling. Winnipeg: Mentoring Artists For Women's Art.
  5. ↑ Dahle, Sigrid (1999). Points of Departure. Winnipeg: Winnipeg Art Gallery. ISBN   0-88915-191-1.
  6. 1 2 "Home". Home. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
  7. ↑ "Facilities | Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba". agsm.ca. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
  8. ↑ Lizard, Visual. "Canadian Art | Winnipeg Art Gallery". wag.ca. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  9. ↑ Baker, Suzanne, Devonshire (1980). Artists of Alberta. Edmonton: University of Alberta. pp.  17. ISBN   0-88864-067-6.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  10. ↑ "CCCA Artist Profile for Diane Whitehouse". ccca.concordia.ca. Archived from the original on 2017-01-23. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  11. ↑ "The New Gallery : Database". collective.thenewgallery.org. Archived from the original on 2016-03-08. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  12. ↑ "About The Exchange". The Exchange District BIZ. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
  13. ↑ "Arts West - Retreat". www.artswestcouncil.ca. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
  14. ↑ "Arts West - Retreat". www.artswestcouncil.ca. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
  15. ↑ "'Fireworks' for arts notables". www.winnipegfreepress.com. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  16. ↑ "Mayor's Luncheon for the Arts". winnipegarts.ca. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
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