Elspeth Pratt

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Elspeth Pratt
Born1953
NationalityCanadian
Known forSculptor

Elspeth Pratt (born 1953) [1] is a Canadian contemporary artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Pratt is best known for her colorful sculptures using "poor" materials such as cardboard, polystyrene, balsa wood and vinyl, and for her interest in leisure and consumerism in domestic and public spaces. [2] [3] [4] Her use of humble, crude, unusual materials has sometimes been compared to the Arte Povera movement. [5] [6]

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Early life and education

Pratt earned her BFA from the University of Manitoba in 1981 and her MFA from the University of British Columbia in 1974. [7] She is currently an Associate Professor and Director of the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University. [8]

Awards

In 2014 Pratt was the recipient of a Vancouver Mayor's Arts Award for Visual Arts. [9] In 1993 she was the recipient of a VIVA Award from the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation. [10]

Collections

Pratt's work is in the collections of the City of Richmond's collection of public art, [11] the Glenbow Museum, [12] the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, and the Vancouver Art Gallery. [13]

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Publications

In 2011, the Charles H. Scott Gallery and Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery co-published a monograph on Pratt's work, with essays by Lorna Brown, Lisa Robertson, Matthew Stadler, Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber, Oliver Neumann, and Stephanie Snyder. [28]

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References

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  9. ↑ Vancouver, City of (2017-10-02). "Mayor's Arts Award for Visual Arts". vancouver.ca. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
  10. ↑ "VIVA Award Recipients 1988-2017". The Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
  11. ↑ "City of Richmond BC - Elspeth Pratt". www.richmond.ca. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
  12. ↑ "The Glenbow Museum > Collections Search Results". ww2.glenbow.org. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
  13. ↑ Government of Canada, Department of Canadian Heritage. "Artefacts Canada". app.pch.gc.ca. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
  14. ↑ "3 Sculptors".
  15. ↑ "Vancouver Art Gallery". www.vanartgallery.bc.ca. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
  16. ↑ "Cooley Art Gallery Exhibition Archives".
  17. ↑ "Vancouver Art Gallery". www.vanartgallery.bc.ca. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
  18. ↑ "Silent as Glue". Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
  19. ↑ "SAAG - Southern Alberta Art Gallery". www.saag.ca. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
  20. ↑ Projects, UNIT/PITT (16 July 2010). "Tegan Moore and Elspeth Pratt: Haptic" . Retrieved 2019-03-11.
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  25. ↑ "Elspeth Pratt builds outside the rules". Georgia Straight Vancouver's News & Entertainment Weekly. 27 February 2008.
  26. ↑ "Elspeth Pratt | Bluff". Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
  27. ↑ "Elspeth Pratt | Artspeak" . Retrieved 2019-03-11.
  28. ↑ Pratt, Elspeth; Slade, Kathy; Charles H. Scott Gallery; Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, eds. (2011). Elspeth Pratt. Vancouver: Emily Carr University Press. ISBN   9780921356370.
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