Laura Millard

Last updated

Laura Millard
Born1961 (1961)
Calgary, Alberta
Education Alberta College of Art, Calgary (1979-1981); Bachelor of Fine Arts, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (1981-1983); Master of Fine Arts, Concordia University, Montreal (1989-1992)
Known formultimedia artist, educator
Websitelauramillard.com

Laura Millard RCA (born 1961) is a Canadian contemporary artist. She uses for her installations drawings and videos records of the marks left on the earth obtained from drones, such as traces of the tracks of skates and snowmobiles on ice in northern Canada in a long-term investigation of ways to reinvent the landscape tradition of Canada. [1] [2] She also is an educator with over many years of experience working at OCAD University (she began teaching there in 1995) and a writer; she lives and works in Toronto.

Contents

Career

Millard was born in Calgary and attended the Alberta College of Art, Calgary (1970–1981). She received a BFA degree from NSCAD University in 1983 and an MFA degree from Concordia University, Montreal in 1992. She is an Associate Professor in the Graduate program at OCAD University where she has worked since 1995. [3] She also has lectured and taught at art galleries and universities across Canada. In 1998, she was the author of Algonquin Memories: Tom Thomson in Algonquin Park [4] and she has written other books and articles. [3]

Work

Millard was initially a landscape painter. In 1999, in the Burlington Art Centre's Imagining An[other] Canada – Reconsidering images of Nationalism in the Canadian Landscape, curated by Carol Podedworny, Millard was said to be rethinking landscape. [5] Over time, she brought together in her art the contradictory ways in which landscape could be seen, altered and represented, varying her approach for different exhibitions to try and reinvent the genre. In 2004, she was said to have merged the arts of painting and photography to create a "highly evocative" body of work that concentrated on ice-frozen areas of the Bow River in Alberta. [6] In 2016, in a group exhibition at Toronto's InterAccess Gallery, titled Once Is Nothing: A Drone Art Exhibition, she let a quadcopter fly at ankle height to record the leaves in Scarborough's Rouge Park for a video, Passing. [7] In her solo exhibition trace at the McClure Gallery in Montreal in 2020, she used a drone to make drawings of the land below, marked them with different media, then printed selected images on fabric and used them in lightboxes which enveloped the viewer so that he or she could experience the place for themselves. [2]

Exhibitions

Millard began showing her work as an artist in group exhibitions in 1987 in Calgary. Since then, she has participated in many group exhibitions both nationally and internationally. [2] In 2017, her work was included in Every. Now. Then: reframing nationhood at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. [8] In 2020, her work was shown in The Uncanny Outdoors at the MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie. [9] She has had solo exhibitions at galleries across Canada and internationally including such exhibitions as Contrail, at the Where Where Exhibition Space, Beijing (2011); Crossing, at the Whyte Museum, Banff, AB (2019) [10] and in 2020, trace, at the McClure Visual Arts Center, Montreal, QC. [11]

Selected collections

Her work is in the public collections Alberta Foundation for the Arts; [12] the Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta; [13] the MacLaren Art Centre; [9] and Museum London in London, Ontario. [14]

Awards

She is the recipient of grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.[ citation needed ] Millard has done artists residencies in the Arctic Circle Residency in Svalbard and the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture in Dawson City, Yukon, [15] and in Canada at the Banff Centre and NSCAD University. In 2011, she was inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. [16]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Wanda Koop</span> Canadian artist

Wanda Koop is a Canadian interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Katie Ohe, is a Canadian sculptor living in Calgary, Alberta. Ohe is known as one of the first artists to make abstract sculpture in Alberta, and has been influential as a teacher at the Alberta College of Art and Design. She is best known for her abstract and kinetic sculptures.

Gerald Ferguson was a conceptual artist and painter who lived and taught in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Born in Cincinnati he was both a Canadian and US citizen. After receiving his MFA from Ohio University Ferguson taught at two institutions before coming to Canada in 1968, invited to teach at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) in Halifax. He continued to teach at NSCAD until his retirement in 2006.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tim Zuck</span> Canadian artist (1947–2022)

Timothy Melvin Zuck was a Canadian painter of representational images with an orientation towards abstraction and a tranquil atmosphere distilled from the world around him. He was also an educator.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Margaret Shelton (artist)</span>

Margaret Dorothy Shelton (1915–1984) was a Canadian artist who lived nearly all of her life in Alberta. She worked in a number of mediums but is best known for her block printing.

Shary Boyle D.F.A. is a contemporary Canadian visual artist working in the mediums of sculpture, drawing, painting and performance art. She lives and works in Toronto.

Rita McKeough is a Canadian interdisciplinary artist, musician and educator who frequently works in installation and performance.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Marion Nicoll</span> Canadian painter

Marion Florence Nicoll was a Canadian painter. She is known as one of the first abstract painters in Alberta. In 1933 she became the first woman instructor at the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art. In 1977 Nicoll became the first woman artist in the Prairies to become a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.

Arlene Stamp is a Canadian conceptual artist and educator who lives and works in Calgary, Alberta.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cheryl L'Hirondelle</span> Canadian artist

Cheryl L'Hirondelle is a Canadian multidisciplinary media artist, performer, and award-winning musician. She is of Métis/Cree (non-status/treaty), French, German, and Polish descent. Her work is tied to her cultural heritage. She explores a Cree worldview or nêhiyawin through body, mind, emotions, and spirit; examining what it means to live in contemporary space and time.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ed Pien</span> Canadian artist (born 1958)

Ed Pien is a Canadian contemporary artist, known for his drawings and large-scale drawing-based installations inspired by multiple sources and traditions, printmaking, paper cuts and video and photography.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Natalka Husar</span> American-born Canadian painter (born 1951)

Natalka Husar is an American-born Canadian painter. She is known for work that draws on aspects of Ukrainian culture and history, the émigré experience, and her feminist concerns.

Nancy Tousley is a senior art critic, journalist, art writer and independent curator whose practice has included writing for a major daily newspaper, art magazines, and exhibition catalogues.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mary E. Wrinch</span> Canadian painter (1877-1969)

Mary Evelyn Wrinch (1877–1969), was a Canadian artist who created miniature paintings, oil paintings, and block prints, sometimes inspired by the Northern Ontario landscape. She pioneered the 'Canadian style', painting landscapes with bold colours of the Algoma, Muskoka and Lake Superior regions, in situ. In her miniature paintings on ivory, she depicted her sitters with freshness and vitality. Her colour block prints are virtuoso examples of the medium.

Zainub Verjee DFA LL. D. DFA DFA is a Kenya-born Canadian video artist, curator, writer, arts administrator and public intellectual. She began her career in the Vancouver arts community of the 1970s, which was steeped in interdisciplinary, intermedia, and intercultural practices. Having made her mark as an emerging artist, she shifted the emphasis of her work to curatorial, administrative and policy arenas. Applying the insight, creativity and criticality of an artist, she has brought “institutional critique” into the workings of the institution itself. Deeply engaged with the UK’s British Black Arts, Tactical Video Movement, Third Cinema and the post-Bandung Conference decolonization, Verjee has been embedded in the history of women’s labour in British Columbia. In February 2020 she was awarded the 2020 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts for “outstanding contribution to the arts”. In 2021 she was conferred an honorary doctorate by the OCAD University recognizing her outstanding contribution to arts, racial and gender equity She was elected as a Senior Fellow of the Massey College at University of Toronto in the fall of 2021. Earlier she was appointed as McLaughlin College Fellow at the York University. In 2022 she was conferred Doctor of Fine Arts, honoris causa, by Nova Scotia College of Art and Design NSCAD University, Halifax She was the recipient of the honorary degree of Doctor of Fine Arts given by Simon Fraser University, Burnaby in the Spring Convocation of 2023.Her contribution to the pioneering prison theatre program in Canada and for integral role in the formation of the British Columbia Arts Council was recognized by University of Victoria by conferring her with an honorary degree of Doctor of Fine Arts in Spring Convocation in 2023.

Carole Condé D.F.A. is a Canadian artist whose practice responds to critical contemporary cultural, social, and political issues through the use of collaboration and dialogue. Condé and long-time collaborator and partner Karl Beveridge challenge concepts of ideology, power, and control. In their career, which spans over thirty years, Condé and Beveridge have had over fifty solo exhibitions at major museums and art spaces across four continents, including: the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, UK; Museum Folkswang in Germany; the George Meany Centre in Washington; Dazibao Gallery in Montréal; Centro Cultural Recoleta in Buenos Aires; the Art Gallery of Alberta; and the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney.

Linda Craddock is a Canadian visual artist living in Calgary, Alberta. Her work has been featured in exhibitions since 1973.

Kim Dorland is a contemporary Canadian painter based in Toronto. He is best known for his thickly-painted, fluorescent-imbued landscapes and super-thick portraiture and his use of multiple painting mediums per canvas.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Janet Mitchell (artist)</span> Canadian painter (1912-1998)

Janet Mitchell LL.D was a Canadian modernist painter from Alberta, known for her fantasies of Calgary in watercolours and oils.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alexandra Haeseker</span> Canadian painter, printmaker and installation artist (born 1945)

Alexandra Haeseker is a Canadian painter, print maker, and installation artist, based in Calgary, Alberta. She is a professor emerita at Alberta University of the Arts. Her works can be found in public collections in Canada and internationally.

References

  1. ↑ "Laura Millard in Power Play: Hockey in Contemporary Art". www.youtube.com. Peel Art Gallery and Museum, 2022. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 "trace". www.visualartscentre.ca. McClure Visual Arts Centre, Montreal. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
  3. 1 2 "Staff directory". www2.ocadu.ca. OCAD. 15 February 2017. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
  4. ↑ Millard, Laura. "Algonquin Memories: Tom Thomson in Algonquin Park". library.gallery.ca. National Gallery of Canada. Retrieved 24 September 2022.
  5. ↑ "Imagining An[other] Canada – Reconsidering images of nationalism in the Canadian landscape". www.msvuart.ca. MSUV ART. Retrieved 28 September 2022.
  6. ↑ The Bow: living with a river. Key Porter Books, 2005, p. 25. 2004. ISBN   9781552636343 . Retrieved 24 September 2022.
  7. ↑ Collins, Leah. "This drone footage will blow your mind, but not for the reasons you think". www.cbc.ca. CBC. Retrieved 23 September 2022.
  8. ↑ "Every. Now. Then: reframing nationhood". www.torontopubliclibrary.ca. TPL. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
  9. 1 2 "The Uncanny Outdoors". maclarenart.com. MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
  10. ↑ "Laura Millard: Crossing". canadianart.ca. canadianart, 2019. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
  11. ↑ "Laura Millard ◆ Visite commentée virtuelle Virtual Artist Talk". www.youtube.com. Galerie McClure, 2020. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
  12. ↑ "Collection". alberta.emuseum.com. Alberta Foundation for the Arts. Retrieved 24 September 2022.
  13. ↑ "Collection". ww2.glenbow.org. Glenbow Museum, Calgary. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
  14. ↑ "Collection". collection.museumlondon.ca. Museum London, Ontario. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
  15. ↑ "Artists in Residence". kiac.ca. The Klondike Institute of Art and Culture. Retrieved 22 September 2022.
  16. ↑ "Members since 1880". Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Archived from the original on 26 May 2011. Retrieved 21 September 2022.

Bibliography

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.