| Lynda Kirby |
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| BIOGRAPHY |
Lynda Kirby was born in southern British Columbia’s Fraser Valley and traveled throughout the province’s interior as a child. The raw and unpredictable character of BC’s wilderness and its strong-spirited communities that have taken root filled Kirby’s young imagination with awe and excitement which most often found expression in painting.
She left the small town environment to study Fine Arts at Vancouver City College in 1972 and worked intermittently in commercial art while sharing in the upbringing of two daughters. When time afforded, she returned to her studies in Visual Arts and Liberal Studies which produced a degree from Vancouver Island University (formally Malaspina University College).
Kirby’s paintings are a charged combination of landscape and human elements using an abstract visual language. What is contained in these paintings is the belief that all forms are subject to change and all elements, natural and human, are active agents in an ever-changing world. This sentiment is emphasized in her use of layered colour and shifting forms that appear to be natural but are not.
It is an exciting time and place to work as an artist and for this, Lynda Kirby is grateful.
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Selected Exhibitions
2009 Re-Gifted, Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver, B.C
2009 Arcadia Revisited, Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
2008 Gifted, Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
2008 Visions and Vistas, Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
2008 Works exhibited at the Nanaimo Convention Centre
2007 Works exhibited at the Ian Tan Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
2007 Works exhibited at the Intersection Art Gallery, Nanaimo, B.C.
2006 Artist of the Month (Oct.) - Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo, B.C.
2006 Joint Show Momentum - Contemporary Works by Chinese and Canadian Women
Artists, Campus Gallery, Nanaimo, B.C.
2005 Solo Show Colosseum Series - 2nd Floor Artists Space, 29 Commercial St.
Nanaimo, B.C.
2004 Joint Show China - Canada, Women’s Declaration, Shanghai Duolun Modern Art
Museum, Shanghai, China
2003 Works exhibited at Gallery 223, Nanaimo, B.C.
2002 Drawings, Port Theatre, Nanaimo, B.C.
2001 Joint show Oceanside Arts Council Gallery, Parksville, B.C.
2001 Joint show Crystal Blue Boutique, Maple Ridge, B.C.
2000 Joint show Campus Gallery, B.C., Nanaimo
Previous to 1997
1980 Joint show Xchanges Gallery, Victoria, B.C.
1984 Joint show Nanaimo Art Gallery
1992 One Person Show Strange Fire Gallery, Ladysmith
Juried Shows:
2001 Viking Union Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, U.S.A.
Previous to 1998
1997 District 69 Arts Council Juried Show, Qualicum, B.C., “We Are Assembled”
1996 District 69 Junk Art Show, Parksville B.C.
Education
1999-2006 Malaspina University College Fine Arts Program, Liberal Studies Program ( B.A.)
Nanaimo, B.C.
Media
2007 Interview with Cady Williams (Director of Sales and Rentals) Nanaimo Daily
Newspaper
2007 Interview in collaboration with Byron Chief-Moon (Artwork used for dance
(Production) To be aired in Fall 2007 on Bravo Television Network and APTN
2005 Interview (The Star Newspaper, Nanaimo, B.C.)
2001 Go! TV, Television interview
Awards
2000 ARCS Award Malaspina University College
2001 Nanaimo Art Forum Award, Malaspina University College
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