Showing posts with label London. Show all posts
Showing posts with label London. Show all posts

Monday, 12 December 2011

Jack Chambers

Was surprised to see the name Jack Chambers on Tycho’s blog.
I never knew the man, but I do know the Curnoe family well, and heard much about him from them and read much about the role that Jack Chambers played in the really vibrant art scene in London, Ontario in the 1960s.
He painted this scene of Victoria Hospital, where he would later die, from atop the Curnoes roof.

http://blog.iso50.com/26342/jack-chambers/

Monday, 3 October 2011

The Greg Curnoe Bicycle Project

The AGO’s current Artist-In-Residence Paul Butler worked with Mike Barry, owner of Mariposa Cycle in Toronto, and rebuilt Greg Curnoe’s favourite bicycle – Close the 49th Parallel ETC. Part of it was to ask the question “what makes the kind of artist who is an activist and is community-minded as opposed to an artist whose drive is fame and fortune?” The show runs from September 17th until November 13th.

It’s nice to see Greg still so highly regarded.

http://www.ago.net/paul-butler-the-greg-curnoe-bicycle-project