Irene Whittome

Irene F. Whittome, CM RCA is a Canadian multi-media artist.

Irene F. Whittome
Born (1942-03-04) March 4, 1942
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
NationalityCanadian
EducationVancouver School of Art
Known forMixed Media
AwardsOrder of Canada
Prix Paul-Émile-Borduas

Life

Whittome was born in Vancouver, British Columbia on March 4, 1942.[1][2][3] She attended the Vancouver School of Art, and then spent five years studying printmaking at Stanley William Hayter's Atelier 17.[4]

From 1968 to 2007, Whittome taught visual art in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University.[5]

Work

Whittome has had over 35 solo exhibitions,[6] including a major retrospective of her work at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec in 2000.[7]

Awards

In 2004, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.[8] In 1997, she was awarded the Prix du Québec's Prix Paul-Émile-Borduas.[2] She was also awarded the Victor-Martyn-Staunton Prize in 1991,[9] and an award for excellence in the arts from the Gershon Iskowitz Foundation in 1992[1][10] and the Governor General of Canada's Visual and Media Arts Award in 2002.[11][12] She is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.[13] In 1993 Whittome participated as a juror in selecting Beth Alber's design for "The Women's Monument: the Marker of Change," in Vancouver's Thornton Park..

References
  1. "Irene F. Whittome". Centre international d'art contemporain de Montréal. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
  2. "Lauréates et lauréats: Whittome, Irene F." Priz du Québec. Gouvernement du Québec. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
  3. Joan Murray (1999). Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century. Dundurn. pp. 165–166. ISBN 978-1-55002-332-9.
  4. "Irene F. Whittome". Women Artists in Canada. Government of Canada. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
  5. "Irene F. Whittome : un évènement". Occurrence. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
  6. "Awards 2002 - Biographies". Canada Council for the Arts. Archived from the original on 17 March 2016. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
  7. Donald Preziosi; Johanne Lamoureux (2 October 2012). In the Aftermath of Art: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics. Routledge. pp. 1–. ISBN 978-1-134-23187-4.
  8. "Order of Canada". Governor General of Canada. Government of Canada. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
  9. "Irene F. Whittome Conversations Adru". Art Gallery of Bishop's University. Bishop's University. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
  10. "The Gershon Iskowitz Prize at the AGO". Art Gallery of Ontario. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
  11. "Artist-Teacher Irene Whittome has Followed her own Muse". Centre for Teaching and Research. Concordia University. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
  12. "Awards 2002 - Laureates". Canada Council for the Arts. Archived from the original on 17 March 2016. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
  13. "Members since 1880". Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Archived from the original on 26 May 2011. Retrieved 11 September 2013.
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