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David Spriggs

 

 

 

 
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Artist Statement

David Spriggs was born in Manchester, England in 1978, and moved to Canada in 1992. He studied painting and sculpture at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver (1996-2000), and sculpture at Concordia University in Montreal, graduating with a Masters degree in Fine Art in 2007. He undertook student residencies at Central St. Martins College of Art in London, England (1999) and the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany (2006). Spriggs’ exhibitions in Canada include shows at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery and Rodman Hall Arts Centre, and his work is in the permanent collections of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the National Museum of Quebec. Spriggs was the recipient of the Calgary Immigrants of Distinction Arts Award in 1998. Since 2000, his practice, in his words, has been concerned with “concepts of space and relationships between the thresholds of the second and third dimensions, the immaterial form, perception, deconstruction, time, movement including speed and stasis, the body, the appropriation of symbols, and strategies of power.” He currently lives and works in Montreal, Quebec.

Official website: www.davidspriggs.com

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Education

Concordia University in Montreal. Master Fine Arts (M.F.A.) Sculpture 2004-2007
Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver. Bachelor of Visual Arts (B.F.A.) 1996-2000

Student Residencies

Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany. M.F.A. Public Art and New Artistic Strategies 2006
Central St. Martins College in London, England. Painting, Printmaking. 1999

Solo exhibitons

2009 Sharjah Biennial 9, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2008 The Threshold of Form, Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto
2008 Emergence of Perception, Art Mûr Gallery, Montreal
2006 Escalator, Université Concordia , Montréal
2005 The Aesthetics of Speed, Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto
2002 Lucid Forms, Third Avenue Gallery, Vancouver
1996 New Works by David M. Spriggs, Station Gallery, Okotoks

Group exhibitions

2008 Abracadabra, Art Mûr at Edward Day Gallery, Toronto
2007 Haptic: CAFKA, Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener & Area, Kitchener City Hall
2007 Portraits d'artistes, Le Conseil des arts de Montréal, The Arts Council of Montreal
2006 Mehrzweck Raum- Multipurpose Space, M.F.A. Bauhaus Public Art, Weimar, Germany
2006 Art fiction, Art Mûr, Montréal, octobre
2005 Untitled Exhibition, Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto
2005 Decalage, Parisian Laundry, MFA Concordia exhibit, Montreal
2003 The Bill Clinton Show, Locus Media Gallery, Broadway, New York, N.Y.

Awards and Achievements

Alberta Foundation for the Arts Grant for Visual Art. 2008 & 2005
B.C. Arts Council Award Grant for Visual Art. 2002 & 2003
Immigrants of Distinction Arts and Culture Award. Calgary Immigrant Aid Society. 1998

 

 

 


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