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Art NOW - Holly Ward
12 pm, March 30, 2016
University Recital Hall
Free Admission, Everyone Welcome

Holly Ward is an interdisciplinary artist working with sculpture, multi-media installation, architecture, video, printmaking and drawing as a means to examine the role of aesthetics in the formation of new social realities.

Recent projects include Cosmic Chandelier, a commission for a permanent public artwork at SFU Burnaby, and The House of Light and Entropy (2015), a solo exhibition of interdisciplinary works stemming from her long-term project The Pavilion. Originally commenced in 2009 during a yearlong stint as Langara College’s Artist-in-Residence, Ward constructed a 22’ diameter geodesic dome to act as catalyst and venue for a series of interdisciplinary contributions and collaborations, such as exhibitions, workshops and public performances. In 2011, The Pavilion was moved to a remote property in Heffley-Creek, BC, where it is currently being developed in collaboration with artist Kevin Schmidt. Here, The Pavilion will serve as rural studio and as a locus for a variety of artistic activities, such as free-school seminars, residencies and curated open-air video screenings.

Ward has exhibited nationally in such public galleries as Blackwoods Gallery, The Mendel Art Gallery, YYZ, Contemporary Art Gallery Vancouver, Vancouver Art Gallery, and the Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery at UBC. She has exhibited internationally in Volta 6 Basel, Switzerland, Insa Art Space, Seoul, South Korea, and Sonntags, Berlin. She has received numerous grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, and the British Columbia Arts Council. Her work can be found in public collections such as the Vancouver Art Gallery and Fogo Island Arts.

She is represented by Republic Gallery, Vancouver.

Image: Eye of the Beholder, Holly Ward and Kevin Schmidt, 2015