David Blatherwick (born 1960) is a Canadian artist and educator.

Education

He received a

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in design from

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in 1984, a

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from

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in 1989, and attended the

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture is an artists residency located in Madison, Maine, just outside of Skowhegan. Every year, the program accepts online applications from emerging artists from November through January, and selects 65 ...

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in 1990. He is currently teaches at the University of Waterloo

Career

In 1986 he was part of the Hybrid Cultures exhibit at Oboro gallery that showed the affinities between the art movements of

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and

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. His first solo exhibition was in Montréal in 1988, and he has since been included in numerous museum exhibitions, including solo at the

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Robert McLaughlin Gallery The Robert McLaughlin Gallery is a public art gallery in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. It is the largest public art gallery in the Regional Municipality of Durham, of which Oshawa is a part. The gallery houses a significant collection of Canadian conte ...

Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (), abbreviated as MNBAQ, is an art museum in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The museum is located in National Battlefields Park and is a complex of four buildings. Three of them were purpose-built for ...

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, and the

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, and as part of group exhibitions at galleries including Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes Metamorphose et Clônage,

Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal The Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (, MACM) is a contemporary art museum in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located on the Place des festivals in the Quartier des spectacles and is part of the Place des Arts complex. Founded in 1964, it ...

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, and the Musée du Québec. His paintings and video installations brought him national attention in the late 1990s, and in 2002 his work was included in the Biennale de Montreal. In 2002 he became a member of Arte y Desarrollo, a group of development and experimental artists whose activities are centralized in rural

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. Blatherwick has been the subject of numerous reviews and publications. He has been guest speaker at

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, Musée national du beaux-arts du Québec, and

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. His work, through private sales or charity auctions, is held in numerous public and private collections, including Art Bank of Canada, Banque Nationale du Canada,

, and the

. He has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including from the

, the

Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec The Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (, CALQ) is a public agency founded in 1994 by the government of Quebec The Government of Quebec (, ) is the body responsible for the administration of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Ca ...

, the

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, the

Pollock-Krasner Foundation The Pollock-Krasner Foundation was established in 1985 for the purpose of providing funding to visual artists internationally to further their artistic practices. It was established at the bequest of Lee Krasner, who was an American abstract expr ...

, and the

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, and has published and contributed to several critical essays, and publications.

Work

His solo exhibition ''Cheese, Worms and the Holes in Everything'', was presented at the

in 2007, Art Mûr gallery, in Montreal, and the

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in 2008. Its production was also included in many exhibitions and was immortalized in a catalog of the same name. Initially interested in the potential for interconnectivity suggested by new media and the internet, Blatherwick evoked the immense complexity of these center-less networks in his paintings. Later in his career, his interest shifted to the more perilous biological activity found in our own bodies. "Fusing the technological and the biological in a single frame of reference, David Blatherwick has evolved his painting language while offering ample high-tech and organic eye candy to the viewer's hungry eye" Consistent throughout his entire oeuvre is a fascination with all forms of seething, rampant life, with organic shapes that bring to mind intestines, stomachs, molecules and viruses.

References

External links

Official website
* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20080924001429/http://www.artmur.com/english/artists/artistes/David_Blatherwick1.htm David Blatherwick at Galerie Art Mûr

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