Irene F. Whittome, is a multimedia artist.

Life

Whittome was born in

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on March 4, 1942. She attended the Vancouver School of Art, and then spent five years studying printmaking at Stanley William Hayter's ''Atelier 17''. From 1968 to 2007, Whittome taught visual art in the Faculty of Fine Arts at

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. She lives and works in Montreal and Ogden in Estrie.

Work

Whittome has had over 35 solo exhibitions, including a major

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of her work at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec in 2000. Between 1995 and 2000 she had four solo exhibitions in institutional venues: at the CIAC – Center international d'art contemporain de Montréal (1995), at the

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(1997), at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (1998) and at the National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec (2000). In 2001, she began working in the Stanstead area of Quebec for the production of ''Conversation Adru'' exhibited at the Art Gallery of Bishop's University (now Foreman Art Gallery) (2004). In 2003, she bought a disused granite quarry in Ogden and built her studio to work there in 2004. In 2023, the Joliette Museum organized an exhibition of her recent work titled ''Sublimation''.

Awards

In 2004, she was made an Officer of the

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. In 1997, she was awarded the Prix du Québec's Prix Paul-Émile-Borduas. She was also awarded the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award in 1989, an award for excellence in the arts from the Gershon Iskowitz Foundation in 1992, and the

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's Visual and Media Arts Award in 2002. She is a member of the

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References

External links

Women Artists in Canada profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Whittome, Irene 1942 births Living people Artists from Vancouver Officers of the Order of Canada Canadian multimedia artists Members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts 20th-century Canadian women artists Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts winners Academic staff of Concordia University Atelier 17 alumni Canadian collage artists Canadian women collage artists