Artspeak

• Roy Arden

  Roy Arden (b. 1957 in Vancouver) lives in Vancouver; the primary subject of his photographs. Arden graduated from Emily Carr College of Art and Design with a bachelor in Photography and Interdisciplinary Studies in 1982. He has been exhibiting since the late 1970s and in the past 5 years has produced digital video works. Recent solo exhibitions include Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England and Galerie Tanit, Munich, with forthcoming ones at the Charles H. Scott Gallery and the Vancouver Art Gallery. His work has been included in significant groups exhibitions such as the Busan Biennale 2004, Kunstmuseum Basel, 2004, Intertidal: Vancouver Art and Artists, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerpen, 2006 and the major photography exhibition organized in conjunction with the 2005 reopening of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

• Peter Culley

  Peter Culley was born in Sudbury, Ontario in 1958.

• Jeff Derksen

  Jeff Derksen, (b. 1958), is a cultural critic and a poet who works at Simon Fraser University. Derksen graduated with distinction from the David Thompson University Center in 1984 with a bachelor in Arts and Science. His writing on art and culture has appeared in Springerin, Hunch, C magazine, Open Letter, Poetics Journal, XCP, amongst others. He has two books of critical essays forthcoming: After Euphoria: art / space / neoliberalism (EC Press/JPR Ringier), and Annihilated Time: Poetry and Other Politics (Talonbooks). Derksen was a research fellow at the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics (CUNY Graduate Center) and is a founding member of the Kootenay School of Writing. Under the name Urban Subjects, he collaborates with Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber on curatorial projects and visual research.

• Stan Douglas

  Stan Douglas is a visual artist who lives and works in Vancouver. His media works have been exhibited nationally and internationally in venues such as Documenta IX.

• Deanna Ferguson

  Deanna Ferguson was born in December 12, 1962. Ferguson attended David Thompson University Center in Nelson BC from 1981-83, and the Kootenay School of Writing in Vancouver BC in 1986.

• Donna Leisen

  Donna Leisen studied at Emily Carr College of Art and Design and Vancouver Community College, graduating in Photography, Printmaking and Jewellery Art and Design.

  Her work consists of 19th Century photographic printing techniques, the Van Dyke and Cyanotype, hand bookbinding, photo-etching, as well as works in metal, primarily silver, gold and niobium, with a special interest in ancient Greek and Roman metal working techniques.

• Sara Leydon

  Sara Leydon was born in 1959 in Saskatchewan, Canada. Leydon obtained a bachelor in Fine Arts from the Program University of Regina, and a diploma in Interdisciplinary/History of Media from Emily Carr College of Art and Design.

• Kathryn Macleod

  Kathryn MacLeod graduated with distinction from the University of Victoria in 1983 obtaining a bachelor in Creative Writing English. MacLeod was one of the founders and editors of Motel.

• Doug Munday

  Doug Munday graduated from Emily Carr College of Art and Design in 1986 obtaining a bachelor in Interdisciplinary Studies.

• Miriam Nichols

• Cate Rimmer

  Cate Rimmer, 1961, is a curator from Calgary, Alberta. She was the founding Director/Curator of Artspeak Gallery, Director of Truck Gallery and was a Curator in Residence at the Saidye Bronfman Centre in Montreal. Rimmer has published reviews, articles and catalogue texts. She received a diploma in Curatorial Studies from Emily Carr and graduated with a MLitt (with distinction) in Museum and Gallery Studies from the University of St Andrews, Scotland.

• Scott Watson

  Dr. Scott Watson is Head and Professor at the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory and Director/Curator of the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia. He is Director and Graduate Advisor for the Critical Curatorial Studies program, which he helped initiate in September 2002. Watson has published extensively in the areas of contemporary Canadian and international art and who’s research focus is contemporary art and issues, art theory and criticism.

• Calvin Wharton

• Monika Kin Gagnon