ARTIST STATEMENT

I have a strong feeling that just beyond our senses there is something magical about life, something very subtle yet powerful. My work has become a search for that mysterious part of myself and my world. I made the above statement a few years ago. It continues to express my underlying purpose for making art.

ARTIST BACKGROUND

Pat Gibson is an artist, art educator and currently Curator of Exhibitions at the Ingersoll Creative Arts Centre since 1982. She is co-founder/co-curator of Oxford County Art Project: Art in Public Spaces. As an Educator, she has taught many classes and workshops for adults and children in Woodstock, Ingersoll, London and Brantford and served as Education Officer for Woodstock Art Gallery. She taught for Thames Valley School Board and in cooperation with the Board and the Ontario Arts Council has completed many Creative Artists-in-Schools projects. Gibson has exhibited her mixed media work in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout Ontario. Her work is in public and private collections throughout Canada and the USA.

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PAT GIBSON

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012 Oxford County Art Project (invitational)

2007 Works on Mylar, Thielsen Gallery, London Ontario

2004 Layered Water Dance, Woodstock Art Gallery, Woodstock ON

2001 Silver Lake, Ingersoll Creative Arts Centre, Ingersoll ON

1999 Photo Grid, Royal Botanical Gardens, Hamilton ON

1997 Photo Grid, Station Arts Centre, Tillsonburg ON

1994 Red Screen Door, Woodstock Art Gallery, Woodstock ON

1993 Memories: drawing on photography, Woodstock Little Theatre

Red Screen Door, Carnegie Gallery, Dundas Ontaio

1990 Drawing on Photography, Auberge Due Petit Prince, London ON

Memories: Drawing on Photography,Ingersoll Creative Arts Centre

1988 Messages, Woodstock Art Gallery, Woodstock ON

1987 Paintings, Woodstock Little Theatre, Woodstock ON

1985 Changing Sounds, Resourse Art Centre, London ON

Drawing, Norman Galleries, Woodstock ON

1984 Looking for the Happy Garden, Ingersoll Creative Arts Centre

1981 Woodstock Art Gallery, Woodstock Ontario

1978 Ingersoll Creative Arts Centre, Ingersoll Ontario

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2017 Visual Elements 59: Annual Juried Exhibition

2016 Visual Elements 58: Annual Juried Exhibition

2015 Visual Elements 57: Annual Juried Exhibition

2014 Visual Elements 56: Annual Juried Exhibition

2013 Visual Elements 55: Annual Juried Exhibition

2011 BIRDSONG, Ingersoll Creative Arts Centre (2 artists)

Waterwall, STRAND Fine Art, London ON (2 artists)

2010 QUEST, Woodstock Art Gallery (3 artists)

2009 The Art of Collage, Ingersoll Creative Arts Centre (invitational)

Go Figure ,Gallery in the Grove, Brights Grove ON (2 artists)

Go Figure, The Art Exchange, London ON (2 artists)

2008 Aeolian Hall, London ON (invitational )

2007 Go Figure, Ingersoll Creative Arts Centre (2 artists)

2004 Sky over Silver Lake,Ingersoll Creative Arts Centre (2 artists)

2003 the WATER exhibition, Ingersoll Creative Arts Centre (invitational)

2000 Breaking the Mould, Woodstock Art Gallery (4 artists)

1999 Square Roots, Ingersoll Creative Arts Centre (2 artists)

Thielsen Galleries, London ON

1998 Thielsen Galleries, London ON

From Word to Image, Ingersoll Creative Arts Centre (invitational)

1997 Grid Work, Ingersoll Creative Arts Centre (invitational)

1996 Tread Works, Woodstock Art Gallery (invitational)

1994 Ingersoll Creative Arts Centre (2 artists)

1993 Annual Western Ontario Exhibition, London Regional Art Gallery

1991 ART AT THE GRASS ROOTS- Creative Artists in Schools

Exhibition Toronto Area Secondary Schools

1990 OTTAWA ART EXCHANGE- Canada Day Exhibition Heritage Building, Ottawa ON

Community Arts Network- Woodstock Art Gallery

1988 Oxford County Collects, Woodstock Art Gallery

1987 CREATIVE ARTISTS IN SCHOOLS EXHIBITION,

Erindale Campus Art Gallery, Toronto Ontario

!983 Woodstock Connection, Cambridge Art Centre, Cambridge ON (4 artists)

Annual Western Ontario Exhibition, London Regional Art Gallery

1982 Womanspirit Art Gallery, London ON (2 artists)

1981 St Thomas-Elgin Art Gallery (3 artists)

1976 Ingersoll Creative Arts Centre ( 2 artists)

AWARDS

The ART EXCHANGE Miniatures 2013 Jurors Choice

ARTFORMS `80, Jurors` Honorable Mention , Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery

ARTWORKS, Cambridge Art Centre 1981 PURCHASE AWARD

OXFORD COUNTY ANNUAL JURRIED EXHIBITION, Woodstock Art Gallery

JURORS` CHOICE 2008 HM, 2005, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1982, 1981, 1979

GALLERY LAMBTON, Sarnia ON- JURORS` HONORABLE MENTION 2005

NORFOLK ART CENTRE, Simcoe ON- JURORS CHOICE 2005

ONTARIO ARTS COUNCIL: CREATIVE ARTISTS IN SCHOOLS

Projects-1985, 1987, 1987, 1988, 1990

ONTARIO ARTS COUNCIL Exhibition Assistance (numerous)

NEWELL AWARD 2000 Outstanding contribution to Ingersoll Creative Arts Centre

COLLECTIONS

CAMBRIDGE ART CENTRE

CIL PAINTS

UPPER THAMES RIVER CONSERVATION INC.

WOODSTOCK POLICE STATION

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS in CANADA and USA

EDUCATION

Ontario Teacher`s Certificate/ Visual Arts 1&2 Faculty of Education U.W.O. 1993

Fine Art –Drawing and Painting, Oxford County Board of Education Night School 1970-72

Watercolour with Marion Drysdale, Ingersoll Creative Arts Centre 1974-76

Fanshawe College Extension Courses, London ON 1974-76

CAREER DEVELOPMENT

OXFORD COUNTY ART PROJECT: Art in Public Spaces, Co-founder Co-curator 2009-2011

FOREST CITY GALLERY, London ON, Preparator - Gay Sensibilities 1996

WOODSTOCK ART GALLERY: EDUCATION OFFICER, 1988-1990

WOODSTOCK ART GALLERY : Guest Curator Children`s Art -from Ontario Arts Council- Creative Artists in Schools projects 1985, 1987

INGERSOLL CREATIVE ARTS CENTRE, Co-ordinator of EXHIBITIONS 1982-present

JUROR, 1997 Photography Exhibition

CHAIRPERSON, 1987-1989

TEACHING: CHILDREN`S ART

ONTARIO ARTS COUNCIL Creative Artists in Schools of Oxford County 1985-1990

INGERSOLL CREATIVE ARTS CENTRE: Young at Art with Ingersoll Schools 2000-2006

Saturday Art Classes, Summer Program

WOODSTOCK ART GALLERY, Drawing and Painting for Children and Teens 1984-1994

GLENHYRST ART GALLERY OF BRANT, Teens Drawing 2000

FANSHAWE COLLEGE , Summer Art Workshop 1994-1995

OXFORD COUNTY BOARD of EDUCATION, Art Grades 1-6 1990-1999

TEACHING: ADULT WORKSHOPS

FANSHAWE COLLEGE, Watercolour, Crouch Library, London ON 1989

Drawing and Painting, Woodstock Campass !984

WOODSTOCK ART GALLERY, Meet The Artist, !994, 2004, 2010. Drawing Workshop, 1984

INGERSOLL CREATIVE ARTS CENTRE, Creative Drawing and Painting 1982-2004 2008

OXFORD COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, Night School 1973-1977

LONDON GALLERY PAINTING GROUP, 1986