David MacWilliam

Bio

David MacWilliam has been active in the Vancouver art community for three decades as an artist, teacher and administrator. He is Dean of the Faculty of Visual Art and Material Practice.

Consistent in his art practice is an interest in colour, form and beauty. His artworks are the result of a highly refined process: he works and re-works how one form might sit in relation to another, how one colour offsets the next, how the speed of a curve can define the gestalt of a shape.

His current research focuses on observable, real-time coloured light environments in public settings. Kingsway Luminaires (2009) is the most recent of his public projects that explore the illumination of simple forms with slowly shifting coloured LED lights. One-person exhibitions of his paintings include the Vancouver Art Gallery (1990), Galleria Panorama, Barcelona (1997), the Musée Régional de Rimouski, in Quebec (1998) and Winchester Galleries, Victoria (2006).

work

Folding Inkblots

2011

Over this past summer I have been compiling a small book: Folding reproducing twenty folded inkblot paintings I made a few years ago. Here's a few of the images.
Drawings

2011

I have been working on a series of drawings which are based on some mesh drawings I made a couple of years ago. These drawings build off interlocking hexagonal and pentagonal shapes connected with mesh triangles. I see these drawings as studies for some new paintings I'm about to make. Here's a selection from eighteen or so that I feel are the most interesting.
Galiano Island Walking Stick/Monopod, Toshiba PDR M4 and photograph

2010

This photograph is part of my artwork: Galiano Island Walking Stick/Monopod, Toshiba PDR M4 and photograph, August 20, 2010 on exhibition in the Faculty Show 10 in the Concourse Gallery from September 7- 19th.