David MacWilliam

David MacWilliam has been active in the Vancouver art community for three decades as an artist, teacher and administrator. He is currently 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 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).