David MacWilliam

Bio

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).

work

Kingsway Luminaire

2009

This is a colour test of one of the globes with lights for my Kingsway Luminaires public art project which is part of the City of Vancouver's Mapping and Marking projects for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics.
Kingsway Luminaires

2009

Kingsway Luminaires was comissioned by the City of Vancouver's Public Art Program as part of Mapping and Marking: artist initiated public art projects for Vancouver 2010, and was installed November 2009. Three luminaires were installed at Clark and three at Dumphries on the Kingsway.