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Art Then and Now – Slow Art in Fast TImes
Margaret Priest (b.1944 – Tyringham, England) was raised and educated in London, England where she received her MFA from the Royal College of Art. She moved to Toronto, Canada in 1976. Known for her drawings and three-dimensional critiques of modernism and the built world, Priest works at the intersections of architecture, design, urban histories and personal memory. Since 1970, she has exhibited in museums and public and private galleries in England, Europe, Canada, Australia, South Africa, and the USA. Her work is in numerous public and private collections including the Tate Gallery, Dallas Museum of Art, Yale University, the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Canadian Centre for Architecture. She has won major public commissions including the Monument to Construction Workers (a large-scale installation in Cloud Gardens Park, Toronto) for which she, the architects, and landscape architects were awarded a Governor General’s Award for Architecture. She is the recipient of prestigious teaching awards and an Honorary Doctorate. Though retired from teaching, she is Professor Emeritus at the University of Guelph and a visiting speaker and critic at museums, universities and schools of art and architecture in Canada and the USA.
Image courtesy of the artist.
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Jarrett Duncan | jarrett.duncan@uleth.ca