Notice Board

Donald Lawrence is a professional visual artist at Thompson Rivers University. In fall 2016, the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery is showing new works by Mr. Lawrence and he will visit Lethbridge to present an exhibit. In conjunction with this visit, the Office of Research & Innovation Services has invited Mr. Lawrence to give a special session on research creation funding for university-affiliated studio and performance artists.

Please join us on Wednesday, September 14, from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. in the Penny Building (PB210) for this session.

Please also note that there is a SSHRC webinar on Insight Grant research-creation funding on Sept. 13 via Adobe Connect:

Preparing an application involving research-creation for Insight Grants (English)

Tuesday, September 13, 2016, 11:30-13:30 MT

https://sshrc-crsh.adobeconnect.com/r318czrs1jz/

Please note that you do not need to register in advance and a question and answer period will follow the presentation. With Adobe Connect, questions must be submitted in writing.

To join via Adobe Connect:

• Click on the Adobe Connect webinar link on the date and time specified.
• Enter your name, and press “Enter”.
• Adjust the volume on your computer.

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• Test your connection
• Get a quick overview

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For any questions, please contact us by email at:  insightgrants@sshrc-crsh.gc.ca or by telephone: 613-996-6976.

Information about The Midnight Sun Camera Obscura Project on Sept. 15 is available here.

Born in Calgary, Alberta (1963) Donald Lawrence has a BFA from the University of Victoria (1986) and an MFA from York University (1988). Through such bodies of artwork as The Beach (1985), Romantic Commodities (1993), The Sled (1995), The Underwater Pinhole Photography Project (ongoing, since 1997), and Torhamvan/Ferryland (2005), Lawrence uses combinations of photography, sculpture, drawing, and installation to relate stories of travel, exploration and mechanical invention to interests in the meeting place of urban and wilderness culture, increasingly around his particular interest in sea kayaking. In addition to paddling on the BC coast he has travelled with folding kayaks to Alaska, Maine, Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, and Tasmania.  There, Lawrence converted one of his kayaks into a floating camera obscura. Together with his Underwater Pinhole Photography Project (since 1997) and the more recent Quidi Vidi Camera Obscura (2014) such works relate Lawrence’s interests in sea kayaking and the ocean environment to a long-standing fascination with early and pre-photographic optical apparatuses. In addition to his studio and teaching practices Lawrence engages in a range of publication and conference activities and has been the recipient of research grants from the BC Arts Council, the Canada Council and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). He is currently the Principal Investigator of The Camera Obscura Project, a SSHRC-funded program of research that involves artists and scholars from Canada, Germany and the Netherlands.