Donald Lawrence, C.V.
Donald Lawrence, Associate Professor: Curriculum VitaeOct 2009
Chair, Dept. of Visual and Performing Arts, Thompson Rivers University
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note re: C.V. format
This C.V. is formatted in a manner typical for academic purposes but giving primacy to exhibitions (and related activities) as these are a primary mode of creation/dissemination in visual arts. Where appropriate, sections are introduced with explanatory notes for those without specialized knowledge in the field of visual arts — to such things as residency programs and equivalency to peer review in visual arts practice.
1.Post-Secondary Education and Residencies:
(note: Residencies are working studio facilities, equipped for artists to create bodies of work and, in the case of such large residency programs as the Banff Centre, to engage with a broad cross section of visual arts’international community of artists, critics and curators)
- Banff Centre, Residency (“Making Artistic Inquiry Visible”)Banff, ABMay-Jun, 2008
- Klondike Institute of Art and Culture, ResidencyDawson City, YK Jun, 2004
- James Baird Studio, Residency Pouch Cove, NFLDApr, 2002
- Banff Centre, Residency (Photography)Banff, ABFeb-Mar, 1995
- York University, MFA (Visual Arts)Toronto, ON1988
- University of Victoria, BFA (Visual Arts, Honours)Victoria, BC1986
2.Record of Employment:
- Since 1990: Thompson Rivers University (TRU), Kamloops, BC
- Current Academic Rank: Associate Professor (since April 19, 1999)
- Chair, Visual and Performing Arts (Jun 2007 – May 2010 and Jun 1998 – May 2001)
- Coordinator, Visual Arts: Jan 2007 – May 2008
- 1989-90: Sessional Lecturer, University College of the Cariboo (now TRU),Kamloops, BC
- 1989:Lecturer, University of Victoria, Victoria BC
- Part-time Instructor, Winter Semester
- Sessional Instructor, Summer Session
- 1987-88: Sessional Lecturer, York University, Toronto, ON
- 1986-87: Teaching Assistant, York University, Toronto, ON
3.Exhibitions and Related Artistic Activities:
(note: Solo and group exhibitions are a primary form of creative/research practice/dissemination in Visual Arts. All listed exhibitions in “3a” and “3b” are curated or juried by professional curators/jurors (or artist-curated in professional venues as noted) and in this respect are the equivalent of peer-reviewed practice typical of academic disciplines.)
3aSelected Solo Exhibitions:
Lawrence, Donald. Torhamvan/Ferryland, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, 2005
Lawrence, Donald. The Underwater Pinhole Photography Project and Kayak Travel Journals, Kennedy Arts Center, North Bay, ON, 2005
Lawrence, Donald. The Underwater Pinhole Photography Project, Odd Gallery, Dawson City, YK, 2004
Lawrence, Donald. Kayaks and Caissons, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC, 2002
Lawrence,Donald. The Underwater Pinhole Photography Project, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC, 2002
Lawrence, Donald. The Underwater Pinhole Photography Project, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, NS, 2002
Lawrence, Donald. The Underwater Pinhole Photography Project and Kayak Travel Journals, Gallery Connexion, Fredericton, NB, 2002
Lawrence, Donald. The Underwater Pinhole Photography Project, Gallery 44, Toronto, ON, 2001
Lawrence, Donald. The Underwater Pinhole Photography Project, Gallerie Vox, Montreal, QUE, 2000
Lawrence, Donald. Kayak Works, Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo, BC, 1999
Lawrence, Donald. Vehicles of Exploration, Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse, YK, 1998
Lawrence, Donald. The Sled and the Storm Kit, Comox Valley Art Gallery, Courtney, BC, 1997
Lawrence, Donald. Outdoor Bound: Maquettes and Related Works, Prince George A.G., Prince George, BC, 1996
Lawrence, Donald. Romantic Commodities, Stride Gallery, Calgary, AB, 1993
Lawrence, Donald. Romantic Commodities, Alternator Gallery, Kelowna, BC, 1993
Lawrence, Donald. Portable Landscapes, X-Changes Gallery, Victoria, BC, 1990
Lawrence, Donald. Selected Works, The Library Gallery, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, 1989
Lawrence, Donald. Sleeping Devices for York, Market Gallery, Toronto, ON, 1988
Lawrence, Donald. Bamfield Works 1983-86, Maltwood Art Gallery, Victoria, BC, 1986
3bSelected Group Exhibitions:
(note: exhibition curators/jurorsnoted in parentheses where appropriate)
Lawrence, Donald. “The Beach,” The Wild So Close (Jennifer Cane),Or Gallery, Vancouver, BC, 2009
Lawrence, Donald. “One Eye Folly,” Ice Follies (Demot Wilson), W.K.P. Kennedy Art Gallery (project on frozen Lake Nipissing), North Bay, ON, 2998
Lawrence, Donald. “The Underwater Pinhole Photography Project, Image and Apparatus (Melanie Townsend), Museum London, London, ON, 2007
Lawrence Donald and W.F. Garrett-Petts. Witness Marks: The Exotic Close to Home (Lisa Baldiserra), The Lab, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC, 2006
Lawrence Donald. “The Drumheller Albertosaurus,” Proximities: Artists Statements and Their Works (W.F. Garrett-Petts and Rachel Nash),Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC, 2005
Lawrence, Donald. “Scotch Boiler I and II,” 25 Years: 25 Artists, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC, 2005
Lawrence, Donald. “The Sled,” CAMPsites (Melanie Townsend and Anthony Kiendl),Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, AB, 2005
Lawrence, Donald. “The Underwater Pinhole Photography Project,” Photo Roman (Rory Wallace and Joanne Marion),Medicine Hat Art Gallery, Medicine Hat, AB, 2005
Lawrence, Donald. “Tidal Clock for Vancouver,” Artropolis 2001, CBC Studios, Vancouver, BC, 2001
Lawrence, Donald. “The Sled,” Pictures, Positions, Places (Daina Augaitus),Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, 2000
Lawrence, Donald. “The Sled,” Model Homes: Concepts in Alternate Living (Catherine Crowston), Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB, 1999
Lawrence, Donald. “The Sled,” Exploring the Permanent Collection (Andrew Hnter), Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC, 1999
Lawrence, Donald. “Starfish and Feeding Sea anemone,” Pinholes in Paradise (artist-curated), Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, BC, 1998
Lawrence, Donald. “The Sled,” Home Base (artist-curated), Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC. 1998
Lawrence, “The Sled: New Museum maquette,” Browser (Artropolis 97) (Kitty Scott and Andrew Renton), The Roundhouse, Vancouver, BC, 1997
Lawrence, Donald. “The Sled,” Topographies (Monika Kin Gagnon and Grant Arnold), Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, 1996
Lawrence, Donald. “‘Hebrides’ and ‘Maine’ Journals,” The Eccentric Book (artist-curated), Kakali Paper, Vancouver, BC, 1995
Lawrence, Donald. “‘Hebrides’ and ‘Maine’ Journals,” A Book is a Place (artist-curated), the Franco Manitoban Cultural Centre, Winnipeg, MB, 1995
Lawrence, Donald. “Extrasport Lifejacket,” 1995 Regional Exhibition (Ian Thom), Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC, 1995
Lawrence, Donald. “Kayak,” The Constructed Environment (Leanne Davidson), Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC, 1993
Lawrence, Donald. “Pinhole Portraits,” Artropolis 90: Lineages and Linkages (Ann Rosenburg), The Roundhouse, Vancouver, BC, 1990
Lawrence, Donald. “Vining Street Tableau,”Explorations (Lynn Beavis), Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, B.C., and Le Centre d’Exposition, du Vieux Palais, St. Jerome, QUE, 1990
Lawrence, Donald. “Vining Street Tableau,”New Works (Regan Morris), Mercer Union Gallery, Toronto, ON, 1989
Lawrence, Donald. “Bamfield Works,” ‘BC Place’Helen Pitt Exhibition, Robson Square, Vancouver, BC, 1986
3cSelected Artists’ and Curatorial Projects:
Lawrence, Donald. Et al. Court House Project (primary coordinator (as lead researcher of SSHRC Research/Creation project, with Bruce, Baugh, Panya Clark Espinal, W.F. Garrett-Petts, David Hoffos, Walter Lew, Glen Lowry, Ernie Kroeger, and Celeste Olalquiaga). The projectbrought together an international group of artists and scholars. Each of four artists created installation works to occupy rooms in Kamloops’ former/historical law courts. These collective projects provided the setting for a public lecture (Olalquiaga (France)) and panel discussion in which each artist was paired with a scholar (cultural theory, English/criticism, philosophy) to consider aspects of vernacular-based practice in their projects and broader practices. In collaboration of Vancouver’s Contemporary Art Gallery the collective works of the Court House Project were anthologized and extended in Staging Vernaculars, a special issue of the literary journal West Coast Line (2007), 2005
Lawrence, Donald. “The Kamloops Archipelago,” Court House, Kamloops Former Law Courts, Kamloops, BC, 2005
Lawrence, Donald, W,F, Garrett-Petts and David MacLennan. Relocating The Homeless Mind: Memory, Landscape, the Small City and Rural Community, Comox Valley Art Gallery, Comox, BC, 2004
Lawrence, Donald and W.F. Garrett-Petts.PhotoGraphic Encounters, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC, 1998
3dArtworks in Public Collections
Vancouver Art Gallery, The Sled (installation and photographs), 1997
Kamloops Art Gallery, The Sled (photographs), 1996
York University, Sleeping Devices for York (an excerpt from an installation), 1988
4.Books
W.F. Garrett-Petts and Donald Lawrence. PhotoGraphic Encounters, Prose Pictures and Visual Fictions, Edmonton, University of Alberta Press, 2000
W.F. Garrett-Petts and Donald Lawrence. Integrating Visual and Verbal Literacies. Eds W.F. Garrett-Petts and Donald Lawrence, Winnipeg Manitoba, Inkshed Publications, 1996
5.Refereed Publications
Lawrence, Donald. “Fiddle Reef, Remembered: Integrating Artistic and other Modes of Inquiry.” Eds. Craig Saper, W.F. Garrett-Petts and John Craig Freeman, Imaging Place, Kamloops, BC, Textual Studies in Canada, 2009, p. 67-76
MacLennan, David and Donald Lawrence, and W.F. Garrett-Petts. “Storymapping: Exploring the Naturalists’ Sense of Place.” (Eds. Craig Saper, W.F. Garrett-Petts and John Craig Freeman, Imaging Place, Kamloops, BC, Textual Studies in Canada, 2009, p. 77-86
Lawrence, Donald. “Dwelling, Display and Vernacular Practice in the Personal Museum: Study and Play in Eisinga’s Planetarium, Hille van Dieren’s Wrakken Museum and Sir John Soane's Museum,” The International Journal of the Inclusive Museum, Victoria, Australia, Volume 1, Issue 4, pp.163-174
Lawrence, Donald. “Fiddle Reef, Remembered: Integrating Artistic and other Modes of Inquiry.” Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge < Textual Studies in Canada 18.
MacLennan, David and Donald Lawrence, and W.F. Garrett-Petts. “Storymapping: Exploring the Naturalists’ Sense of Place.” Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge < Textual Studies in Canada 18.
Lawrence, Donald, “Acts of Remembering,” Staging Vernaculars, a special issue of West Coast Line, Vancouver, BC., Iss. 50, 2007, p.32-39.
Garrett-Petts, W.F. David Maclennan, Donald Lawrence and Bonnie Yourk), “Vernacular Landscapes: Sense of Self and Place in the Small City,” Ed. W.F. Garrett-Petts, The Small Cities Book: On the Cultural Future of Small Cities, Vancouver, New Star Books, 2005, pp145-162
Garrett-Petts, W,F. and Donald Lawrence, “Vernacular Landscapes II: Relocating the Homeless Mind,” Ed. W.F. Garrett-Petts, The Small Cities Book: On the Cultural Future of Small Cities, Vancouver, New Star Books, 2005, pp167-178
Garrett-Petts, W.F. and Donald Lawrence “The Idea of Water: Frozen Words, Frozen Images.” Eds. Fabio Mugnaini, and Caterina Ricciardi, Water in Canadian Culture: Reality and Metaphor, Siena: Associazione di Studi Canadesi, 1998, pp. 24-34.
Lawrence, Donald. “The Pen: A Selection of Photographs,” Eds. P.J. Murphy and Jennifer Murphy. Sentences andParoles: A Prison Reader. New Star Books, 1998 pp. 126-135
Garrett-Petts, W.F. and Donald Lawrence “Thawing the Frozen Image/Word: Vernacular Postmodern Aesthetics,” Mosaic, Vol. 31, no.1, Mar. 1998, pp. 144-178.
Garrett-Petts, W.F. and Donald Lawrence) “The New Vernacular: Alternative Frontiers in Visual and Verbal Narration.” Eds. Allen Seager, L.F. Evenden, and Rowland Lorimer. Alternative Frontiers. Ottawa: Association of Canadian Studies, 1997, pp.127-158
Garrett-Petts, W.F. and Donald Lawrence. “Introduction,” Integrating Visual and Verbal Literacies, Winnipeg, Inkshed Publications, 1996, pp.1-18
Garrett-Petts, Donald lawrence and Darlene Kalynka) “Authority is an Attribute: an interview with Suzy Lake,” Textual Studies in Canada 2, Winter, 1992, pp. 68-84
6.Selected Catalogues and Reviews
(note: these are published works, by others, pertaining to my own (primarily artistic) works. Variously and, as noted, they take the form of: catalogues, book-form publications to accompany an exhibition (cat); exhibition brochures (broch); film documentaries (film); conference proceedings (proceed); interviews (int); reviews of exhibited works (rev); essays (essay); and books (book))
Ventura, Héliane , "The Vernacular Moment: An Interview with W.F. Garrett-Petts and Donald Lawrence by Héliane Ventura" (int), Les transgressions verbi-voco-visuelles au Canada contextualisées de Catulle à Teshigahara, Héliane Ventura & Philippe Mottet, (Dirs.), Editions L'Instant Même, Québec, à paraître en 2009 (in press).
Pollock, Ann. “La réciprocité: interface sociale et art public / Reciprocal Actions: The Social Interface & Public Art” (rev), ESPACE, #88, Summer 2009, p.16
Cane, Jennifer. The Wild So Close (broch), Or Gallery, Vancouver, BC, 2009
Renner, Eric. Pinhole Photography: From historic technique to digital application(book), Burlington, MA., Focal Press, 2009. p.191-194.
W.F. Garrett-Petts. And Rachel Nash “Re-Visioning the Visual: Making Artistic Inquiry Visible.” (Eds. Craig Saper, W.F. Garrett-Petts and John Craig Freeman, Imaging Place, Kamloops, BC, Textual Studies in Canada, 2009, p. 51-63
Olalquiaga, Celeste, “Third Nature or the End of Origins,” Staging Vernaculars, a special issue of West Coast Line(essay), Vancouver, BC., Iss. 50, 2007, p.40-53.
Baugh, Bruce, “Home Thoughts” (cat),Staging Vernaculars, a special issue of West Coast Line, Vancouver, BC., Iss. 50, 2007, p.54-69.
Will, John. “Invent This!: John Will Interviews Donald Lawrence and M.N. Hutchinson,” BlackFlash(int), Saskatoon, SK., Vol.25.1, 2007, p. 26-23, 29A
Edelstein, Susan, Image and Apparatus, (cat)Museum London, London, ON, 2007
Toews, Ian. “Deer Group Islands with Donald Lawrence,” Landscape as Muse III (film), 291 Film Company, Regina: broadcast on Bravo, SCN, Knowledge Network, and AVRO (Netherlands).
Diviney, David. “In Review” (rev), Canadian Art, Summer 2006, Vol.23, No.2, p.88
Papararo, Jennifer. “Donald Lawrence: ‘Torhamvan/Ferryland’” (broch), Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, 2005
Garrett-Petts, W.F. and Rachel Nash. Proximities:Artists’ Statements and Their Works (cat), Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC, 2005
Wallace, Keith. Kayaks and Caissons (cat), Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC, 2003
Laurence, Robin. “Pinhole Cameras Are Artworks Themselves” (cat), The Georgia Strait, Vol. 36, Sept. 5th-12th, 2002, p.56
Mueller, Ingrid. “The Underwater Pinhole Photography Project and Kayaking Travel Journals” (rev),Arts Atlantic, Summer 2002, No.72, p. 59
Mahoney, Rory, and Marion, Joanne. Photo Roman (cat), Medicine Hat Art Gallery, Medicine Hat, AB, 2002
McCormick, Katy with Corrine Corry, Susan Gibson Garvey and Karen Ruet. Donald Lawrence: The Underwater Pinhole Photography Project (cat),Toronto, Gallery 44 with Dalhousie Art Gallery, Gallery Connexion and Richmond Art Gallery, 2002
Ruet, Karen. “Work that Clicks” (rev),The New Brunswick Reader, April 20, 2002, p.6-7
Lowry, Glen. “Between Vernaculars: Talking PhotoGraphic Encounters” (rev),West Coast Line, Vancouver, Simon Fraser University, no. 34, 35/1, Spring 2001
Dault, Gary Michael. “Dreamboats for Postmodern Explorers” (rev),The Globe and Mail, Jan. 6, 2002, p.R-10
Bouchard, Gilbert. “Reading Pictures” (rev),Edmonton Journal, Dec.15, 2000, p.E-6
McCormick, Katy. The Underwater Pinhole Photography Project (broch), Gallery 44, Toronto, ON
Garrett-Petts, W.F. “Photography as Narrative Invention: The ‘Secret Victorian’ Aesthetic” (proceed),TheVisual Narrative Matrix, ed. Graham Coulter-Smith, Southampton, Visual Arts Research Centre, Southampton Institute, 2000. pp. 111-115
Drewery, Dale. “State of the Art” (film), CBC Television, The Underwater Pinhole Photography Project and The Sled, short documentaries broadcast on Newsworld, and Absolutely Canadian,CBC Artspots, 2000
Harris, George. Vehicles of Exploration (broch), Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse, YK, 1998
Hunter, Andrew.Homebase: Notes to an Installation, (exhibition catalogue) Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC, 1998
Scott, Kitty and Andrew Renton. "Browser: Artropolis 97" (cat (CD-rom)), A.T Eight Artropolis Society, Vancouver, BC, 1997
Gagnon, Monika Kin “Moving Ground Underfoot,” Topographies (cat) Vancouver Art Gallery, 47-85, 1996
Morris, Randall "The Individual Myth: Homage to Authenticity," New Observations(essay), iss. 108, Sept/Oct,1995
Garrett-Petts, Will, "Negotiating Personal Narrative through Image and Text: Donald Lawrence's Romantic Commodities" (rev), Artichoke, Nov. 1993, pp.75-81
Rosenburg, Ann. Artropolis 90: Lineages and Linkages (cat), A.T. Eight Artropolis Society, Vancouver, BC, 1990
Beavis, Lynn Explorations, (exhibition catalogue) Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC, 1990
ArtViews, Toronto, Vol.14, no. 1, Winter, 1987-88
Images B.C., (exhibition catalogue), Assembly of B.C. Arts Councils, Vancouver, BC, 1986
7.Selected Artist’s Talks and Conference Presentations
(note: Artist’s talks are lectures by an artist where their own work provides a basis for the lecture’s content. Typically these are associated with an exhibition or are a part of a university’s visiting artist lecture series.)
“The Small Cities CURA,” (presentation) and “Sandy Island Story-Mapping” (workshop), Map my Culture: Community and Space in Small Cities (conference), North Island College, Comox, BC, May 14-16, 2009.
Lawrence, Donald. “Dwelling, Display and Vernacular Practice in the Personal Museum: Study and Play in Eisinga’s Planetarium, Hille van Dieren’s Wrakken Museum and Sir John Soane's Museum,” The Inclusive Museum (conference), Leiden, Netherlands, June 8-11, 2008.
MacLennan, David, Donald Lawrence and Justin Philcox. “Hidden Places; A Microgeography of Youth Culture.” Explorations in Qualitative and Arts-Based Research (conference), TRU, Aug. 29, 2008.
Artist’s Talk, Concordia University, Montreal, QUE, Mar. 2008
Transgressions, conference presentation, University of Orleans, Orleans, France, May 2007
Imaging Place, conference presentation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, Feb. 2007
Artists’ Talk (with W.F. Garrett Petts), Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC, Aug, 2006
Artist’s Talks/Panels: Court House, Kamloops, BC; Proximities, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops,, BC; Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, AB; W.K.P. Kennedy Art Gallery, North Bay, ON; White Mountain Academy, Elliot Lake, ON, Oct 2005
Art in the Small City (panel), Small Cities Forum, Kamloops, May, 2005
Artist’s Talks, Odd Gallery, Dawson City, YK; University of Washington, Pullman, WA, Mar 2004
“Fred Douglas’ ‘Flutter’” (panel presentation with Fred Douglas and WF Garrett-Petts), The Photograph, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Mar, 2004
Okanagan University-College, Kelowna, BC, Kelowna, BC, Jan ,2003
“Representing Kamloops (CURA),” (with W.F. Garrett-Petts and Helen MacDonald-Carlson) for Assembly of B.C. Arts Councils, Vernon, BC, Jan, 2002
Artist’s Talks: Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, NS; Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, NS; Paddlefest, St Andrews; NB, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Cornerbrook, NL; Gallery Connexion, Fredericton, NB; New Brunswick Craft College, Fredericton, NB; University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, 2002
“The Vernacular of Interdisciplinary Practice,” Changing Role of the Artist II, conference, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC, May 2001
Artist’s Talk, Gallery 44, Toronto, ON, Jan 2001
“PhotoGraphic Encounters” (with WF Garrett-Petts), Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC, Oct 2000
“Narrative Structures in The Underwater Pinhole Photography Project and The Sled” (collaborative presentation with Will Garrett-Petts), “The Visual Narrative Matrix” conference, Visual Arts Research Centre, Southampton Institute, Southampton, England, Nov, 1999