Artist Statement
My work engages the concerns and material of painting, colour, form and light. These in themselves have deep and resonant transformative powers. The monkeys enable me to play with imagination and memory through a symbol that is equally majestic and mischievous, social yet natural and most importantly just plain fun. Despite the ups and downs of our existence these works are a celebration of life. Spiritually they find themselves like Vancouver, at the meeting and merging of Western and Eastern philosophical viewpoints. Taoism meets Quantum. These are paintings of and for the 21st century.
-Thomas Anfield
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Curriculum Vitae
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2010 monkey business, Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver BC
2009 monkeyland, Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver BC
2006 Dummies Figures Purses, Gallery O Contemporary
2006 Momo Poppi Popollogy, Gallery O Contemporary
2005 Interiors Elliott Louis Gallery, Vancouver BC
2004 Narthex laboratory Interurban Gallery, Vancouver BC
2004 Gallery 83, Vancouver BC
2002 Vancouver East Cultural Centre
1996 Keith Alexander Gallery, Vancouver
1995 Grunt Gallery, Vancouver BC (curated by Glen Alteen)
1994 Robert Delaney Gallery, Vancouver BC
1992 Barton Leir Gallery, Victoria BC
1992 Gallery Alpha, West Vancouver BC
1991 Open Space Gallery, Victoria BC
1989 Jacqueline M Gallery, Vancouver BC
1986 Jacqueline M Gallery, Vancouver BC
1982 Vancouver East Cultural Centre
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 STYLE WARS, Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver BC
2010 UNLEASHED, Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver BC
2010 The Road Less Travelled, Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver BC
2009 Re-Gifted, Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver BC
2009 The Evolution of Line: Drawings from Past to Present, Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver BC
2007 New Works Ima Gallery Toronto ON
2006 Paint, Gallery O Contemporary
2000 Michaud House Gallery, Vancouver BC
1995 Currents Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Vancouver BC
1994 Co-ordinator Window Art Gallery, DVBIA, Vancouver BC
1993 Gallerie Nationale, Dakar, Senegal
1993 Bibliotheque Nationale, Abidjian, Cote d’Ivoire
1993 Accra Arts Centre, Accra, Ghana
1993 Centre Cultural Francais, Yaounde, Cameroon
1993 The Canadian Club, Lagos, Nigeria
1992 Gabriel Flores Museum, University of Guadalajara, Mexico
1992 Salon de Plastica Mexicana, Mexico City, Mexico
1992 Nancy Poole Studio, Toronto, Ontario
1991 Fertility Rites Gallery Alpha, West Vancouver BC
1991 Galeria Estacion, Cuernavaca, Mexico
1991 Jardin Borda, Cuernavaca, Mexico
1988 Firehall Theatre, Vancouver BC
1985 Unit Pitt Gallery, Vancouver BC
1984 Warehouse Show, Vancouver BC
Education
1985-86 New York Academy of Art (Masters Program)
1983 New York Art Students League
1980-81 Fine Arts Department Langara
Awards
2000 CANADA COUNCIL INTERARTS GRANT,(research)
2004 CANADA COUNCIL INTERARTS GRANT,(travel)
Reviews and Publications
2009 Georgia Straight, October, Alex Varty
2008 Preview Magazine, March, Jim Finlay
2006 The Martlet, October, Reanna Alder
2006 Modern Painters, July/August, Review Christopher Mooney
2006 Globe and Mail, July 13, Paula Citron
2005 Vancouver Magazine, July, Malcolm Perry
2005 Vancouver Sun, July 16, Deborah Meyers
2005 Georgia Straight, June 23, Kelsey Dundon
2005 Georgia Straight ,June 16, Hillary Peach
2005 Elle Canada, April, Clara Young
2005 Preview Magazine, February, Mia Johnson
2005 West Ender, September 11, Catherine Barr
2003 The Dance Current, March, Kaija Pepper
2002 Coast Reporter, Sunday April 14
2001 Gabriola Sounder, July 20, Daniel Izzard
2001 Gabriola Sounder, July 20, Cynthia-Maria Hemsworth
2000 The Ubyssey, Duncan M Mchugh
1998 Globe and Mail, May 11, Celia Sankar
1996 Vancouver Sun, March 2, Robin Ward
1996 Sunshine Press, May 24
1996 Coast Independent, July 1, Jane Seyd
1994 Georgia Straight, June 10, Paula Gustafson
1993 Fraternite-Matin, Cote D’Ivoire, May 27
1992 Excelsior Mexico City, April 17 and 19
1992 North Shore News, July 12, Evelyn Jacob
1991 Vancouver Sun, August 3, Ann Rosenberg
1991 West Ender, July 25, Janet Smith
1991 Monday Magazine, July 18, Frank Nowosad
1991 Vancouver Step Magazine, July, Gloria Davies
1991 Globe and Mail, July 4, Liam Lacey
1991 Diario De Morales, Mexico, June 23, Oscar Mendez
1991 Vancouver Step Magazine, May, Laurence M Svirchev
1991 Vancouver Step Magazine, November, Gloria Davies
1990 The Province, July 27, Rene Doruyter
1989 The Province, April 6, cover
1989 Le Soleil De Colombe, June 16
1989 Vancouver Sun, September 28, Kevin Griffin
1989 Playboard Magazine, June, Esther Rauscenberg
1988 The Street Art/Graffiti of Youth, P. Rafferty
1988 The Province, September 25, Ian Austin
1988 Vancouver Sun, March 16, Elizabeth Godley
1987 The Province, March 4, Kerry Moore
1987 Vancouver Magazine, October, Jane MacDougall
1987 West Ender July, Lisa Christiansen
1987 Vancouver Sun, July, Elizabeth Godley
1987 Vancouver Sun, April 21, Mia Stainsby
1987 Vancouver Sun, April 6, Denny Boyd
1986 Vancouver Sun, November 20, Elizabeth Godley
1986 The Province cover page September 12
1986 New York Times, Saturday July 26, Douglas C McGill
1984 Maclean’s Magazine, November, Mark Budgen
1984 Vancouver Sun, Aug 2, Denny Boyd
1984 The Province, July, Lee Bacchus
1984 Vancouver Sun, June 26, Eve Johnson
TV/RADIO
2010 Shaw TV Studio 4 with Fanny Kiefer
1993 African Brushstokes Film by David Pettigrew
1987 CBC Radio Art Beat with Lyn MacNamarra
1984 CBC Television Vancouver Life and Performance with Carol Taylor
1984 CKVU Interview Shane McCune |
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