The Woodstock Art Gallery and London’s Fanshawe College will partner to hold a talk from one of Canadas most distinguished artists.
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Art gallery, Fanshawe partner for artist talk – Woodstock Sentinel Review
John McEwen’s sculpture, ‘The Big Work Horse’, is one of the focal points of the Woodstock Art Gallery’s exhibition. This life size sculpture of a Clydesdale horse is formed out of corten steel stars. (Robin De Angelis/Special to the Sentinel-Review)
The Woodstock Art Gallery and London’s Fanshawe College will partner to hold a talk from one of Canada’s most distinguished artists.
John McEwen will speak on his career and artwork at a keynote lecture March 4 in London at Fanshawe College. The free event is in the school’s D building – in D1060 – at 7 p.m.
The event supports the exhibition Walk On: The Ongoing Sculpture Project of John McEwen, which is running at the Woodstock Art Gallery until June 27.
Mary Reid, the director and curator of the gallery, said they’re excited for the partnership with the faculty of creative industries fine art program at Fanshawe College.
Canadian artist John McEwen speaks at the opening of the exhibition, Walk On: The Ongoing Sculpture Project of John McEwen at the Woodstock Art Gallery last fall. (Custom Concept Photography/Special to the Sentinel-Review)
“John McEwen has been at the forefront of public installation artwork in Canada over the last four decades, and has been recognized internationally for his groundbreaking sculpture work.
“He is an incredible source of knowledge and inspiration for the next generation of Canadian artists.”
McEwen has been worked out of a blacksmith shop in Hillsdale, Ont., since 1972, following his graduation from the Ontario College of Art, now known as the Ontario College of Art and Design.
He’s garnered significant attention and Canada and overseas, exhibiting throughout the county and Australia, Germany and England.
McEwen was commissioned in 1984 to create the Royal Canadian Air Force Hall of Tribute, which is located in the National Aviation Museum in Ottawa.
His project, Searchlight, Starlight, Spotlight, was installed in front of Scotiabank Arena in Toronto in 1998 and he’s had several public art commissions the past two decades.
McEwen’s had his public work displayed at the Olga Korper Gallery in Toronto, the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Ontario. He was awarded the Order of Canada – the country’s highest honour – in 2019.
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LONDON (AP) — With a few daubs of a paintbrush, the Brontë sisters have got their dots back.
More than eight decades after it was installed, a memorial to the three 19th-century sibling novelists in London’s Westminster Abbey was amended Thursday to restore the diaereses – the two dots over the e in their surname.
The dots — which indicate that the name is pronounced “brontay” rather than “bront” — were omitted when the stone tablet commemorating Charlotte, Emily and Anne was erected in the abbey’s Poets’ Corner in October 1939, just after the outbreak of World War II.
They were restored after Brontë historian Sharon Wright, editor of the Brontë Society Gazette, raised the issue with Dean of Westminster David Hoyle. The abbey asked its stonemason to tap in the dots and its conservator to paint them.
“There’s no paper record for anyone complaining about this or mentioning this, so I just wanted to put it right, really,” Wright said. “These three Yorkshire women deserve their place here, but they also deserve to have their name spelled correctly.”
It’s believed the writers’ Irish father Patrick changed the spelling of his surname from Brunty or Prunty when he went to university in England.
Raised on the wild Yorkshire moors, all three sisters died before they were 40, leaving enduring novels including Charlotte’s “Jane Eyre,” Emily’s “Wuthering Heights” and Anne’s “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.”
Rebecca Yorke, director of the Brontë Society, welcomed the restoration.
“As the Brontës and their work are loved and respected all over the world, it’s entirely appropriate that their name is spelled correctly on their memorial,” she said.
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