British, 20th–21st century, male.
Born 1963, in England.
Book artist, printmaker, graphic designer, installation artist, art director, writer, educator. Community art, environmental art.
After a Foundation course at Lanchester Polytechnic, Lanchester (1981–1982), Les Bicknell studied graphic design at the London College of Printing (...
American graphic designer, installation artist and design educator. De Bretteville attended Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, NY, and was included in the school’s Art Squad by teacher and artist Leon Friend, who submitted his students’ work to national competitions. She received a prestigious Alex Award, named after the designer Alex Steinweiss, also a former member of the Art Squad. She received a BA in art history from Barnard College, New York in ...
British, 20th century, female.
Born 1974, in Crawley, England.
Book artist, printmaker, graphic arts, public art.
Lucy Harrison received her BFA in graphic arts from the Kent Institute of Art & Design in 1997. She began producing artists’ books and multiples while studying printmaking at the Royal College (...
Swedish, 20th – 21st century, female.
Born 1967, in Sweden.
Installation artist, photographer.
Annika von Hausswolff produces installations in the form of environments, in which objects, the atmosphere and photographic works interact.
1996, São Paulo Biennale
1998, Sightings, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
1999, Venice Biennale...
South African, 20th–21st century, male.
Born 28 April 1955, in Johannesburg.
Draughtsman, engraver, graphic designer, film producer, sculptor, theatre and opera designer and producer. Multimedia, animated films.
Land Art.
Although William Kentridge has practised his creativity in many domains and in a wide range of media (animated films, land art, sculpture, printmaking, theatre and opera design and production, installations), it is chiefly his large-scale charcoal drawings in process (drawing for animation) and his unique, short, animated films and their projection that have given him international fame....
Canadian First Nations (Ojibwa), 20th–21st century, male.
Born 14 March 1931 or 1932, near Beardmore (Ontario); died 4 December 2007, Toronto.
Painter, graphic artist. Figures, animals, Native American subjects.
Woodland Art School.
Norval Morrisseau, an Ojibwa (Anishnaabe) raised traditionally by his grandparents on the Sand Point Reserve near Lake Nipigon, called himself a ‘born artist’ and received no formal art training. In his childhood, he spent a short period at a residential school in Thunder Bay before returning to his family home in Beardmore. He was much influenced by the Ojibwa stories told by his grandparents, and during a life-threatening illness he was given a ceremonial name, Copper Thunderbird, which he signed in Cree syllabics on some of his paintings....
