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Barbara Milne
Barbara Milne Biography
Born in Windsor Ontario, Milne has an Honours degree in Fine Arts from York University in Toronto. In 1979 she moved to Calgary. Impressed with the space, light and monumentality of her surroundings, Milne began to address the subject of landscape. Seeing the environment as both powerful and fragile, Milne reshapes her surroundings through sketches, collage and memory, resulting in work that presents a parallel experience and emotional resonance of place.
Milne has attended various artist residencies in Iceland, Newfoundland, Skoki and the Columbia Icefield. She taught as a sessional instructor in Painting and Drawing at the the Alberta College of Art from 1988 to 2012. In 2016, a self-directed residency entitled, "Responding to the collection of the Whyte Museum" in Banff, was followed by a solo exhibition and catalogue at the Whyte Museum. She has exhibited in public and private galleries across Canada and her works are in collections in Canada and Internationally, including the Canada Council Art Bank, the Canadian Embassy in Brussels, Bank of America, and The Alberta Foundation for the Arts. She is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy.
Married to artist Bill Laing for 38 years, together they have 2 adult children, twins, Claire and David.
EDUCATION
1979 Bachelors of Fine Arts, (4 year Honours Degree)
York University, Toronto
AWARDS
2009 ACAD Professional Development Funding – Gullkistan Residency, Iceland
2008 ACAD Professional Development Funding for Vancouver Exhibition, April 2008 Alberta Foundation for
the Arts Project Grant
2004 Nominated and elected to the Royal Canadian Academy
2003 Alberta Foundation for The Arts Project Grant
1998 Alberta Foundation for The Arts Project Grant
COLLECTIONS
Canadian Embassy, Brussels, Belgium
Alberta Foundation for the Arts
Whyte Museum of Canadian Rockies
Canada Council Art Bank
Calgary Allied Arts Foundation
Glenbow Museum
Air Canada
Nickle Arts Museum
Bank of America
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Edge Gallery Calgary
2017 Paul Kuhn Gallery
2016-2017 Responding To the Collection of the Whyte Museum
2013 Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary
2012 Edge Gallery, Canmore
2011 Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary
2008 Nickle Arts Museum
Atelier Gallery, Vancouver
Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary
2006 Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary
2004 Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary
*catalogue
2003 Atelier Gallery, Vancouver
2002 Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary
2001 Atelier Gallery, Vancouver
2000 Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary
1998 Atelier Gallery, Vancouver
Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary
James Baird Gallery, St. John’s, Nfld.
1997 Atelier Gallery, Vancouver
1996 Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 The Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Drawn to the West
Artistic Pairings, Herringer Kiss Gallery, Calgary
Last Picture Show, Edge Gallery, Calgary
2018 Two Person Show with Dave More,The Edge Gallery in Canmore
2017 Audain Art Museum, Whistler, BC : Stone and Sky: Canada's Mountain Landscape
Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies:New Acquisitions
2012 Faculty Exhibition ACAD
2011 The National Capital Commission (NCC),
in collaboration with the Canada Council Art Bank,
Provincial and Territorial Confederation Boulevard Banners. Represented Alberta
Faculty Exhibition ACAD
2010 Faculty Exhibition ACAD
2009 Gullkistan Artist Residency,Iceland - 2 Person Show
Art Gallery of Calgary , Gallery Without Walls: Celebrating 50 Years, Calgary Allied Arts Foundation -
50 Artists from the Calgary Civic Art Collection
2008 Art Gallery of Alberta “The Essence of Landscape” The Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling
Exhibition Program
Alberta College of Art – Faculty Exhibition
2007 Nickle Arts Museum – “Alberta Formed” – work from the permanent collection
Alberta College of Art and Design - Print Exhibition “Collaborations”
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina “From Where I Stand”
Contemporary Landscapes by Canadian Artists
2005 Alberta High Commission, Washington DC
2003-2005 Ilingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art, Faculty Show
2000 Nickle Arts Museum, University of Calgary,
“INLAND: Narrative in Western Landscape”
1999 Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta
“The Path To Skoki”
1998 Art Gallery of Nfld. And Labrador, St. John’s
“The Painters Newfoundland”
1997 The Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton
“Celebrating a Legacy” Alberta Foundation for the Arts 25th. Anniversary Exhibition
1996 McMichael Gallery, Ontario
*catalogue
“Hidden Values” :Contemporary Canadian Art Corporate Collections
Drabinsky Gallery, Toronto, Summer Exhibition
ARTS JURIES
2002 Grant Jury, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Edmonton, Alberta
1996 Grant Jury, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Edmonton, Alberta
1988 Art Bank Slide Jury, Ottawa, Ontario
ARTIST PRESENTATIONS
October 2019 Art Walk, Edge Gallery Calgary
April 2017 Paul Kuhn Gallery
October 2016 Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
Dec. 2008 Artist Talk Nickle Arts Museum, U. of C. Art Dept. Visiting Lecture Series.
Oct. 2008 Artist Talk Nickle arts Museum, Calgary
April 2000 Guest Artist Speaker, Alberta College of Art and Design
Nov. 1988 Guest Artist Speaker, Red Deer College, Red Deer, Alberta
Feb. 1998 Guest Artist Speaker, Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador,St. John’s
March 1996 Guest Artist Speaker, Nickle Arts Museum, University of Calgary
COMMISSIONS
1999 C.P.Hotels, Vancouver Airport Hotel
1989 17th Ave. Mural ”Night and Day”
RESIDENCIES AND WORKSHOPS
July 2009 Gullkistan 2 week Artist Residency, Iceland
Sept. 1998 “The Path to Skoki” A week long hiking and painting trip to Skoki, Alberta.
Sponsored by the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta
July 1997 Pouch Cove Residency Programme, A month long, painting and research in preparation for 22
person group exhibition at Art Gallery of Labrador, St. John’s, Nfld., entitled, “Painters’ Newfoundland
August 1993 “Columbia Icefield Expedition” A week long hiking trip to paint and research in preparation for
exhibition at Whyte Museum of Canadian Rockies.
TEACHING
1998 - 2012 Sessional Instructor at The Alberta College of Art and Design, Painting Department
BIBLIOGRAPHY
“Painting the Whyte” Portia Priegart, Galleries West 2016
Smith, Caroline, CBC Radio Interview for “Overland” Exhibition, Jan. 2009
Salahub,Jennifer, Paths,Corridors and Intervals, Exhibition Essay for Catalogue “Overland” 2008
Christine Sowiak, The Cadance of Land, Exhibition Essay fo Catalogue “Overland” 2008
Tousley, Nancy,Barbara Milne: Critic’s Pick Calgary Herald October 2008
Robin Laurence Barbara Milne: Overland and Erin McSavaney:
Seven Paintings of South Vancouver Georgia Strait, April 17, 2008
*catalogue
Patricia Ainslie and Mary-Beth Laviolette, An Illustrated Guide to a Hundred and Fifty Years of Alberta
Art, 150 pages, soft cover 2007
Mary-Beth Laviolette, Alberta Art Cronicle: A history of Contemporary Art in Alberta: 1970 to 2000, 300
Pages, soft cover
Vida,Sandra, Prairie Landscapes are Humming with Life, Fast Forward, May 2nd. 2002
Gustafson,Paula, Barbara Milne at Atelier Gallery,Asian Art News,Jan. 1999
Laviolette,Mary-Beth, The Skoki Expedition, Artichoke, Feb 1999
Severson, Ann. A Prairie Girl’s Maritimes, Fast Forward, May 1998
Woodrow, Paul, The Spectacle of Memory, Exhibition Essay for Catalogue,”Island” 1998
Tousley, Nancy, Brush with Beauty, Calgary Herald Dec. 6th. 1996
Johnson, Mia, Preview, Preview Magazine, Nov. 1995
Lawrence, Robin, Saturday Review, The Vancouver Sun, Nov. 4th. 1999
Tousley, Nancy, Artist C