Damien Worth
Curriculum Vitae
16 Felling Street, Charlottetown, PEI
C1A 5E7
Tel: 902 894 7909
damworth_hotmail.com
Education
2011 BFA Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, Halifax, NS
2009 BFA program, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Corner Brook, NFLD
2003 Printing Technology diploma Nova Scotia Community College ,Halifax, NS
Exhibitions
2011 Painted Space, Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown PEI. Emerging artist solo show exploring landscape, abstraction and materiality.
Drawing Connections (Art in the Open Festival), Rochford Square, Charlottetown PEI. Light drawing in urban space
StArt Painters of Great Promise, Studio 21, Halifax, NS. Selected to represent NSCAD in national survey of graduating painting students in final year of BFA.
Curated Works, Port Loggia NSCAD Halifax. Professional Practice group exhibit.
Mediations in an Emergency, Anna Leonowens Gallery NSCAD Halifax. Graduation solo exhibit featuring recent paintings that explore the navigation of landscapes in crisis.
Come C(loser), Khyber Arts Center, Halifax. Group intermedia exhibit examining a variety of relationships to media culture.
2010 Snapshot Painting, Anna Leonowens Gallery NSCAD Halifax. Group exhibit investigating contemporary relationships between photography and painting.
Out of Purgatory (Pan Atlantic), Confederation Center of the Arts, Charlottetown, PEI. Collective of artist run centers across Atlantic Canada exchange unfinished works for other centers to complete.
2009 Works Sited, Loggia Gallery at NSCAD, Halifax, NS. Group exhibit investigating contemporary relationships of architecture, urban decay, history and identity.
2008 Your Neckst II, Corner Brook, NFLD. In conjunction with the "Stockpile" festival. A series of site specific performances and installations that address the death of downtown local business.
2007 Out of Purgatory II, Peake Street Studios, Charlottetown, PEI. Re-occurance of exhibition in which members of Artist Collective exchange unfinished artworks for other artists to complete.
2006 Social Tessellation, Gallery in the Guild , Charlottetown PEI. A collaborative show with textile artist Rilla Marshall, exploring abstract geometric forms to convey social themes in relation to both urban and rural landscapes.
Out of Purgatory, Peake Street Studios, Charlottetown. PEI. Members of artist collective participate in artistic experiment in which they exchange unfinished artworks for another to complete.
Puzzles, Peake Street Studios, Charlottetown, PEI. Group exhibition in which artists explore the theme of puzzles, using a variety of mediums and approaches.
2005 Your Neckst/ Stuck, Zetetic Elbowroom, Confederation Court Mall, Charlottetown PEI. An alternate gallery venue, site specific installation that explores the deaths of local business
The Memory Show, Peake Street Studios, Charlottetown. PEI. Group exhibition in which artists explore the theme of memory, using a variety of mediums and approaches.
2004 Jeddith Unravelling, Gallery in the Guild, Charlottetown PEI. Curated by Hilda Woolnaugh. A series of expressive, abstract oil paintings and prints that uses micro-biotic bodily organisms as metaphors for human social behavior.
Workshops/ Residencies/ Collectives
2011 Small Town Print Studio, Charlottetown PEI
This Town Is Small artist run centre, Charlottetown PEI
Khyber Arts Center member, Halifax, NS
2005-10 Peak Street Studio artist collective, Charlottetown, PEI
2005 Force de la Art Squad artist collective, Confederation Center Art Bunker, Charlottetown, PEI
Artist in residence at the Gallery in the Guild, Charlottetown, PEI
2004 Printmaking sessions at the Gallery in the Guild, Charlottetown, PEI
Awards/Achievements
2011 Art in the City Commission, Culture Capital Charlottetown
2010 Robert Pope Foundation Painting Scholarship. Senior painting award NSCAD, Halifax, NS
Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation art competition first place award, Halifax, NS
2008 Francis J. Ryan Memorial Scholarship. Academic achievement award, Corner Brook, NFLD
Collections
2011 Private Commissions for various patrons.
2010 Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation collection Halifax, NS
2008 The Rooms Gallery provincial art bank permanent collection, St. Johns, NFLD
Related Work Experience
2011 Professional Practice exhibit, Port Loggia NSCAD, Halifax, NS. Curator of exhibit titled
Welcome (Again) to the Machine.
2003-06 Print technician and Graphic Design in Atlantic Canadian locations: Charlottetown PEI, Corner Brook NFLD, and Halifax, NS.
