ALASTAIR DICKSON
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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RESUME
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Brutal Scruffs, Riviera Gallery, Toronto
2024, 2023 NEW (+ Vintage) WORK, Mrs Huizenga Gallery, Toronto
2022 Heads UP!, Riviera Gallery, Toronto
2019 Mezzamorphosis, Art at The Mezz, Toronto
2018 Transmogrified, Rectory Gallery, Toronto
2017 The Uncommon Blockhead, Fire Station Creative, Dunfermline, Scotland
2016 Tragicomic Ironies, Rectory Gallery, Toronto
2014 Shelf Aware, Rectory Gallery, Toronto
FILM
The Stone of Folly: Co-writer, designer/builder of sets, props and animated figures for a stop frame animated film awarded the Prix du Jury for short films at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. It was an official selection of the 2002 Annecy International Animated Film Festival, the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival and the Hiroshima Animated Film Festival. It won 2002 Best Animated Short at the Chicago Film Festival.
WORKSHOPS
Sculpture and Creativity: sculpture using found objects, at Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts, Toronto; Ontario Arts Council Artist in Education projects in schools in Toronto and Peterborough
WORK ABROAD
2024, 2023 NEW (+ Vintage) WORK, Mrs Huizenga Gallery, Toronto
2022 Heads UP!, Riviera Gallery, Toronto
2019 Mezzamorphosis, Art at The Mezz, Toronto
2018 Transmogrified, Rectory Gallery, Toronto
2017 The Uncommon Blockhead, Fire Station Creative, Dunfermline, Scotland
2016 Tragicomic Ironies, Rectory Gallery, Toronto
2014 Shelf Aware, Rectory Gallery, Toronto
Pre-show interview for InnerSpace on Space TV
2012 The Occasional Okapi, Rectory Gallery, Toronto
2009 Arcane Alliance, Muse Gallery, Toronto
2005 The Brutish Museum, Edward Day Gallery, Toronto
2002 Characters & props from the animated short film The Stone of Folly, Edward Day Gallery, Toronto
2000 The Salon Show, John Steinberg Salon, Toronto
2000 Head Games, Jet Fuel Café, Toronto
1998 The Lost Menagerie, Rectory Gallery, Toronto
1996 The Archeology of Shape, Coningsby Gallery, London, England
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 The Occasional Okapi, Rectory Gallery, Toronto
2009 Arcane Alliance, Muse Gallery, Toronto
2005 The Brutish Museum, Edward Day Gallery, Toronto
2002 Characters & props from the animated short film The Stone of Folly, Edward Day Gallery, Toronto
2000 The Salon Show, John Steinberg Salon, Toronto
2000 Head Games, Jet Fuel Café, Toronto
1998 The Lost Menagerie, Rectory Gallery, Toronto
1996 The Archeology of Shape, Coningsby Gallery, London, England
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 (Upcoming) Mid-February at Mrs Huizenga Gallery, Toronto
2018 Assemblage, Fine Art Society in Edinburgh, Scotland,
mixed media constructions by Scottish artists over the past fifty years
2018 Exhibition of Artists in Residence, Olive Stack Gallery, Listowel, Ireland
2016 2014 Artscape Gibraltar Point group shows
2008 Gallery Artists Group Show, Muse Gallery, Toronto
2004 Artscape Tenants Show, City Hall, Toronto
2003 The Figure as Object, Southern Highland Craft Guild, Asheville NC, USA
1999 Territory, Gallery 13 13, Toronto
1998 Island: Toronto’s Offshore, The Network Gallery, Toronto
1998 Edward Day Gallery, Toronto
1995 Uncommon Objects, Harbourfront, Toronto
1994 Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Toronto, Best of Show Award
1993 Prime Gallery, Toronto
1992 Round Up: Toronto Island Artists, Toronto
1991 Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto
1998, 1994, 1997, 2014 Toronto Island Art Gallery, Toronto
2018 Assemblage, Fine Art Society in Edinburgh, Scotland,
mixed media constructions by Scottish artists over the past fifty years
2018 Exhibition of Artists in Residence, Olive Stack Gallery, Listowel, Ireland
2016 2014 Artscape Gibraltar Point group shows
2008 Gallery Artists Group Show, Muse Gallery, Toronto
2004 Artscape Tenants Show, City Hall, Toronto
2003 The Figure as Object, Southern Highland Craft Guild, Asheville NC, USA
1999 Territory, Gallery 13 13, Toronto
1998 Island: Toronto’s Offshore, The Network Gallery, Toronto
1998 Edward Day Gallery, Toronto
1995 Uncommon Objects, Harbourfront, Toronto
1994 Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Toronto, Best of Show Award
1993 Prime Gallery, Toronto
1992 Round Up: Toronto Island Artists, Toronto
1991 Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto
1998, 1994, 1997, 2014 Toronto Island Art Gallery, Toronto
FILM
The Stone of Folly: Co-writer, designer/builder of sets, props and animated figures for a stop frame animated film awarded the Prix du Jury for short films at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. It was an official selection of the 2002 Annecy International Animated Film Festival, the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival and the Hiroshima Animated Film Festival. It won 2002 Best Animated Short at the Chicago Film Festival.
WORKSHOPS
Sculpture and Creativity: sculpture using found objects, at Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts, Toronto; Ontario Arts Council Artist in Education projects in schools in Toronto and Peterborough
WORK ABROAD
2022 One-month residency in Listowel, Ireland
2018 Two-month residency in Listowel, Ireland
2017 Three-month residency in Edinburgh, Scotland towards a one-month exhibition
1998 Six-month sabbatical working in sculpture in Paris, France
1989 Six-month sabbatical in Pietrasanta, Italy, creating 12 bronze sculptures in local foundry
COMMISSIONS
2006 Prototype figures for Laika Film, Oregon
2018 Two-month residency in Listowel, Ireland
2017 Three-month residency in Edinburgh, Scotland towards a one-month exhibition
1998 Six-month sabbatical working in sculpture in Paris, France
1989 Six-month sabbatical in Pietrasanta, Italy, creating 12 bronze sculptures in local foundry
COMMISSIONS
2006 Prototype figures for Laika Film, Oregon
1999 Installation for Chinook Centre, Calgary
1992 Sculpture for windows at Tiffany’s, Toronto
Private commissions
EDUCATION
1977 Diploma in German, University of Munich
1975 Diploma in sculpture, Edinburgh College of Art
PERSONAL
Born in Dunfermline, Scotland; married with two adult children
1992 Sculpture for windows at Tiffany’s, Toronto
Private commissions
EDUCATION
1977 Diploma in German, University of Munich
1975 Diploma in sculpture, Edinburgh College of Art
PERSONAL
Born in Dunfermline, Scotland; married with two adult children