Royal Art Lodge
How The Collective creates its art pieces owes a great deal to the processes of the Royal Art Lodge, a Winnipeg-based art collective whose world-class work is worth checking out.
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January 17, 2005
January 16, 2005
The Power Plant and the Drawing Center
The Royal Art Lodge's show, Ask the Dust, was presented at such high-profile venues as The Power Plant in Toronto and The Drawing Center in New York.
Adrian Williams
Adrian Williams, a founding member of the Lodge, gave a detailed account of the Royal Art Lodge's processes and thinking during a presentation in January 2004 in VA-317, a painting and drawing studio in Concordia University's Visual Arts Building in downtown Montreal.
Williams's visit, which was attended by about 60 art students and faculty was arranged by painter Eleanor Bond, a Studio Arts professor at Concordia. An account of the event was prepared by Collective member Robert Winters for the university's Thursday Report publication. You can read Robert's story and see a photo taken at the event at:
Information about Adrian Williams and his work can be found on the Other Gallery's website, at:
January 15, 2005
Collective's Second Show/Interactive Drawing
Don't miss The Collective's second show which runs from Jan. 17 until Jan. 21, 2005, in the lobby of Concordia University's Visual Arts building in downtown Montreal. A selection of collaborative work done by The Collective is presented in this show.
You are invited to special interactive drawing sessions Tuesday and Thursday, noon to 3 p.m., and Friday, 9:30 to 3 p.m., when visitors can draw with members of the art collective or add to somebody else's drawing, then put it up on the wall.
Also on display are collaborative pieces produced by participants during the group's Interactive Wall Project No. 1, held at the university's VAV Gallery in November 2004, as part of its Greater than One show. As well, several of the fascinating collaborative art pieces produced by the audience during a panel discussion on art collaboration are included.
The show is dedicated to The Royal Art Lodge, a Winnipeg-based art collective whose collaborative art-making process was a major inspiration for our group and its way of creating art. The Royal Art Lodge, which has a show at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles until Feb. 14, has welcomed our dedication and sends its best wishes for our project and the exhibition. You can see The Royal Art Lodge's message on the main wall of the show at the Visual Arts building at the corner of René Lévesque Blvd. and Crescent St.
The exhibition was curated by collective members Jarmila Kavena, Stephanie Reynolds, Robert Turenne and Robert Winters.
The Collective operates in collaboration with Concordia's Studio Arts Department. We are co-sponsored by the Fine Arts Student Alliance.
January 14, 2005
Artist Holly King wins commission
Holly King, a Montreal artist who teaches at Concordia University's Studio Arts department, recently won a commission to have one of her large-scale photo images placed at an entrance to the university's new Fine Arts-Engineering building in downtown Montreal.
Holly, a former performance artist whose work is in several museum and corporate collections, has provided advice to The Collective, including in the areas of materials and our processes. You can read about this commission and Holly's work in this Thursday Report story:
Holly King story