
william (bill) austin
artist
Prairie based Peruvian-Canadian multidisciplinary artist, work taking the form of Visual-Art, Pottery, Design, Assemblage, Music & Theory, born and raised in Southern Alberta and educated at the University of Lethbridge (B.F.A.). Research-travel is an essential resource for this practice, with special focus on the Cultures of the Andes, and returns to traditional Academic Art centres throughout Western Europe.
Manifesting primarily in drawing, painting, AV, and decorative-arts, the work draws heavily upon Pre-Colombian American and Pre-modern European pictures with study of Asian-Art Traditions, namely ink-painting and pottery. Orbiting approaches as found in Historical-Mythological & Surrealist Painting, the legacy of dADa and Metaphysical-Painting, still the products are intended to be useful, touched, lived-with and enjoyed, in major part meant to be beautiful celebrations of nature, gratitude for the material, & hopeful visions of the future. With equal stance between the realms of cyberspace, Fine-Art, decor, utility, ceremony, work-shop and fashion, for the purpose of embedding craft and ideas in the everyday, minimizing conventional divisions between art and life.
Rebecca McHugh and Bill are partners, establishing rebbil.ca together in 2024.
for inquires or to see my CV please contact via email at:
WAAARTESANO@gmail(dot)com
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