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William B. Ritchie
Education
Professional Printers Program, 1993-1994 Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Sculpting Apprenticeship, Richard Brixel, 1992, Arborga, Sweden
Master Printer’s Chop, August 1986, Open Studio/ Don Holman and Don Phillips, Toronto, Ontario
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Lithography/Studio major, 1976 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax , Nova Scotia
Printmaking Diploma, 1975 Fanshawe College, London, Ontario, Fine Arts Diploma. 1974 Sheridan College, Brampton, Ontario
Professional Development
Letterpress Printing, Running the Goat Press, 2016,Tors Cove Newfoundland
Book Binding Workshop, Tara Bryan, 2015, St.Michael’s Printshop, St.John’s
Heidelberg Letter press training, 2016 College of the North Atlantic, St.Johns
Related Work History
Design and set up studios Kenojuak Cultural Centre Cape Dorset 2017-2018
Studio Manager/Arts Advisor Kinngait Studios, WBEC Cape Dorset 1996 - June 2019
Arts Advisor/Lithography consultant West Baffin Eskimo Co-Op, Baffin Island 1988 - 1990
Sole Proprietor, custom lithography shop Capelin Cove Press, St. Michael’s, NF 1996 - present
Printer/Technician St. Michael’s Printshop, St. John’s, NF 1995 - 1996
Printshop Consultant (reconfiguration of physical workshop) St. Michael’s Printshop, St. John’s, NF 1994
Printmaking Studio Technician Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta 1990 - 1991
Arts Consultant, Pangnirtung Print Project Dow Canada, Sarnia, Ontario and Pangnirtung, Baffin Island 1989 - 1990
Manager/Development Coordinator Nain Crafts Council, Nain, Labrador 1977 - 1979
Selected Exhibitions
Future Possible, St.John’s Newfoundland, The Room’s, group show June-
September 2019 The Good Land, exhibit and publication
Imago Mundi, Out of the Bush Garden.Venice at Palazzo Loreda August 29, 2017,Venice Biennale (13 May to November 26 2017)
The Wildest Place, Zeehan Gaiety Gallery, Tasmania AU, solo exhibition, catalogue, part of Ten Days On the Island Festival, 2007
Power of Place, Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John’s, NF, Group Exhibition, 2003/2006 touring
Arts 2000, Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts, Stratford, Ontario Juried Exhibition , 2000
Artists in the Park, Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John’s, NF, Group Exhibition, 2000/2001
Merchants, Mariners, and the Northern Seas, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College ArtGallery, Corner Brook, NF Group Exhibition, 1999
Southern Shore Artists, Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador Group Show, 1999
Shaped By the Sea, Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador, Group Show, 1997
Land and Sea, Queen’s University, Belfast, Ireland and the Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador Group Show, 1995
Transformations, Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador Solo Show, 1995
Newfoundland Artists, Bordeaux, France Group Show, 1992
Artists in the Arctic Series, Feheley Fine Arts, Toronto, Ontario Solo Show, 1990
North, Memorial University Art Gallery, St. John’s, NF Group Show, 1990
Struts Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick Solo Show, 1987
Newfoundland Artists, Salon Des Vendanges, Cognac, France Group Show, 1986
New Found Artist Land, Memorial University Art Gallery Touring Group Show, 1986
Making Marks, Memorial University Art Gallery, St. john’s, NF Touring Group Show, 1985
C.A.R. On the Road, Canadian Artists Representatives, Newfoundland and Labrador Touring Group Show, 1984
A Visual Beastiary, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario Group Show, 1984
Newfoundland Impressions, Canada House, London, England Group Show, 1983
Labrador Inuit Mythology Series, Memorial University Art Gallery touring Show with Gilbert Hay
Graphic Newfoundland, Burnaby Art Gallery,Burnaby, British Columbia Group Show, 1982
Eye Level Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia Group Show, 1979
Shooting Gallery, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia Group Show, 1976
Residencies /Conferences
Great Northern Arts Festival (GNAF) Inuvik NWT, invited guest representing WBEC/Kinngait Studios with Tim Pitsiulak and Nicotye Samayualie, July 2014
Holding Down Shadows, the disconnect between discourse and practice in contemporary Inuit Art, Winnipeg Art Gallery 100 years Conference 2012
Holding Down Shadows, the disconnect between discourse and practice in contemporary Inuit Art, a paper for the Inuit Studies Conference Smithsonian Institute November 2012
Ten Days On The Island festival, Tasmania, Exploring the notion of wilderness.Photography, drawing, printmaking based out of Queenstown, Jan-April 2007
Surfaces, Residency, Banff Centre for the Arts,Banff Alberta,1999 Photography and New Media
Artist in Residence, Gros Morne National Park, NF, 1998 Back country exploration, painting and photography
Apocolypso, Residency, Banff Centre for the Arts,Banff,Alberta,1998 Computer based research
Visiting Artist, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario,1994 Visiting Artist,Windsor Printmakers’ Forum,Windsor, Ontario, 1994 Lithography
Visiting Artist and Instructor, Atelier de Lile,Val David, Quebec,1992 Lithography
Visiting Artist and Instructor, St. Michael’s Printshop,St. John’s, NF, 1991 Artist in Residence, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta,1990 - 1991
Touring Artist, Arctic Awareness Program, Devon Island, Ellesmere Island,Cape Columbia, Cornwallis Island, and Bathurst Island, 1989 Painting and Photography
Artist in Residence/Instructor, St. Michael’s Printshop,St. Michael’s, NF, 1982 - 1987, Lithography and Intaglio
Selected Collections
Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario
Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John’s, NF
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada Council Art Bank
Dow Chemical Canada, Sarnia, Ontario
Government House, Saint John, New Brunswick
Government of Newfoundland and Labrador
Petro Canada Canada
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia
St. Clair College, Windsor, Ontario
Them Days Magazine, Happy Valley, Labrador
Contact Information
William B. Ritchie
Box 15, St. Michael’s
Tors Cove, Newfoundland
Canada
A0A 4A0
Tel 709.765 3073
email: writchie@nf.sympatico.ca
