Eric Cameron
Eric Cameron - Governor General’s award in visual arts
Veteran Calgary artist Eric Cameron is one of this year’s winners of a Governor General’s award in visual arts. Cameron studied painting at King’s College, University of Durham, in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, and art history at the Courtauld Institute in London. He has taught at the University of Leeds, England, the University of Guelph, Ontario, the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and is currently teaching at the University of Calgary. Cameron has been exhibiting his art since the 1950s - in his native England, Europe, the U.S. and Canada. He has lectured widely and published extensively, including the major work, English Roots (2001). He has received the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award (1993) and the Gershon Iskowitz Prize (1994). Eric Cameron lives in Calgary.
The jury said the following about him: “In a career that stretches over 40 years, Eric Cameron has demonstrated a fierce dedication to the practice of art, as well as to his work as art historian and teacher. His focus on the process of art - and of life - and transformation (often of everyday objects) has consumed him, and fascinated growing numbers of admirers. He is a highly creative theorist and writer who has intimately explored, through his writing and art, the multi-layered mysteries of art and life.”