Wayne Eastcott is known as Canada’s foremost experimental printmaker, simultaneously prolific and innovative. He has created new printmaking techniques based on drawing and photographic imagery with a strong technological basis, often reworked with gestural effects. His silkscreen prints are produced with a variety of inks (often handmade) printed on paper and aluminum, producing visually rich collages of man-made natural images. His work invokes feelings of both calm and chaos – a dialogue between nature, humans and technology.
Eastcott graduated with honours in painting and printmaking from the Vancouver School of Art (now Emily Carr University of Art + Design) in 1966. He received a Canada Council Grant in 1968 for development of new printmaking techniques, particularly the Xerox technique. Eastcott began teaching at Capilano College in 1971, and that same year, established the Dundarave Print Workshop (the oldest continuous printmaking studio in BC) with B.C. Binning. He established the printmaking department at Capilano College in 1979. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, including New York, Japan, Yugoslavia, Poland, Germany, Spain, India and Brazil. His work is found in many private, corporate and public collections, as well as the National Gallery of Canada.
“I have always been intrigued by the various systems that make up the created universe as well as the relationship between chance, order, structure and randomness.” Wayne Eastcott Exhibition. Quote by Wayne Eastcott from online blog article by Marja-Leena Rathje, published Oct 8, 2004. http://www.marja-leena-rathje.info/archives/wayne_eastcott_exhibit.
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More info on the artist: Wayne Eastcott – Feckless Collection
Dundarave Print Workshop website
Montecristo Magazine Article on the Dundarave Print Workshop beginnings, April 2021: BC’s Oldest Continuous Printmaking Studio and the Lesser-Known Legacy of Artist Betram Charles Binning
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