Teresa Burrows - Artist Profile

BORN
July, 1962 London, England
(I have been a resident of Manitoba for 30+ years living and creating artwork in northern Manitoba)

ADDRESS
76 Silver Crescent, Thompson, Manitoba R8N 0X7
Phone: (204) 778-5685
Fax: (204) 778-7628
Web site: http://www.freudianslits.piczo.com
E-mail: teresaburrows@yahoo.ca

EDUCATION
1984 Bachelor of Fine Arts University of Manitoba, Winnipeg
1984 High School Diploma Grant Park High School, Winnipeg (awarded Chown Centennial Scholarship for academic/artistic achievement)

DESCRIPTION OF WORK
As a fulltime professional artist, teresa burrows works in numerous mediums. She paints, in watercolours and oils, does photography, and digitally altered collages , creates mixed media works and does beadwork. She was trained as a printmaker but only creates a few linocuts every few years as other mediums have become newer obsessions.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Solo/Group Exhibitions

2007 A(las) in rupertsland Heritage North museum Thompson

2006 religion: we agree to disagree A Label for Artists Winnipeg

2006 generations Heritage North museum Thompson

2005generations National Exhibition centre Leaf rapids

2004 bound Ace art inc Winnipeg

2004Spirit way art show Thompson

2003Breasts Godfrey Dean art gallery Yorkton

2003 Grand Jury 7 Winipeg art gallery

2002 the painted pantomime solo exhibition Art gallery of Southwestern ManitobaAGSM

2002 the (un) adorned body month long exhibition of works curated by Stephen Phelps comparing the representations of the human form in my work with that of Winnipeg artist Richard Williams.
2000 Manitoba Society of Artists new members show-Pool of Black Star Wpg Legislative Buildings(2 watercolours and 8 oil paintings received media attention when nine of the pieces were moved to a separate solo exhibition site in the Manitoba Legislature buildings. . Following Minister of Government Services Steve Ashton's interventions and media attention artwork was receiving tours.)
2000 Millennium show-National Exhibition Centre(Leaf Rapids)(group show)
1999 Tip of the Iceberg Solo Exhibition - National Exhibition Centre (Leaf Rapids)(Curator Joan Seddon included 3 drawings, 4 watercolours and 7 oil paintings)

1984 A Juried Art Show - Janet Ian Cameron Gallery (group show) - Winnipeg

Juried Exhibitions
Pieces of my artwork have been selected and exhibited in:
Manitoba Society of Artists since 1991 June-August shows shown to the public in downtown Winnipeg venues(awarded Lynn Sissons Watercolour award 1993and w. Clifford memorial award and 3rd place 2006)

Northern Juried Art Exhibition, 1984-2007(I have won numerous awards in these shows including Best of show, and awards for painting, watercotour, drawing, printmaking, photography, craft,and collage. )

2002 Manitoba Photography Contest/Exhibition, (Wpg) Prairie Zone CAPA awarded Honorable mention for open monochrome "veiled"
2001-2000 Art EXPO Assiniboia Downs (Manitoba Arts Network now invites winning pieces from provincial juried exhibitions and brings them together annually to An Expo) Over years MAN has shown works at Manitoba Legislature.
1999 Manitoba Open Juried Coloured Pencil Exhibition Heritage North Museum
2001 Manitoba Fisheries Art Stamp Competititon Exhibition (work selected to tour for a year throughout Manitoba) 2000


AWARDS / GRANTS / COMMISSIONS
2002 VZS Winnipeg Pictures Film Company uses painting "mending nets" as background set dressing for Lifetime Network movie titles "Coming Forward"
2001 SCI Communications-Regina will include painting mending nets in 2002 calendar
2000 Edmonton Indie rock band Three Days Wiser includes painting Jesus sister's eyes are blister'd in their debut CD's artwork.
1999-2000 Manitoba Arts Council visual grant $2000 to complete a series of larger oil paintings (local newspaper article and Cable TV Interview)
1998 Artlink Services Art on the Internet Competition Award (selected from submissions from Manitoba, Saskatchewan. Alberta and British Columbia artists as winner In painting category, was made a recipient of an online gallery site for anumber of years.

artwork has been selected by Winnipeg Art Gallery art rental and sales -my artwork, photography, designs for ceremony rooms and murals (eg. Thompson Minor Hockey. Thompson (Ringette, Winter Games, Awasis Agency of Northen Manitoba. Ma Mow We Tak Friendship Centre, Canada Employment and Immigration, Culture Heritage and Recreation. Addictions Foundation of Manitoba, Thompson Action Committee on the Status of Women etc.)

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Works of the artist are in private collections across Canada, in England, Australia and Cuba.

ARTS RELATED Activities

Thompson Arts council 2004-2006

Spirit way arts advisory 2004 -2005

Thompson Festival of the Arts 2002-2007

Manitoba Arts Council visual arts juror 2007 councilboard member 2000-2005

Manitoba Society of Artist 2000 - 2007

Ecole Riverside art club instructor 2003-2006