Ray Mead

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Ray Mead (1921 – 1998). Mead was a Canadian abstract expressionist painter and a member of the artists group known as Painters Eleven. Writing about an exhibition of Mead’s work at The Robert McLaughlin Gallery in 1988,...

Joan Frick

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Joan Frick. Frick (1942 – 2011) was born in Toronto and the majority of her artistic career took place within that cultural community. She was a graduate of École des Beaux-Arts de l’Université de Montréal with a Master of...

Graciela Iturbide

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Graciela Iturbide. A prolific photographer perhaps best known for her black-and-white images of local people in her native Mexico, Iturbide frequently makes women the subject of her photographs, as she feels that they most perfectly...

Lindsay Kemp

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Lindsay Kemp. Kemp (1938 – 2018) was a British dancer, actor, teacher, mime artist, and choreographer. Perhaps best known for his production of Flowers (1974), which was a mime and music show based upon Jean Genet’s...

Amrita Sher – Gil

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Amrita Sher – Gil. Though she died at the age of 28, Sher – Gil has been acclaimed as one of the greatest avant-garde women artists of the early 20th century and a pioneer in modern Indian art. Khushwant Singh, writing...