April Hickox

Our next Artist You Need To Know is April Hickox. Hickox is a Canadian lens-based artist, teacher and independent curator who has lived on the Toronto Islands since childhood and much of her practice is informed and shaped by her immediate environment. Over nearly...

Jeff Nolte

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Jeff Nolte. He was born in 1950, in Zanesville, Ohio, in the United States: Nolte is a photographer and teacher whose practice is often centred around social and public spheres and expanding portraiture to encompass larger stories...

Robert Heinecken

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Robert Heinecken (1931 – 2006). He spoke of himself as a  “paraphotographer” – because his photographic process and artworks were often made without a camera. Heinecken’s obituary in the New York Times...

Robert W. Fichter

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Robert W. Fichter. A native of Fort Meyers, Florida (he was born in 1939), Fichter grew up in Sarasota, “where the ruins of circus impresario John Ringling’s unfinished Ritz -Carlton Hotel left an indelible impression on him;...

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...