G. Scott MacLeod
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G. Scott MacLeod Art & Music BIO
Scott MacLeod grew up in Montreal and has worked as a professional artist and musician since 1987. MacLeod received his D.E.C. in Fine Arts at John Abbott College and his BFA with a specialization in printmaking from Concordia University.
In 2007 he will attend the digital photo residency SAGAMIE to produce his next series of life size photos titled 'Gods and Goddesses/Contemporary Archetypes'. In 2006 he was awarded a Main Film production grant for his documentary 'After the war with Hannelore' which was filmed about a 'war child' in post war Berlin.
He has won awards to attend the Pouch Cove Residency in Newfoundland, The Banff Centre for the Arts, The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, Le Symposium de la Nouvelle Peinture at Baie Saint Paul, La Sociedad Mexicana de Artes Plasticas in Mexico City to study muralism, The Uffizi Print and Drawing room in Florence to study master drawings and prints and the Atelier Realization Graphic de Quebec. His experiences in these residencies and cultures gave him the opportunity to witness great works of art and refine his own artistic and lyrical skills. He actively promotes culture, education and activism, and has been involved in projects involving fund-raising for the homeless, Dr. Jane Goodall's work with Chimpanzee's, food banks, AIDS hospices, hospitals, Amnesty International, orphanages, here in Canada and in the developing world. He presently runs a consultation and lecture service whose design is to better inform the artist and public about the arts.
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Scott was recently awarded an A Grant from the Conseil des arts et des lettres from his multimedia project The Sacred Feminine and Masculine which illustrates the cycle of life. His other projects are The Lachine Canal Past and Present, a series of paintings and drawings on Montreal's Lachine Canal, which was sponsored by McAuslan Brewery, Ancestral Homes an exhibition dealing with the Viking period and his Nordic heritage, this research was possible because of The William Blair Bruce European Fine Art Travel Scholarship. The work was exhibited in Chicago at The Swedish American Museum and in Seattle at the Nordic Heritage Museum. His earlier projects have dealt with Grosse Isle and the Irish Famine of 1847, the decimation of the plains buffalo, homelessness, inner city poverty and prostitution.
His work are in the following collections, The National Gallery in Ottawa, Museo de la Estampe in Mexico City, The Muse
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