Gary Blundell

Gary Blundell was born in central London, England and lived there for a few years until his family moved to Ottawa, Ontario. He was the lead singer in a psycho-billy band and later a swing band in the Ottawa area and was involved in organizing artist run center exhibitions and studio spaces in Ottawa and Toronto. He completed a BSc degree in Geotechnical Earth Sciences (now called Geological Engineering) at the University of Waterloo and became head of the research department at the Canadian Wildlife Federation in the later 1980’s and early 1990’s. The subject of his conceptual landscape painting is both deep geological time and the human connections to resource extraction. During a 2011 arts residency in Yorkshire, England, his work Bituminous Illuminations, addressed the impact of coal mining on landscape and people. This work has been widely exhibited including one installation in the Victorian coal mining buildings that are now part of the National Coal Mining Museum for England. He lives in a log cabin built in 1898 by bootleggers in a woodsy part of central Ontario, an hour north of Peterborough.

Title: Moss Foot

Date: 2019

Medium: mixed media on paper

Accession no: 2023.01

Gift of the artist