Janice Gurney

Janice Gurney is a Canadian contemporary artist born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. In 1986, Janice Gurney joined the advisory board of the Embassy Cultural House. Her strong ties to London involved in 1987, participation in the YYZ "World Tour" exhibition with 15 artists including artist/partner Andy Patton. In 1988, Janice and Andy, through an Ontario Arts Council artist in residence grant, awarded to the ECH, spent one month in London and had a solo exhibit in the spring of 1989. During this period Andy and Janice met with many London artists, writers and curators, including Greg Curnoe, David Merritt and curator Judith Rodger.
 
She graduated from the University of Manitoba in 1973 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours degree and later received a Master of Visual Studies degree from University of Toronto in 2007 with a collaborative degree in Book History and Print Culture.  She went on to get a PhD in Art and Visual Culture at Western University in 2012.

Gurney's work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions across Canada. Notable collections which have featured her art include: the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, and Museum London. In her work, Gurney explores abstract concepts of human connection, meditation, and isolation using post-modernist art, collage, and visual meditation as methods of inspiration.

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