biography
Born in England, Gillian Armitage was educated in the UK and the USA. She emigrated to Canada with her husband, John, in 1974
1977-79 Western Washington University; Bellingham, Washington, USA.
Fulfilled all Art Dept. BFA requirements - major concentrations: printmaking &
drawing
1958-63 Kingston-upon-Hull College of Art; Yorkshire, England.
General fine art studies - concentrations: illustration, drawing and fabric design
2003-13 Malaspina Printmakers, Vancouver, BC; stone lithography
1998 Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design (University), Vancouver, BC: relief printing &
lithography & advanced printmaking
1985 Kwantlen College (University), Surrey, BC; intaglio & lithography
1965-67 Scarborough College of Art, England; painting, drawing, colour & design
2005-08 President, Malaspina Printmakers; Vancouver, BC
2006 Invited Speaker: Nagasaki Peace Museum, Nagasaki, Japan
Invited Speaker: Inocho Paper Museum; Kochi, Japan
Awarded Canada Council Travel Grant
1994-2000 President, Malaspina Printmakers Educational Society, Vancouver,
1983-91 Director and Founding Member of Northwest Print Council (PAN); Portland,
Oregon, USA
1990 Artist-in-Residence, Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design; Vancouver, BC
1987 Juror, Oregon Arts Commission 25th Anniversary Exhibition,
Portland State University, Portland, USA
1986 Panel Chair & Co-organizer, ‘National Print Symposium’; Vancouver, BC
1985 Invited Speaker/Panelist, “New Horizons: East meets West Printmaking
Conference” Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon,
1982-84 President, Malaspina Printmakers, Vancouver, BC
1981 Awarded a Canada Council Project Cost Grant
Awarded a Canada Council Travel Grant
WORLD PRINT THREE: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
WESTERN FRONT: Review by Susan Porter, Nov 6th 1979
SIX AT THE CROWN: review by Elizabeth Godley, Vancouver Sun, April 1987
INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF GRAPHIC ART: International Center of Graphic Arts, Ljublijana
12 MIEDZYNARODOWE BIENNALE GRAFIKI: Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych Krakow, Poland
PRINTMAKING TODAY: a quarterly journal of contemporary international graphic art published in London, UK. 1997
MEDICINE HAT PRINT SHOW: juried by Roger Boulet, 1988
A/P: PAN: Print Artists Northwest: Portland Oregon. Review by Mery Lynn McCorkle
SELF-CENTRED: EXPLORATIONS OF THE SELF IN PORTRAITURE, Langley Museum & National Exhibition Centre, review by Roger Boulet, 2004
CHOP, Malaspina Printmakers A review of Giotto Revisited by Marie Price 2005
BIMPE IV, 2006
BIMPE V, 2008
BIMPE VI, 2010
THE PERFECT ART FORM FOR MILLENNIALS: Lara Zarum, Globe & Mail, Toronto, Canada
7 April 2016
LAYERS: PRINT & BEYOND, Burnaby Art Gallery, review by Susan Gransby, 2015
The Canadian Art Bank ~ The Canadian Department of External Affairs ~ The BC Art Collection ~ The Vivian & Gordon Gilkey Center for Graphic Arts, Portland Art Museum ~ The BC Cancer Clinic
The Burnaby Art Gallery Permanent Collection ~ The Heidi Van Doren Betz Collection, San Francisco
The Malaspina Printmakers’ Archives at Burnaby Art Gallery & Simon Fraser University
IBM ~ National Cash Register ~ Bank of the Philippines ~ First City Financial Bank
Toronto Dominion Bank ~ Western Pacific Bank ~ BC Automobile Association (BCAA)
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