celia jacqueline king
Education:
BFA, Interdisciplinary Fine Art
Diploma of Fine Art, ECU
Bio
celia jacqueline king is an interdisciplinary artist, international award-winning published author, curator and producer. Her print artists books, sculptural books and video book media have been exhibited in the EU, Japan, Canada and the USA. Her work has been published by Chronicle Books (San Francisco) and Raincoast Books (Vancouver) and she has appeared with the CBC, the Vancouver International Writers' Festival and the Knowledge Network.
celia has received awards from the B.C. Book Prizes, the Bologna Book Fair and the Critici in Erba. She has curated and produced group exhibitions in Vancouver in artists' book media, visual and installation arts, media and performance, with the A440Hz Project, New Forms Festival, Word on the Street and ECU. An Honours Graduate of ECU in Interdisciplinary Fine Art and an Emily Award winner (2000), she has piloted new curriculum at ECU in Book Media, Illustration, Photography and Communication Design.
Research Interests
celia's professional and artistic practices engage public facilitation in community planning for civic urban development, from Haida Gwaii to Halifax, with The Co-Design Group, Social Art of Architecture, research and implementation of restorative ecologies in mature forests for red-listed rare species and establishing new artistic practices for interdisciplinary arts, with support from Canada Council for the Arts, in media, sound, music compositions, instrumentation and visual arts in physics and earth sciences.