Thursday Artist Talk series at the Surrey Art Gallery, join Peter Busby for an illustrated talk on Akroyd’s dramatic journey
Date/Time: Nov 5 2015, 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Surrey, Surrey Art Gallery
Jack Akroyd may not be a household name, but a new book by Vancouver author Peter Busby called The Life and Art of Jack Akroyd wants to change that. On Thursday, November 5 at 7:30pm as part of the Thursday Artist Talk series at the Surrey Art Gallery, join Peter Busby for an illustrated talk on Akroyd’s dramatic journey and how he filtered his experiences into art.
Jack Akroyd arrived in BC from his native England in 1953 and painted landscapes as well as humorous depictions of daily life. He was a member of a group of artists in Vancouver in the early 1960s that included sculptors Paul Huba, Elek Imredy, and David Marshall, photographer Jack Dale, and painters George Fertig and Frank Molnar. He was given a solo exhibition at Vancouver Art Gallery in 1975 and several exhibitions at Burnaby Art Gallery—most recently, a major retrospective in July 2015. Akroyd died at 75 in 1996, relatively unknown except for those enthusiasts as far away as Japan who collected over 500 of his pieces.
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