Joan Thornborrow Steacy - Camosun...
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Joan Thornborrow Steacy is a visual artist who has worked in a variety of disciplines, including sculpture, traditional illustration, and digital imaging. She grew up in southern Ontario, and is a graduate of Sheridan College, The Ontario College of Art & Design, and The University of Victoria. She teaches life drawing, and is currently working on an autobio-graphic novel. Joan Thornborrow Steacy •Illustrator •Sculptor •Teacher •Writer
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Joan Thornborrow Steacy is a visual artist who has worked in a variety of disciplines, including sculpture, traditional illustration, and digital imaging. She grew up in southern Ontario, and is a graduate of Sheridan College, The Ontario College of Art & Design, and The University of Victoria. She teaches life drawing, and is currently working on an autobio-graphic novel.
Joan Thornborrow Steacy
•Illustrator •Sculptor •Teacher •Writer
AURORA BOREALIS
The life of “Junky Jack” Thornborrow: 1906-2006
A century of hardship, laughter, and recycling
EDUCATION1975 Sheridan College - Oakville, Ontario Graduated from one year Art Fundamentals Program1979 Ontario College of Art and Design - Toronto, Ontario Graduated from Fine Arts/General Studies Program - studied Art History, Art & Perception, Photo-Electric Arts, Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture1979-80 University of Toronto - Center for Culture and Technology Postgraduate studies with Eric McLuhan 1997-2001 Attended numerous stone-carving and sculpting symposia in British Columbia and Washington State2002 University of Victoria - Victoria, British Columbia Graduated with a Humanities Diploma, studied Art Education, Art History, Film Studies, Philosophy, and Japanese
WORK EXPERIENCE1976-2009 Toronto, Ontario, Victoria, British Columbia - caricaturist1980 Parks and Recreation Department - Toronto, Ontario Created and taught art programs for children1981 General Brock High School - Burlington, Ontario Created and taught a three-day workshop and slide presentation on the subject of Art & Perception 1981-5 Toronto, Ontario - Produced numerous sculptural illustrations for various clients on a freelance basis, including Star Week magazine, Vortex Comics, Billboard magazine, and The Shaw Festival1985-7 Beach Arts Center - Toronto, Ontario Organized and taught the Visual Arts Program for children and teens, curriculum included painting, sculpting, animation, and cartooning. Designed and coordinated sets and prop construction for student productions 1987-2009 Victoria, British Columbia Assisted illustrator Ken Steacy in production of numerous comic books and children’sbooksinbothtraditionalanddigitalmediaforclientsincluding Lucasfilm,Disney,Marvel,andTelusWorldofScienceEdmonton Guest lectured on the subject of sculptural illustration to the Island lllustrators Society, and worked on animated logo for CHEK-6 TV station2003-5 Created and taught Life Drawing For Beginners program at Xchanges Gallery 2005-6 WroteandillustratedstorybooktitledSo,That’sThat!2006-9 Taught Life Drawing, Visual Storytelling, and Caricature at Island Blue2009 PacificFestivaloftheBook-StorybookProductionAsAuthor/Illustrator, slide presentation and lecture Currently writing and illustrating autobio-graphic novel
VOLUNTEER WORK1988-93 InvolvedinMargaretJenkinsElementarySchool’sartenhancement program, including production of a number of murals Created and presented slide shows and workshops for students in kindergarten to middle school on the subject of Art & Perception1990-93 Member,VancouverIslandSculptor’sGuild-chairedadvertisingcommittee1995-2003 Presenter for the Gallery in the Schools Program through the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria2001 Created and presented slide show on historical and contemporary sculpture to Washington State Stone Carvers Symposium2000-04 Oak Bay High Community Theatre Group - designed and constructed working life-sized puppets for production of Little Shop of Horrors, co-ordinated set painting for numerous other productions2007-08 PacificFestivaloftheBook-Victoria,BritishColumbia Co-ordinated and hung show of The Book As Art Object
GROUP SHOWS • 1994 Bastion Square, Island Illustrators show - Victoria, British Columbia •1995MaltwoodGallery,SiteSpecificshow-UniversityofVictoria • 1996-97 Bamberton Cement Plant Gallery - Bamberton, British Columbia • 1997 Vancouver Holocaust Education Center - Primo Levi exhibition • 1998 Maritime Museum Gallery, Sculptors Guild - Victoria, British Columbia • 1999 Sooke Fine Arts ‘99 show - Sooke, British Columbia • 2001 University of Victoria Fine Arts Building - Red Tide Alert show • 2004 Arts Council Gallery Victoria, Foreign Exchange Show • 2006 Victoria International Arts Symposium - Victoria, British Columbia •2007PacificFestivaloftheBook-Victoria,BritishColumbia SOLO SHOWS • 2003 Theatre Aquarius, Hamilton, Ontario - public sculpture installation • 2005 The Green Room, Xchanges Gallery, Victoria BC - life drawings • 2006 The Village Gallery, Waterdown Ontario - original illustrations SKILLS Sculpting, Stone Carving, Drawing, Painting, Cartooning, Caricature, Sequential Narrative, Digital Colouring
Joan Thornborrow
SteacyAOCA • HUMA.DIP.
3826 Merriman DriveVictoria, British Columbia
Canada V8P 2S9TEL: (250) 595-0961CEL: (250) [email protected]
