"Kinship Within" multimedia on tissue, elaborate Iberian symbols over a heavily pregnant form. Roberta Pyx Sutherland's education includes a BFA from the University of Victoria, study at Emily Carr College of Art and Design, the University of Sheffield UK, Ikebana Ohara School, and residencies at the Banff Centre. Her teachers and mentors include Jack Wise, Roy Kiyooka, Don Jarvis and Jack Shadbolt. Since 1982, the artist has exhibited widely in Canada, Mexico, Europe and the US. The Canada Council for the Arts and Seagrams Art Collection hold her works. For the Metchosin International Summer School of the Arts, she mentored an Artist in Residence program. She is one of 50 artists featured in Canada’s Raincoast at Risk: Art for an Oil-Free Coast. Roberta Pyx Sutherland is a Canadian artist based on Hornby Island. From her first solo exhibition at the Victoria Art Gallery in the 1980’s her work has focused on the relationships of cosmic patterning, divine intelligence, the environment and the interconnectivity of all life forms. A prolific artist, Sutherland uses a wide range of media in her work including paints, pigments, natural dyes and inks, photography and handmade papers. She also creates site-specific installations, the most well-known an Andy Warhol tribute for the Hornby Island Arts Council, one of the world’s largest Tomato Soup Cans. Most recently Sutherland created a Lenten installation for the Chapel Gallery of Victoria’s St. Matthias Anglican Church.
ROBERTA SUTHERLANDUNTITLED - SPANISH SERIESMIXED MEDIA ON PAPER; UNSIGNED11" x 14.75" - 27.9 x 37.5 cm.; 12.25" x 16.25" - 31.1 x 41.3 cm.Exhibited:Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BCNote:ROBERTA SUTHERLANDRoberta Pyx Sutherland was born and raised in Vancouver, and studied at the Vancouver School of Arts in the early 1960s. Her early inspirations included Gordon Smith, Jack Shadbolt and Toni Onley, whom she watched create the huge abstract mural for the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. After working on a CUSO project in Africa, and travelling through India, she returned to Canada and enrolled in the art program at the University of Victoria, where she was mentored by Jack Wise in the art of calligraphy. Sutherland continued her studies in Hawaii, California and Japan, and trained as a printmaker in England. She returned home to complete a residency at the Banff School of the Arts, while Tak Tanabe was head of the program. Since 1982, Sutherland has exhibited widely in Canada, Mexico, Europe and the US., with more than 25 solo exhibitions in both public and commercial galleries, and well in excess of 35 group exhibitions. In 1987, Sutherland had a solo exhibition entitled Earth Birthing at the Art Gallery of Victoria. Her work is found in prominent private and public collections, including The Canada Council for the Arts and the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. She is one of 50 artists featured in the publication Canada's Raincoast at Risk: Art for an Oil-Free Coast. Sutherland has been living on Hornby Island, British Columbia since 1993. Selected Corporate, Private and Public CollectionsArt Gallery of Greater Victoria, BCBibliothèque de Genève, SwitzerlandCanada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, OntarioClaridge Collection, Montreal, QuebecEric Martin Institute, Victoria, BCKamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BCLions Gates Hospital, North Vancouver, BCRio Alto Explorations, Calgary, AlbertaVernon Art Gallery, Vernon, BCSelected Solo Exhibitions2013Game Plans, Martin Batchelor Gallery, Victoria, BC2012Circles des Amis, Gallerie Editart, Geneva, Switzerland2011Still Spots, Arts Council Gallery, Hornby Island, BC2010James Bay Art Walk, Huntington Studio, Victoria, BC2009New Earth Paintings, Martin Batchelor Gallery, Victoria , BCNew Work, Exhibition Hall, Hornby Island, BC2008As Above So Below, MacPherson Theatre,Victoria, BC 2007Earth Diaries, Victoria Art Gallery, Mansion Gallery, Victoria, BC2006Climate of Change, New West Gallery, Sidney, BC Terre Memoire III, Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo, BC2005New Work, Martin Batchelor Gallery,Victoria, BC2004nvisible Islands, Old Schoolhouse Gallery, Qualicum Beach, BC2003New Work, Martin Batchelor Gallery, Victoria, BC2002 Terre Memoire, Editart Gallery, Geneva, SwitzerlandTerre Memoire II, Victoria Art Gallery Mansion, Victoria, BC1998View from the Interior, Gallery of the South Okanagan, Penticton, BC1997 The Introspective Landscape, Fran Willis Gallery, Victoria, BC1996The Patterned Women, Grand Forks Art Gallery, Grand Forks, BC1995 Full Moon with Frost, Vernon Art Gallery, Vernon, BC1994 In the Mind's Eye, National Exhibition Centre, Castlegar, BC1993Fragile ExistenceII, Ferry Building, West Vancouver, BC1992Fragile Existence, Prince George Art Gallery, Prince George, BC1991Fragile Existence, XChanges Gallery, Victoria, BC1990 Drawing From Prehistory, Vernon Art Gallery, Vernon, BCFragile Existence, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC1989Paperworks 1979 ‑89, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, BC1988Drawing from Prehistory, X‑Changes Gallery, Victoria, BC1987Earth Birthing, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC1986 Closer to Home, Fran Willis North Park Gallery, Victoria, BC 1985Earth Watch, Winchester Gallery, Victoria, BC.1982 Press Related Drawings, XChanges Gallery, Victoria, BCSelected Group Exhibitions2015Double Take, Massey Gallery, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, BC2014Parallel Universes, Gallerie Editart, Geneva, Switzerland2013Difference & Repetition, Slide Room Gallery, Victoria, BC Cadaques Mini-Print travelling exhibition, Barcelona Spain2012Contemporary Conversations, Universal Library Gallery, Maglie, Italy2011Three from Hornby, CAC. Gallery, Bowen Island, BC 2010Under 8, Sopa Fine Arts, Kelowna, BC 2009Selected Circle, Editart Gallery, Geneva Switzerland Women Artists of B.C., C.A.G.V. Gallery, Victoria BC 2007Stillness, Martin Batchelor Gallery, Victoria, BC2004Contemporary Explorations, Malaspina College Art Gallery, Nanaimo, BC2003Gallerie Artists, Editart, Geneva, Switzerland2002Alumni, Maltwood Museum, University of Victoria, BC2001Artropolis, CBC Studios, Vancouver, BCEditart Circle, Editart Gallery, Geneva Switzerland2000Barbie Doesn't Live Here Anymore, BC Craft House, Vancouver, BCContemporary Pastels, Seymour Art Gallery, North Vancouver1999North Okanagan Juried Show, Vernon Art Gallery, Vernon, BC1996Gallerie Artists, Gallerie Editart, Geneva, Switzerland1995Local Perspectives, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BCDefining Feminism, Headbones Gallery, Vernon, BC1994Caeremonia, Open Space, Victoria, BC (3 person show)1993Carte Blanche, Gallerie Editart, Geneva, Switzerland1992Earth Day, Bushlen‑Mowat Gallery, Vancouver, BC1991Tsitika Valley, Western Canada Wilderness Committee (provincial tour)1990Celebrating Victoria Artists, Victoria Art Gallery1989Gallerie Artists, Gallerie Editart, Geneva, Switzerland1988Grace Gallery, Vancouver (2 person exhibition)1987Bus Art Project, BCTransit Authority, Victoria, BC1986Art in Victoria 1960 - 86, Art Gallery of Victoria, BCArtists for Expo 86, Robson Media Centre, Vancouver, BCB.C. Festival Juried Show, Prince Rupert, BC1985Women Artists of B.C. 1885 - 1995, (provincial tour)1984International Women's Day Exposition, United Nations, Geneva, SwitzerlandFive Artists Five Countries, Gallerie Editart, Geneva, Switzerland1983Vancouver Island Invitational, (3 person) Art Gallery of Victoria, BCHomage to Miro, International Exhibition, Gallerie Editart, Geneva, Switzerland1982Helen Pitt Awards Exhibition, Robson Square Media Centre Selected Linksrobertapyxsutherland.com
ROBERTA SUTHERLANDUNTITLED - SPANISH SERIESMIXED MEDIA ON PAPER; UNSIGNED11" x 14.75" - 27.9 x 37.5 cm.; 12.25" x 16.25" - 31.1 x 41.3 cm.Exhibited:Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BCEstimate: $300-400
