Morag Webster-Lesarge

19 Benson Avenue

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

M6G 4C6

Cel 416-801-9525

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Featured Artist - Bravo TV’s Star Portraits, November 2010

Competition Winner - Portrait of Theo Fleury, NHL Hockey Player

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2013 Skies over Kenya, Hittite Gallery, Yorkville, Toronto, Ontario

2011​ Back to the Sea, Wychwood Community Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

2009​ Pathos, Wychwood Arts Barns, Toronto, Ontario

2005​ Community, Landon Library, London, Ontario

2003 Cambrian Shield, ​Bliss Gallery, Port Franks, Ontario

2002​ Rock Cuts, The Arts Project, London, Ontario

JURIED EXHIBITIONS:

2010 Jass London, Museum London, London, Ontario

2009Propeller Gallery, Unabridged, Unabashed and Unbastardized, Toronto

2008Woodstock Art Gallery, Visual Elements, Ontario

2007 Museum London, Artmart, Ontario

2007Fringe, London, Ontario

2005Canadian Portrait Academy, London, Ontario

2004The Arts Project,The Coves Project, London, Ontario

2003Museum London, ArtMart, Ontario

2002Museum London, ArtMart, Ontario

2002Visual Fringe, London, Ontario

2002Field Study, Art works in the Multiple, Gee long, Australia

2001Catalyst Arts, From Ritual to Romance, Belfast Ireland

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2009Gallery 1313, Fantasy Fashion, Toronto, Ontario

2008Thames River Revisited, London, Ontario

2006Cube Gallery, Art Against War, Ottawa, Ontario

2005Gallery 96, Members Show, Stratford, Ontario

2005Guildhouse Gallery, lalalandscapes, London, Ontario

2004Gallery 96, Members Show, Stratford, Ontario

2004Bliss Gallery, Pt. Franks, Ontario

2003Gallery 101, Art vs. War, Ottawa, Ontario

2003Gallery 96, Members Show, Gallery 96, Stratford, Ontario

2003Forest City Gallery, 30 Something, London, Ontario

2002The Arts Project, Simple Pleasures, London, Ontario

2002 Bliss Gallery, Pt. Franks, Ontario

COLLECTIONS AND ACQUISITIONS:

Corporate - Erie Thames Power, Sudbury General Hospital, Town of Elliot Lake, Ontario College of Art

Private - Across Ontario and the United Kingdom

AWARDS:

London Arts Council Grant, London, 2007

Imadon, Expressions in Chalk Festival, Best Religious Painting 2006, 2007 and Peoples Choice Award, 2007, 2008, London

Brickenden Award, Best Costumes, London, 2004

Brickenden Award, Outstanding Costumes, London, 2007 and 2008

WORK / EXPERIENCE:

- Current: Working in film and TV as a set dresser, scenic painter and props builder

- Board Member, WBCA, Toronto, Ontario

- Studio/Gallery: Covent Garden Market, London, Ontario

- Project Manager, Open Air lll & Art Architecture, McIntosh Gallery

- Fund-raising Coordinator, “Spring Click Gala”, Forest City Gallery, London

- Facilitator, “Wide World Collective”, Forest City Gallery, London, Ontario

- Stage Workshops, TheatreWORKS 05’& 06’, London, Ontario

- Juror Deer Trail Studio Tour, Elliot Lake and District, Ontario

- Facilitator/Curator for Children’s Show Ground Zero, Forest City Gallery, London

- Board Member (past) The Arts Project, London, Ontario

- Art Gallery Co-ordinator, International Children’s Festival 96', Sudbury

- Sudbury Theatre Centre, Sudbury

- Art Committee, Fringe Nord Festival 95', Sudbury

- Facilitated/curated exhibitions for artists, SCARF, Attic Shop, Sudbury

- Past President, Burlington Fine Arts Guild, Burlington, Ontario

- Representative Member, Burlington Arts Council, Burlington, Ontario

- Summer School Coordinator and Instructor, City of Elliot Lake

- Coordinator and Founding Member, Elliot Lake Arts Council

PRESS:

December 2007, ArtScape, Issue twenty three

November 2007, ArtScape, Issue twenty two

June 23 2005 Scene Magazine, London, Ontario

June 1 2005 London Free Press, London, Ontario

August 7 2004, The Observer, Sarnia, Ontario

July 17 2003, The Observer, Sarnia, Ontario

June 08 2003, The London Free Press, London, Ontario

July/August 2002, The Reporter, London, Ontario

CATALOGUES:

2003 Friends of The Coves, London, Ontario

2002 Field Study, Geelong, Australia

2001 McIntosh Gallery, Open Air, London, Ontario

EDUCATION AND TRAINING:

Small Business Centre, London, Ontario

Props Workshops, Stratford Theatre, Ontario

University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario

Industrial Centre for Women, Sudbury, Ontario

Sault College of Applied Arts & Technology, Elliot Lake, Ontario

Fine Arts & Graphics, Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Ontario

Hereford College of Art, Hereford, England

Portrait workshops; Yugi Wang, Juan Martinez and Daniel Green

ASSOCIATIONS PAST & PRESENT:

Visual ArtTheatre

CARFACIATSE 828

Canadian Portrait Artist SocietyTheatre Direct

Portrait Society of CanadaRandolph Academy of the Performing Arts

Portrait Society of AmericaFountainhead Theatre

Gallery 96, Stratford The Grand Theatre

Forest City GalleryPort Stanley Festival Theatre

Burlington Fine Arts GuildThe Sudbury Theatre Centre

SCARF, Sudbury Centre ArtsTheatre Nemisis

LaLa Land Studios Ausable Theatre

Street Painting Society Ptarmigan Players

Film: IATSE 873, King ( TV show), Rewind ( pilot Tv show), Hannibal ( TV show), Lucky 7 (pilot TV show), Warehouse 13 ( TV show), Reign ( TV show)