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)