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| | ARTIST NAME: | Elliott, Max | | ACCESSION NUMBER: | 1994.079.001 | | TITLE: | PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST IN HER STUDIO | | DATE: | 1993 | | CATEGORY: | Painting | | MEDIUM: | oil, gesso | | SUPPORT: | linen | | DIMENSIONS: | Actual: 61.3 x 61.1 cm (24 1/8 x 24 1/16 in.)
Frame: 75.7 x 75.7 x 5.4 cm (25 x 24 15/16 x 1 15/16 in.) | | COLLECTION: | Alberta Foundation for the Arts |
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| | OTHER HOLDINGS: | Elliott, Max | | ARTIST BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Max Elliott is a multi-disciplinary artist living in Banff, Alberta. Over her wide-ranging career, she has worked as a painter, book illustrator, curator, and parks interpreter. She graduated from ACAD in Calgary in 1988, majoring in Drawing, and from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD), Halifax, with a BFA in Fine Art in 1991. These studies included print-making, drawing, painting, as well as art history. She subsequently took a Mountain Parks Heritage Interpretation Association course in 2001. Since moving to the Banff area, she has created drawings, paintings, mixed-media collages, prints, mosaics, ceramic pieces, and poetry, all reflecting her love of an ever-changing mountain environment.
In 2010, she held an exhibition in Banff, A is for Alpine, at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies. This comprised 26 mixed-media illustrations, using painting and collage, one for each letter of the alphabet. The illustrations celebrated activities, wildlife and scenic attractions in the Canadian Rockies. They were produced to illustrate a poem introducing mountain concepts to very early readers, in a book published by Summerthought Publishing, Canadian Rockies ABC (2010, 2014). The work was short-listed for multiple book awards.
Max has had solo exhibitions at ACAD and at NSCAD, at the Banff Public Library and, at the Whyte Museum, a show entitled Glacier-fed. Her work has also been included in group shows at Num Ti Jah Lodge, on Bow Lake, Alberta; at Mount Royal College and at the Muttart Public Art Gallery, Calgary; and at the Whyte Museum, at Wild Elements Gallery and at Old Crag Cabin, Banff.
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