| ARTIST BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Noni Boyle is an artist, teacher and arts administrator who was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta. Boyle earned her MFA in drawing from the University of Alberta in 2003. She has also studied visual arts at Concordia University, where she earned a BFA (1981), and printmaking through the University of Calgary’s Continuing Studies Department. She has completed workshops at Red Deer College and the Alberta College of Art and Design in printmaking and jewellery. In 2008, she attended a Ted Harrison Artist Retreat in Yukon. Boyle has worked for the City of Calgary in their Arts and Culture Section, at the North Mount Pleasant Arts Centre and at the Village Square Arts Centre. She has taught at the University of Alberta, Mount Royal College, Red Deer College and the University of Calgary. Since 2006, Boyle has been an Associate Professor in Fine Arts at Algoma University in Sault Saint Marie, Ontario.
Boyle is known for the range of techniques she utilizes in her body of work, which includes large- and small-scale works in printmaking, drawing, installation, resin, woodburning and assemblage. Her art deals with themes of identity, belonging and spirituality. She has participated in solo and group exhibitions around Alberta and in Sault Saint Marie, Ontario, and is represented in public and corporate collections, including the Fairmont Canadian Pacific Hotels collection. Boyle has curated several exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Algoma and the Whitespace Gallery.
Compiled 2014 |