User:Mammle2/David Hannan (artist)
David Hannan | |
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| Born | 1971 Ottawa, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Education | Ontario College of Art |
| Known for | Painting, sculpting, film making, mixed media arts |
David Hannan (born 1971) is a Métis Canadian who is a painter, sculptor, filmmaker, and a mixed media artist and currently lives in Toronto, Canada.[1] He graduated from the Ontario College of Art with a diploma in 1995.[1][2] His works have been based around his cultural identity with themes from the history of indigenous rights, his personal views and critique on such issues, and controversial issues on his people.
Early Life
Hannan was born on the year 1971 in Ottawa, Ontario to a mother with Miꞌkmaq and Algonquin ancestry and to a non-native father.[1] Due to his father's work at a survey company, he often stayed with his grandmother for months intermittently who encouraged his interest in art and provided him the supplies and drawing materials.[1] In eighth grade his family moved to Thailand for his father's work for three years where he learned how to speak Thai in the first six months. Hannan stayed in Bangkok and attended an international school there where he met and befriended Robert Gutowski, an art teacher at his school.[1] In 1988 Hannan then returned to Ottawa and went to high school there at the Canterbury High School for the Arts and graduated in 1991 he then later moved to Toronto to attend the Ontario College of Art where he received numerous awards, scholarships, and his diploma in 1995. [1][2]
Career
Shortly after receiving his degree, Hannan became a painter and created images with the style of a collage making use of family photos in his work. His early work in this style suggested one of two themes, two of his works, Camping Stories and At the Cottage, suggest a more happy and relaxing time, two other images on the other hand, Broken Man and Untitled (Crossfire), represent times of hardship.[1] Most of Hannan's paintings are multi-media works incorporate his Métis background by containing pieces of melton cloth, a material with significant ties to the first contact between Europeans and First Nations peoples.[1][3]
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References
- ^ a b c d e f g h Everett, Deborah, 1951- (2008). Encyclopedia of Native American artists. Zorn, Elayne. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-08061-6. OCLC 328280157.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ a b "David Hannan | www.g101.ca". g101.ca. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
- ^ "TMC Past Exhibitions". Textile Museum of Canada. Retrieved 2020-02-18.