Reference: Audrey Mabee is an alumna of The Alberta College of Art and Design (now Alberta University of the Arts). Audrey took Saturday-morning art classes as a child there, became the college's first Alumni President, served as a member of the Board of Governors and finally served as the Acting President in 1998 - 1999. She has since enjoyed a distinguished career as both an artist and an advocate for the visual arts.

Active and interested in her community, Audrey has been a member of numerous boards, juries and foundations and was an art teacher throughout her career. She has exhibited in galleries since the late 80's, with representation in Calgary, Vancouver, San Francisco, Hawaii, Edmonton and Saskatoon. Her paintings have been exhibited across Canada and internationally and are held in numerous public, corporate, and private collections. Significant commissions for private and commercial corporations include Starbucks, A & W, the Calgary Foundation and the Alberta Children's Hospital.

As a contemporary Canadian painter whose work celebrates the joy, curiosity, and quiet complexities of everyday life, Audrey Mabee works primarily in oil creating whimsical figurative paintings that balance playful storytelling with thoughtful reflection. Drawing upon decades of artistic exploration, her work transforms ordinary moments into imaginative narratives, inviting viewers to discover subtle layers of meaning, humour, and emotion within each composition.

listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, see website at Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN]

Reference: for more biographical information and examples of work see artist's website at billmackgallery.com

Reference: listed on alberta.emuseum.com

Reference: Allan Harding Mackay was born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Since graduating from the Nova Scotia College of Art in 1967, he has been a practicing studio artist in various media encompassing portrait, landscape, figurative, and video works. MacKay has also accumulated extensive credentials as a gallery director, curator, and arts administrator, serving as visiting artist, resident artist, and lecturer at several Canadian universities, art colleges, public galleries, and national conferences including the Alberta College of Art + Design (now Alberta University of the Arts) and The Banff Centre. In 2000, MacKay co-curated the Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art at both the Illingworth Kerr Gallery and what was then the Art Gallery of Calgary (now Contemporary Calgary). In 2008, he was inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy (RCA) and received a Kitchener Waterloo Visual Arts Award, having been awarded numerous artist grants by the Canada Council, Ontario Arts Council, and Alberta Foundation for the Arts.

MacKay's solo and group exhibition history is extensive, both nationally and internationally. His work resides in public collections including the Canada Council Art Bank, National Gallery of Canada, Canadian War Museum, Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Art Gallery of Alberta, University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, and Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland. Additional holdings span corporate and private collections across Canada, the United States, Australia, the UK, New Zealand, Bermuda, China, and Switzerland.Toronto.

for more biographical information and examples of work see artist's website at allanhardingmackay.ca

see Source / Derivations: Allan Harding MacKay, by R.Stacey, Art Gallery of Windsor, 1998

biography and other examples in Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art 1998, by C.Crowston/C.Mastin, pg.29, E.A.G. and Glenbow Museum, 1998

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Reference: see Walter May, Recent Sculpture, by M.Laviolette, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, 1985; Walter May, by E. Kidd, Edmonton Art Gallery, 1990

Reference: see Doris McCarthy Feast of Incarnation Paintings 1929-1989, by W.Moore, the Gallery/Stratford, 1991; Celebrating Life, the Art of Doris McCarthy, by W.Moore, McMichael Collection, 1999; biography and other examples in A.G.O., by the A.G.O., pg.264; MacDonald,Vol.4, pg. 952; Westbridge,Vol.3, pg.21; exhibition list in R.C.A.A., pg.249 and M.M.F.A., pg.234 by E.McMann; A Fool in Paradise, 1990 and The Good Wine, by D.McCarthy, MacFarlane Walter and Ross, 1991 for autobiography; McCarthy was the first woman President of the Ontario Society of Artists and has received many awards and honours; see the website at www.dorismccarthy.com; listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website

Reference: Irene McCaugherty was a self-taught artist, writer, and poet. Her folk-art paintings explore the people and cultural narrative of southern Alberta’s pioneer days in the later part of the 19th and early 20th century. She recorded the daily happenings of life in early Alberta with humour and colour, and invited viewers to enter her world of auction sales, musical rides, road building, small town life, and ranching. McCaugherty often painted in an unusual dimension, long and narrow. That rectangular shape reflected the view she had out the window of her pick-up truck, as she drove around southern Alberta to capture the stories of the people and the places she called home. Her watercolours do not conform to traditional one-point perspective, and she found a voice that was uniquely hers, capturing the imagined past and invented history of life on the prairie. She created more than 1,000 paintings before her death in 1996, many of which have been donated by her family to the Lethbridge College Campus where they are on display in the Founders’ Square Space. For many years, McCaugherty wrote a newspaper column for the Lethbridge Herald called Diary of a Farmer’s Wife about cowboy life on her ranch in the Porcupine Hills of Alberta. She also self-published three books and one recording of her stories, poetry, and paintings. McCaugherty received an Alberta Achievement award in 1992, and an Honourary Doctor of Law degree from the University of Lethbridge in 1995, for her work preserving the history of Southern Alberta. Her art can be found at the Galt Museum and Archives in Lethbridge, the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, and the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa.

see Irene McCaugherty, Watercolours, published by the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, 1983; Yesterday's Memories, by I.McCaugherty, pub. By the artist, 1988; A Voice in Time, by I.McCaugherty, 1990; The Ladders We Climb, by I.McCaugherty, pub. By the artist, 1994; By a Lady, Celebrating Three Centuries of Art by Canadian Women, by M.Tippett, Penguin Group, 1992; Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.3, pg.21, Westbridge Pub., 2001

Reference: see Art Attitude: The Random Thoughts of RFM McInnis by Robert McInnis, 2021

biography and other examples in
A is Alberta: A Centennial Alphabet Ken Tingley, Simple Truth Publications, 2005;
Spaces and Places - Eight Decades of Landscape Painting in Alberta, by J.Ironside, pg.106;
Dict. of Canadian Artists, by C.MacDonald, Vol.4, addendum;
Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.3, pg.24, Westbridge Pub., 2001

listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, see website at Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN]

Reference: listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website

Reference: for more biographical information and examples of work check out this website at stephenloweartgallery.ca/B>