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Wesley W. Bates

Recent solo & group exhibitions:

  • 2009 JURIED MINIATURE SHOW. The Art Exchange, London, Ontario 2008 WOODIES Group show. The Assembly, Hamilton, Ontario
  • 2008 ELK CREEK WINERY. Group show. Wood Engravings. Owenton, Kentucky
  • 2008 WORLD WASHI SUMMIT. Group show at Sherway Gardens Gallery, Etobicoke
  • 2007 VISIONS FROM VOICES. Group show. Art inspired by Kentucky poetry, prose and songwriting, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, Kentucky
  • 2006 IMPRESSIONS ON PAPER. Two-man show with George Walker. Wood Engravings. Leacock Museum National Historic Site, Orillia, Ontario
  • 2006 PRINT SHOW. Group show. Wood Engravings. The Art Exchange, London
  • 2005 BEYOND THE BOOK. Joint exhibition with Alan Stein. Charcoal Drawings on a large scale by Wesley W. Bates. The Grimsby Public Art Gallery, Grimsby, Ontario

Sample publications:

  • In Black and White: A Wood Engraver’s Odyssey (Kentville, NS: Gaspereau Press 2008)
  • Sabbath Poems by Wendell Berry (Monterey, KY: Larkspur Press 2006)
  • The Farm by Wendell Berry (Press on Scroll Road 2005)
  • Logogryph by Thomas Wharton (Gaspereau Press 2004), cover & interior illustrations
  • Ursa Major by Robert Bringhurst (Gaspereau Press 2003), cover and title page
  • “For the Love of Place,” The New Quarterly no. 87 (summer 2003)
  • Falling Into Place by John Terpstra (Gaspereau Press 2002), cover & interior illustrations
  • Vis a Vis by Don McKay (Gaspereau Press 2001), cover and interior illustrations
  • Roots to the Earth by Wendell Berry (Clifford, ON: West Meadow Press 2001)
  • Point of the Graver (Erin Mills, ON: Porcupine’s Quill 1994)
  • According to Jake and the Kid by W. O. Mitchell (Random House 1994), cover
  • The Black Bonspiel of Willie MacCrimmon by W. O. Mitchell (Random House 1993), cover & illustrations

Some great teaching stints:

  • Hamilton Print Studio, Hamilton, Ontario
  • Annual workshops at Larkspur Press, Monterey, Kentucky USA
  • 2001 Artist-in-Residence, the Schneider Haus Museum, Kitchener, Ontario
  • Saint Michael’s Printshop, Saint John’s, Newfoundland
  • Sheridan College, Oakville, Ontario
  • Dundas Valley School of Art, Dundas, Ontario
  • MacKenzie House, Toronto
  • Vancouver Museum, Vancouver, BC
  • Southampton Art School, Southampton, Ontario
  • King Library Press, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky USA

 



Wesley Bates Studio
P.O. Box 67,
Clifford, Ontario
N0G 1M0
Phone:
+1-519-327-8529
Email: wesley@wesleybates.com