Hello thisisnotdawngavin-ga,
Dawn Gavin was born in Lanarkshire in Scotland in 1968.
After finishing school, she went to study at the Duncan of Jordanstown
College of Art, part of the University of Dundee, and received a First
Class Honours BA in Drawing and Painting in June 1991. She went on to
postgraduate studies and was awarded a Master of Fine Arts in Fine
Art/Public Art in December 1992. She became a part-time lecturer at
the University of Dundee, and taught both practical painting skills
and the history and theory of art at Duncan of Jordanstown College of
Art until June 1996.
She then moved to the University of Ulster in Belfast, Northern
Ireland, to work on a research degree. In August of the following
year, she became Assistant Professor at the School of Art and Design
at SIUC (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale), where she
coordinated the foundation program.
Currently, Dawn Gavin is Assistant Professor of Drawing at The
Department of Art, College of Arts and Humanities, University of
Maryland.
Dawn Gavin has written articles for the Irish contemporary arts
magazine, Circa, and also for Transcript, a journal of visual culture.
She is especially interested in books about contemporary artists and
in the relationship of language to the body.
Biographical information from:
http://www.shawnee.cc.il.us/NEWS/gavin.asp Web site of Shawnee
Community College
http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Colleges/ARHU/Depts/Art/newsite/ARTWEBSITE/people/gavin.html
Web site of University of Maryland
In 2000, Dawn Gavin created a multimedia exhibition titled Water
Resisting at McLean County Arts Center, Illinois. You can see a photo
of one exhibit, and also a photo of the artist on the Center’s web
site at http://www.mcac.org/sub5/sub5j/
Another exhibition, at Southern Illinois University, gave Dawn a
chance to show her sense of humor. The exhibition was about “underwear
art” (!!!). Dawn produced a piece called "What a Scotsman wears under
his kilt" It consisted simply of an empty red-velvet-lined box!
(information from http://www.mymessybedroom.com/columnshow.asp?id=2525
, My Messy Bedroom, a site on sex, dating and relationships by Josey
Vogels)
Dawn Gavin has won awards from the National Collage Society. You can
see her prize-winning pieces on the web site of the Society.
1. "Gridlock", 5"x6", Acetate, tape, paper, plastic, gouache, Merit
Award: http://www.nationalcollage.com/images/16thShow/17X.jpg
2. "Alba" 5x5”, Altered postcard & mixed media, Grumbacher Gold Metal
Award: http://www.nationalcollage.com/images/17thShow/DawnGavin.JPG
The home page for the Society is at http://www.nationalcollage.com/
Dawn Gavin sometimes likes to use images of butterflies and other
insects in her work. However, she was less than enthusiastic about
the ladybug population explosion in 1999, as reported in Southern
Illinois Outdoors: http://www.sioutdoors.com/stories/ladybugs022799.html
I hope this has given you the information you were seeking. |
