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Online Publications
An Open Book is a catalogue of publications about artworks in the Surrey Art Gallery's permanent collection. The Gallery has commissioned writers to produce brief essays about specific artworks, putting them in relation to the artist's biography and the history of their practice. Many of the publications also include statements written by the artists.
The intention of An Open Book is to make information on the wonderful artworks in the Gallery's collection easily available to the public. The publications are availble as PDF files that can be downloaded and printed at home. We named this publication An Open Book because readers are invited to dip into any part of the collection, and to come back to this web site often, as more publications are produced.
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 | Vikky Alexander, Interior Pavillion #4
Vikky Alexander By Christopher Brayshaw
Vikky Alexander: Interior Pavillion #4 (1989) by Petra Watson
launch PDF |
 | Nancy Boyd, Separate Agendas & In Her Dreams
Nancy Boyd by Karen Hasselfeld
Artist's Statement (2004)
launch PDF |
 | Diana Burgoyne, He transmits / She receives
Diana Burgoyne: Gesture and the Handmade
by Daniel Joliffe
launch PDF |
 | Pat Cairns, Equinox and Moving Centre
Pat Cairns; Equinox and Moving Centre by Bettina Matzkuhn
Artist's Statement (1991)
launch PDF |
| Judy Chartrand, "If This is What You Call 'Being Civilized,' I'd rather go back to Being a 'Savage'"
Judy Chartrand: "If This is What You Call 'Being Civilized,' I'd rather go back to Being a 'Savage'" by Amy Gogarty
Artist's Statement (2007)
launch PDF |
| Barbara Cole, Mending at the expense of the sides and Nevermind, Nevermind, Nevermind
Barbara Cole: Mending at the expense of the sides by Karen Henry
Artist's Statement
launch PDF |
| Gwen Curry, Under the Ramp
Gwen Curry: Under the Ramp by Robin Laurence
Artist's Statement (2000) launch PDF |
 | Diana Dean, Boy Getting Out of Bath
Diana Dean: Boy Getting Out of Bath by Eliza Lee
Artist's Statement (2000)
Artist's Statement (2001) launch PDF |
| Fred Douglas, Walk In The Rain
"Giving Painting Lessons to the Aliens" by Jerry Zaslove
Artist's Statement (1996)
Afterword "Picturing" by Liane Davison launch PDF |
 | Barry Goodman, Roland (Barthes), Jaques (Derrida), & Jean Francoise (Lyotard)
Barry Goodman: Reading the Stitch by Bettina Matzkuhn
Artist's Statement (2003) launch PDF |
 | Torrie Groening, Amuse Bouche, or The Audition
Torrie Groening: Amuse Bouche, or The Audition by Roger Boulet
Artist Statement (2006)
Notes on Amuse Bouche by Torrie Groening (2007)
launch PDF |
 | Gu Xiong, Barricade of Bicycles - June 4th 1989 and Cafeteria #1
Gu Xiong by Christopher Brayshaw
Artist’s Statement 1994) launch PDF |
 | E.J. Hughes, High Tide at
Cowichan Bay
E.J. Hughes by Margot Leigh Butler
launch PDF |
 | Toni Latour, The Drag King Project
Toni Latour: The Drag King Project by Donna McAlear
Artist's Statement (2008) launch PDF |
 | Lori-Ann Latremouille, Lock and Key
Lori-Ann Latremouille and Surrealism by Ed Varney
Artist's Statement (1990)
Artist's Statement (2006) launch PDF |
| Evan Lee, S. Fraser Way, Surrey, B.C. Landscape #1 (Flags)
Picture Elements: The Photographic Activity of Evan Lee by Sharla Sava
Artist's Statement (2007)
launch PDF |
 | Don Li-Leger, Great Blue Heron
Great Blue Heron by Carol Prokop
Artist's Statement (2004)
launch PDF |
 | Bettina Matzkuhn, The Magic Quilt
Bettina Matzkuhn: The Magic Quilt by Amy Gogarty
Artist's Statement (2008) launch PDF |
| Sally Michener, Diane C. and Barb G.
Sally Michener: Diane C. and Barb G. by Robin Laurence
Artist's Statement (2008) launch PDF |
 | Carel Moiseiwitsch, Oh Canada Our Home And Native Land
Carel Moiseiwitsch: O Canada Our Home And Native Land by Robin Laurence
launch PDF |
 | Shani Mootoo, The Muddy Swamp is where the Lotus Grows
Shani Mootoo: The Muddy Swamp is where the Lotus Grows by Denise Oleksijczuk
launch PDF |
 | Monika Napier, Swarm
Monika Napier by Kirstie Lang
Artist's Statement launch PDF |
| Haruko Okano, The Hands of the Compassionate One
Haruko Okano: The Hands of the Compassionate One by Robin Laurence
Artist's Statement launch PDF |
| Pudlo Pudlat, Untitled
Pudlo Pudlat (1916-1992) by Marion Jackson
launch PDF |
 | Philippe Raphanel, View
Philippe Raphanel: View by Ann Rosenberg
Artist's Statement (1994) launch PDF |
| Bill Rennie, Where I Was Brought Up: 6949 Harris Road
Bill Rennie: Where I Was Brought Up: 6949 Harris Road by Amy GogartyNot Far From Gold by Sally Michener Bill Rennie - A Fighter and A Thinker by Jeannie Mah Artist's Statement (2007) |
 | Robin Ripley, Untitled
Robin Ripley: Drawn Threads by Bettina Matzkuhn
Artist's Statement (2003)
launch PDF |
 | Ruth Scheuing, Metamorphosis #11 Spider
Ruth Scheuing: Spider by Bettina Matzkuhn
Artist's Statment (1992) launch PDF |
 | Marianna Schmidt, Untitled (Three Figures)
Marianna Schmidt: Untitled (Three Figures) by Robin Laurence, 2008 launch PDF |
 | my name is scot, promise
my name is scot: by Kirstie Lang
Artist's Statement (1995)
Artist's Statement (1996)
launch PDF |
 | Sandra Semchuk, Death is a Natural Thing Sweetheart & Acceptance
Sandra Semchuk by Christopher Brayshaw
launch PDF |
 | Arnold Shives, Green Mountain
Arnold Shives by Christopher Brayshaw
Artist's Statements (2001) launch PDF |
 | David Sloan, Four Buses
David Sloan by Chris Brayshaw
Artist's Statement (1985)
launch PDF |
 | Reva Stone, Imaginal Expression
Reva Stone's Embodied Technologies by Joy James
Artist's Statement (2006)
launch PDF |
 | Richard Tetrault, Mid-day Alley and Quartet
Richard Tetrault by Elizabeth Kidd
Artist's Statement (2008) launch PDF |
| Henry Tsang, Chinese Pictures
Henry Tsang: A Family Name by Gu Xiong
Artist's Statement (2006)
Biography (2006) by Margot Leigh Butler
launch PDF |
 | Ian Wallace, Critic at Work
Ian Wallace by Christopher Brayshaw
Artist's Statement (2005)
launch PDF |
 | jil p. weaving, to be continued...
jil p. weaving: to be continued... by Randy Lee Cutler
Artist's Statement (2002)
launch PDF |
| Neil Wedman, Study For Black Bride
Neil Wedman by Chris Brayshaw
Artist's Statement (2000)
Artist's Staement (1992)
launch PDF |
 | Stella Weinert, Teens Together: Hanging Out Stella Weinert by Bob Sherrin Teens Together: Hanging Out - A Collaborative photo project by Stella Weinert with Surrey Teens by Christine Lawrence Artist's Statement (1999) |
 | Chris Woods, The Wrath of the Devourers
Chris Woods:The Wrath of the Devourers by Christopher Brayshaw
Chris Woods: The Wrath of the Devourers by Robin Laurence
Artist's Statement (1994)
Artist's Statement: Technical History and Provenance (1995) launch PDF |