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Paula Seifred O'Brien - Paintings - Textiles - Colorful Home - Inspiration

Exhibition CV Paula O'Brien

  ONE - WOMAN SHOWS
2009 After The Circus - Sunshine Coast Art Centre, Sechelt
1992 Surface / Resurface - Sunshine Coast Art Centre, Sechelt
More than 120 pieces; paintings, jewelry, garments and textile pieces, decorated furniture. Five embellished garments were stolen from a break-in
   
  GROUP SHOWS
2010 25 Years of Life - Sunshine Coast Art Centre, Sechelt
2008 Wearable Art Show - Vancouver Museum
  Artists At the Nest -  Swallow’s Nest, Gibsons
  Friends of the Gallery - Sunshine Coast Art Centre, Sechelt
2004 TEXTiles - The Ferry Building, West Vancouver
  The First 25 Years - Sunshine Coast Art Centre, Sechelt
2002 9/11 – Sunshine Coast Art Centre, Sechelt                         
  Come Rain Or Come Shine - Seymour Art Centre, Burnaby
  Bernina Wearable Art Fashion Show - Houston, Texas
  Friends of the Gallery - Sechelt Art Centre
1999 Fairfield Wearable Art Fashion Show - Houston, Texas
  Harmony Festival - Vancouver
1993 Regional Juried Show - Sunshine Coast Art Centre, Sechelt
  Images & Objects - Trail
1992 Summer Invitational Show - Sunshine Coast Art Centre, Sechelt
  Creative Sewing & Needlework Festival - Chatelaine Celebrity Expert, Vancouver
1991 Junque Jewelry - Honorable Mention, Imagination Market, Vancouver
  Annual Juried Show - Honorable Mention, Sunshine Coast Art Centre, Sechelt
  Made By Hand - Paper  & Felt - Harbourfront, Toronto
  VGFA  Group Show - Sinclair Centre, Vancouver
  The Wild West Postcard Show - Body Currents Gallery, Tlell
1990 Made By Hand-Paper & Felt  - The Canadian Craft Museum, Vancouver      
  20 x 20 x 20  -  BC Crafthouse Gallery, Vancouver
  Junque Jewelry - Award Winner, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby
1989 VGFA Group Show - Queen Elizabeth Theatre Mezzanine, Vancouver
1984 Young Designers - The Fashion Centre, London, England
  Invitational Auction - Band Aid Famine Relief, Bradford, England
1983 Dressing Up - Rufford Art Centre, Nottinghamshire, England
  Silk Week - Oakwood Art Centre, Maldon, Essex, England   
  Women & Textiles: Their Works & Their Lives - Battersea Art Centre, London
  Goldsmith¹s Diploma Show -  Goldsmiths College, London
1976 John Abbott Student Show -  Dorval Art Centre, Montreal
1975 Lakeshore Creative Stitchery Guild - Stewart Hall Art Centre, Pointe Claire, Quebec
1974 Lakeshore Creative Stitchery Guild - Stewart Hall Art Centre, Pointe Claire, Quebec
   
  PUBLICATIONS
1996 Wearable Art Focus Issue, Women’s Day Magazine
1985 Beauty Secrets: The Politics Of Beauty by Wendy Chapkiss, book cover, German version
1984 Women's Contemporary Art Diary - 1986, California
   
  EDUCATION
2009 Nicholas Pearce course, Gibsons Summer School of the Arts
2008 Justin Ogilvie course, Gibsons Summer School of the Arts
1983 Goldsmiths Diploma, Embroidery/Textiles as Fine Arts, Goldsmiths College, London
1976 Fine Arts Diploma, John Abbott College, Montreal
   
  COLLECTIONS
  Coast Paper, Vancouver, BC
  The Express Newspaper, London
  Private Collection of The Electrum Gallery, London, England
  Private Collections in Canada, USA, England, France


 

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