For Dave Hind, the title “thingmaker” is an unencumberedopen-ended designation. This allows Hindto move freely between creating functional object, sculptures, two dimensionalworks and musical instruments.

The artist finds his inspiration within the debris ofreclaimed waste metals and the discarded bio-products of industry, makingbeauty from abandoned and defective products.

This series of aluminum painting makes use of reclaimedmetal siding which is cut, carved and layered into a mosaic of texture andcolour.  The Sacred Arboreal PortraitProject (SAPP) is an on going body of work which aims at historicallydocumenting specific trees who share their space with the manufacturedlandscape/cityscape.  It is that whichhappens at the meeting of the natural and the constructed that Hind examines.

Hind offers this pragmatic view, “I see a real range ofthis station.  There are trees that havebeen so isolated and cut back that their existence appears tortured; there aretrees that seem to have found a harmony within their crowded circumstance; andthere are trees that are unstoppable in their overtaking of that which is intheir way.”

What are the answers for us and for nature?  While others search for answers, Dave Hindstand firmly and confidently in the question, giving us space to observe and,also, to question.

Hind lives in Brantford, Ontario with his sweetheart Kira andtheir two children, Tula and Esme.

Education

          BFA     University of Western Ontario. London, Ontario 1992

Awards

          Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibit – Best InShow 2006

          Look 94 – Award of Excellence –Gallery Lambton 1994

          University of Ontario – Gold Medal of Excellence FineArts 1992

Private Collections

          Bank of Montreal

          Milton Hydro – Milton, Ontario

          Royal Botanical Gardens – Hamilton, Ontario

          The Gathering Place – Cleveland, Ohio

          City Of Hamilton – Hamilton, Ontario

Solo Exhibitions

          Field Study – Terase Gallery, Thornbury, Ontario 2006

          SW Hamilton Studio Tour – Hamilton, Ontario 2000-2006

          Cluster & Glom – Carnegie Gallery– Dundas, Ontario 2004

          Thingmaker Music – Harbourfront Centre– Toronto, Ontario 2002

          Entitled – Burlington Art Centre – Burlington, Ontario 2002

          Canada Blooms – Toronto, Ontario 2000

"Black and Bluebeech"

"Carlukish"

"Fruit and Tower"

"Hear Fort"

"Man and Maple"

"Power Line Road"

"Rod Tree"

"Tavistock By Night"