Get to know the New Westminster artist behind Realpolitik, the exhibit showing at the Gallery at Queen’s Park until July 29.
This Sunday, the gallery presents an artist talk with Tony Durke as part of the Inter/action: Artist Learning Series. Inter/action is a monthly free public event that facilitates dialogue, practice, and education between the exhibiting artists and members of the community. The programming will be developed and delivered by the artists at the gallery. Inter/action: Artist Learning Series encourages the integration of the arts into daily life providing fully hands-on, barrier-free, no-cost art education that promotes intergenerational mentoring opportunities and inclusivity between backgrounds of gender, race, age and ability, according to a press release from the gallery.
Durke’s exhibit uses wood which is mostly recycled or upcycled.
Realpolitik stands for “the study of the forces that shape, maintain and alter the state is the basis of all political insight and leads to the understanding that the law of power governs the world of states just as the law of gravity governs the physical world,” according to the artist’s statement.
Durke was born in Victoria and grew up in Campbell River. He has worked in both the commercial fishing and forest industries. He studied film arts at Canadian College in Victoria and now works in the film industry, specializing in art direction. In his studio practice, Durke’s medium of choice is oil and mixed media on carved wood.
The artist talk takes place on Sunday, July 15 from 3 to 4 p.m. at The Gallery at Queen’s Park at Centennial Lodge in Queen’s Park.
