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| Dennis Darragh
Dennis Darragh studied painting and sculpture at the Vancouver School of Art (1965-9). By 1969 he was engaged in experimental approaches in multi-media environments, working in participation with dancers, musicians, sculptors and poets. He associated with multi-media groups in Amsterdam, Paris (Videoheads), and New York (E.A.T). He had a close working association with noted Dutch constructivist, Livinus (Frei Akademy), den Haag, Netherlands (1973-9) experimenting with film, video, sound and light synthesizers. He also engaged in photographing wilderness landscapes still existent in western Canada, and has exhibited in diverse locations as the Provincial Legislature of British Columbia, Robson Square Media Centre in Vancouver, and locations in den Haag, Netherlands and Gallerie Mansart and the Canadian Embassy in Paris, France. His work was also included in a retrospective of the life of Claude Levi-Strauss at the Musée de l’Homme in Paris. Within his interest in wilderness photography and conservation, is a curiosity in indigenous cultures of coastal North-West America, reflected in photographic portfolios of the Nuxalk and Haida nations. Annual photographic forays in the Jasper region of the Canadian Rockies occupy a continuing interest in landscape forms. Presently he is engaged in an experimental stills photo-based documentary film (2005-6) in Vancouver.
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About the artist: b: May 28, 1943 Revelstoke
B.C. Canada.
