Curriculum Vitae
Jean Wills
Education:
1990-1994 BFA Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, NS, Canada.
1986-1989 BA University of King's College, Halifax, NS, Canada.
Solo and Collaborative Exhibitions:
2023 From Life: Casein Studies of Food, The Open Gallery, Rotary Arts Centre, Corner Brook, NL.
2022 Drift, collaborative exhibition with Jennifer Young, Tina Dolter Gallery, Rotary Arts Centre, Corner Brook, NL.
2019 From Life: Recent Paintings, The Open Gallery, Rotary Arts Centre, Corner Brook, NL.
2012 Vanitas, J.L. Gallery, Corner Brook, NL.
2010 Implore/Nature Morte, two-person exhibition with Nancy Jacobsen, Arts and Culture Centre, Corner Brook, NL.
2005 Dawns, the rOUGE gallery of Eastern Edge gallery, St. John’s NL.
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2024 Fabulous!, Open Gallery Rotary Arts Centre, Corner Brook, NL.
2022 Home, League of Artists of Western Newfoundland (LAWN) travelling exhibition, Merchant Warehouse, Woody Point; Arts and Culture Centre, Stephenville; Arts and Culture Centre, Corner Brook; and Nurse Myra Bennett Centre for the Performing Arts, Cow Head.
2016-21 Writers at Woody Point Festival themed exhibitions at the Heritage Theatre, Woody Point, NL.
2020 Each for Equal, rOUGE Gallery, Eastern Edge, St. John’s, NL.
2020 Newfoundland Through a Window, Arts and Culture Centre, Corner Brook, NL.
2019 Western NL: People, Landscape, Culture, Tina Dolter Gallery, Rotary Arts Centre, Corner Brook, NL.
2019 We Love Thee Frozen Land, Arts and Culture Centre, Corner Brook, NL.
2019 We Love Thee Smiling Land, Arts and Culture Centre, Corner Brook, NL.
2018 Presence, Arts and Culture Centre, Corner Brook, NL.
2018 Our Games A Hockey and Sport Themed Exhibition, Tina Dolter Gallery, Rotary Arts Centre, Corner Brook, NL.
2016 Parenthood, Rotary Arts Centre, Corner Brook, NL.
2016 Six: Six Artists, Six Walls, Arts and Culture Centre, Corner Brook, NL.
2015 I AM NSCAD, NSCAD University Alumni show, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS.
2014 Journey, Fisher’s Loft, Port Rexton NL.
2011 Bridging the Gap, Eastern Edge Gallery, St. John’s, NL.
2009 Time and Place, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Corner Brook, NL.
Collections:
First United Church, Corner Brook, NL, Canada.
Hew and Draw Hotel, Corner Brook, NL, Canada.
Newfoundland and Labrador Provincial Art Bank, St. John's, NL, Canada.
Jean Wills's work is in private collections in Canada, Belize, the US, and the UK.
Awards and Grants:
2021 Recipient of an ArtsNL Professional Project Grant to create work for the exhibition Drift at the Rotary Arts Centre, Corner Brook, in collaboration with Jennifer Young.
2018 Newfoundland and Labrador Provincial Art Bank purchase: Capelin.
2019 First prize in the United Church art contest, Corner Brook: Sunsets.
Publications:
2023 St. John’s 1, 2017, used as the homepage image on the website of the Canadian Society for Aesthetics.
2020 Harvest 1 and 2, 2019, published in the spring 2020 issue of Riddle Fence Magazine, issue #36.
2020 Discobolus, ink, illustration in Kinetic Beauty: The Philosophical Aesthetics of Sport, by Jason Holt, 2020, Routledge, NY NY.
Teaching:
2017 Taught a free three-hour drawing workshop run by LAWN, for the community.
2016 Taught a free three-hour drawing workshop, one of nine workshops given by LAWN members during A Month of LAWN. These workshops were open to members of the community free of charge, thanks to the support of the NL Arts Council.
Press:
cornerbrooker.com/2012/04/jean-wills-vanitas
Weekend Arts Magazine, CBC NL, April 10 2010, Interview with Angela Antle about Implore/Nature Morte two person show at the Arts and Culture Centre, Corner Brook.
Western Star, April 15, 2010, Interview with Cliff Wells about Implore/Nature Morte.
Membership:
2015-2021 Member at large, League of Artists of Western Newfoundland, LAWN.
2011-2015 Vice chair of LAWN.
Contact Information:
78 East Valley Rd., Corner Brook, NL, Canada
jeanhaliburtonwills@hotmail.com
1 (709) 734-3184
1 (709) 640-7550