Ongoing projects
..West End Bridge, permanent art project and integration in design team for access structures to the bridge from surrounding neighbourhoods. In collaboration with Steve Gurysh, with eldorado architects. Pittsburgh, USA
.Modern Erratics, permanent installation, recreating full-scale erratic rocks from reprocessed post- consumer plastics. Saskatoon, Canada
.Monument to Rain, permanent installation, exploring our relationship to the dynamic environment, Georgetown. Seattle, USA
.Misericordia Station, permanent installations. Edmonton, Canada
Selected past works
2023 .Pictures of the Future, sculptural interventions in relation to Riverview Parks’s ecology and social role, With Steve Gurysh. Pittsburgh, USA
.Walden, re-staging of the play adapted for a contemporary context, collaboration with Magnetic North Theatre, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
2022 .Jasmine from Grasse, temporary installation, recreating individuals memories through custom-made scents, for Scents of Movement, Scents of Place, Art Gallery of Alberta. Edmonton, Canada
.Sunset Sunrise, temporary installation for the Victoria Gallery, as part of Handmade Universe: From craft to code and the spaces between. State Library Victoria. Melbourne, Australia
2021 .Iconic Site and Limelight: Saturday Night, temporary installation, for River of Light by Culture Liverpool. Liverpool, UK
.The Gathering Place, permanent installation, with KHBT/OSA. Inverness, Scotland
2020 .Activation and Cultural Planning, for the North West Travellers building + Historic Fire Hall #1, for CMLC and City of Calgary. With Zeidler architects. Calgary, Canada
.Stories from Here, Social practice project at a time of isolation, live event May 4-8, 2020, co-produced by Magnetic North Theatre, with
Contemporary Calgary, KCAI Crossroads Gallery: Center for Contemporary Practice, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Wyoming Public
Radio, Laramie Public Art Coalition, Wyoming Art Party, and The Haub School of ENR
2019 .Nyhavna, permanent and temporary works, within an experimental and inclusive Art Plan, with Katja Aßmann. Trondheim, Norway
.WATERSHED+, lead artist, long term plan and implementation of the program to place creativity at the heart of the municipal water
services and related projects, Calgary, Canada
.Dale Hodges Park, formerly Bowmont Park, permanent project, with O2 Planning+Design, Source2Source, and AECOM, Calgary, Canada
.Here, exhibition in KCAI Crossroads Gallery: Center for Contemporary Practice, Kansas City, USA
2018 .Artist in Residence, within the Faculty of Culture & Community, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, Canada
.Iconic Site (#5), temporary installation, neon sign, part of The Bentway’s Fall Art Exhibition If, But, What If?, Toronto, Canada
.Here, research project on identity of place through personal stories. With Laramie Public Art and University of Wyoming. Laramie, USA
2017 .You Are Here, temporary installation for the launch of the San Francisco Arts Institute new campus, San Francisco, USA
.An audience of one, temporary interactive installation, for Urban Lights Ruhr, Marl, Germany
.Jasmine from Grasse, temporary installation, Esker Foundation, Calgary, Canada
2016 .Seattle CSO Art Master Plan, lead planning artists, a fifteen year curatorial and commissioning plan to integrate artists responding to new
infrastructure of Combined Sewer Overflow system in Seattle, environmental issues and community impact. Commissioned by 4culture, Seattle, USA.
.East 9th, lead artist for a new cultural street-scape, with eldorado architects and Coen + Partners, Lawrence, KS, USA
2015 .You Are Here, temporary installation. Sheffield, UK
.Urbane Lights Ruhr, co-curating the 2015 edition with Katja Aßmann. Hagen, Germany
.Silent Fairground, temporary installation. Hagen, Germany
.Pantone Perfect 2, temporary installation, for Urbane Künste Ruhr. Hagen, Germany
.Sunset Sunrise 2, temporary installation, for Urbane Künste Ruhr. Hagen, Germany
.Lost Spaces, international ideas competition design & implementation collaboration with Design Talks Institute, Calgary, Canada
.Calgary Biennial, temporary installation, Calgary, Canada
.Freeman's Wood, board game, for StoreyG2, Lancaster, UK
.City Orchard, permanent installation, with BCA Landscape, for Worcester University, UK
2014 .Forest Lawn Liftstation, permanent project. Calgary, Canada
.Pantone Perfect, temporary installation, for Urbane Künste Ruhr, Hamm, Germany
.Sunset Sunrise, temporary installation, for Urbane Künste Ruhr, Hamm, Germany
.The Field, permanent project, for Up Projects, London, UK
.You Are Here, temporary installation for the Commonwealth Games 2014, Glasgow, UK
2013 .Cacher pour mieux montrer, temporary artwork, Saskatoon, Canada
.A Walk to the Edge of the World, new theatre production, collaboration with Magnetic North Theatre, Scotland
2012 .Hydrant drinking fountains, design of removable fountains, Calgary, Canada
.Show Time Series, 5 projects for Gl Holtegaard Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2011 .Charmouth Bridge, footbridge design and construction, in collaboration with County engineers, Dorset, UK
.Iconic Site, temporary installation to coincide with the opening of the art gallery Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
.Wild life, collaboration with Magnetic North Theatre for a new production, UK
.Limelight: Saturday night, temporary installation, Gaborone, Frankfurt, Toronto, Salford, Miami
2010 .Watershed+Manual, Public art masterplan, Calgary, Canada.
.Limelight: Saturday night, temporary installation, London, Newcastle, Glasgow, Inverness, Arlington, Kansas City
.Millennium Promenade, Permanent installation, with Grants Landscape Architects and Cullinan Studio, Bristol , UK
2009 .4 dimensional mapping, residency and research project, Fogo Island, Canada
.Morecambe House, Public art plan, Morecambe, UK
2008 .Històries i Llocs, temporary installation. Priorat, Spain
.Iconic Site..., temporary installation. Newcastle, Liverpool, UK
.Odd sympathies, temporary installation in collaboration with composer John Metcalf, for Artes Mundi, Cardiff, UK
.Walden, collaboration with Magnetic North Theatre, Edinburgh, UK
.Urban parterre, permanent commission working with ruderal plants and classic garden pattern, Bristol, UK
2007 .Iconic Site, temporary installation, For Cube, Centre for the built environment, Manchester, UK
2006 .Rough Mix, multi-disciplinary collaborative research, Edinburgh, UK
.Sidekick, curating 3 artists for Sideshow, Nottingham, UK
.PROJECT, regeneration proposal, commission and series of public interventions, Peterhead, Scotland
.You are here, temporary installation National Waterfront Museum, Swansea, UK
2005 .Limelight, temporary installation for Radiance, Glasgow, UK
.The distance between us, temporary installations. Birmingham, UK
2004 .Depósito elevado, temporary installation, for Madrid Abierto, Madrid, Spain
.Cultivated wilderness, permanent installation In collaboration with Matt Baker, Glasgow, UK
.Viewing Platforms, permanent installations, Devon, UK
.Terra Incognita, temporary installation, Glasgow, UK
2003 .Sea view, temporary installations, Tyne and Wear area, UK
2002 .Private view, temporary installation, Dun Laoghaire, Ireland
2001 .Stirring The City, curation and exhibition design, The lighthouse Centre for Design and Architecture, Glasgow, UK
.Views of the West Coast of Scotland, temporary installations, Argyll and Bute, Scotland
2000 .Samples, temporary installations, Glasgow, UK
.Shed, Temporary installation, Glasgow, UK
Selected talks & presentations
2021 .Alberta Emerald Foundation, for the Emerald Speaker Series Season 2: The Role that Artists and Art Can Play in Addressing Societies Largest Challenges. Edmonton, Canada
.Alberta Emerald Foundation, for the Emerald Documentary Series Season 2: Dale Hodges Park. Edmonton, Canada
.Kunstakademiet, Academy of Arts, Tromsø, Norway
2020 .Manchester School of Architecture, for the Provocation Series: Subversive Practice. Office for Subversive Architecture & Sans façon. Manchester, UK
.University of Lethbridge, Architecture & Design NOW series, Lethbridge, Canada
.Canadian Urban Institute, What role will public space and public art play in urban recovery?
.Esker Foundation, Crash Course: Discussions in Contemporary Art. Calgary, Canada
2019 .Koro Public Art Norway, The art of developing a city, Oslo, Norway
.Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, Trondheim, Norway
.University of Calgary, Public Art class. Calgary, Canada
.Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City MO, USA
2018 .Recycling Council of Alberta, Banff, Canada
2017 .Public art, new ways of thinking & working, York University, Canada
.Cardiff University, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff, Wales
.Sheffield Hallam University, for the Gravity, guest lecture series, UK
.University of Leeds, School of Design, Art and Design, Leeds, UK
2016 .Western Canada Water Annual Conference, Calgary, Canada
.University of Wyoming, Laramie, USA
.University of Sheffield, for the School of Architecture and curator Jane Anderson, Sheffield, UK
2015 .The Future of Water, presentation of Watershed+ at the Governor's Water Conference, Manhattan, KS, USA
.Royal Geographical Society International Conference of Historical Geographers, London, UK
.University of Applied Sciences and Arts, for the MA in Scenography and Communication, Dortmund, Germany
.Alberta College of Art+Design, Calgary, Canada
2014 .Alberta Association of Landscape Architects, Keynote speaker, Calgary, Canada
.Creative Calgary Congress, Keynote speaker, Calgary, Canada
.Esker Gallery, Calgary, Canada
.Creative City Network of Canada, Keynote speaker, Hamilton, Canada
.Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary, Canada
2013 .Urbane Kunste Ruhr, Bergkamen, Germany
.University of Saskatoon, Saskatoon, Canada
.TRUCK Gallery, Calgary, Canada
.The lighthouse, Velocity Series, Glasgow, Scotland
.The Lulu Series: Art in the City, Vancouver, Canada
.Lawrence Arts Centre, Lawrence, USA
2012 .Emily Carr University of Art and Design, for the Master of Applied Arts, Vancouver, Canada
.BABEL Working Group, Boston College, Northeastern University, M.I.T., Tufts University, Keynote speaker, Boston, USA
.Danish National School for Contemporary Dance, Copenhagen, Denmark
2011 .City of Calgary Society of Professional Engineers, Calgary, Canada
.Manchester School of Architecture, Manchester, UK
.Alberta College of Art+Design, Calgary, Canada
.Tramway, contemporary visual and performing arts, Glasgow, UK
.University of Oxford, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, UK
2010 .Biennale Internationale du Design, for Master of Architecture and Design, Saint Etienne, France
.Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO, USA
.University of Kansas, School of Architecture, Design & Planning, Lawrence, KS, USA
.Canadian Water Innovation Lab, Calgary, Canada
.University of Edinburgh, Institute of Geography, Edinburgh, UK
.Birkbeck College, University of London, for the MA Arts & Policy Management course, London, UK
2009 .Manchester Metropolitan University, for the MA Design LAB, Manchester, UK
.Art and urban design conference, Salford, UK
.Gallery La Esquina, for Art through Architecture (AtA), Kansas City, MO, USA
.Storey Gallery, Lancaster, UK
2008 .What’s Art Got to Do With It?, conference on the role of creative practitioners in place making, Bolton, UK
.University of Edinburgh, Institute of Geography, UK
.The Bartlett, University College London, for Making buildings, from the doorstep to the city, London, UK
2007 .National Public art conference, Keynote speaker, Nottingham, UK
.Art Gene, Barrow in Furness, UK
2006 .Glasgow school of Art, Glasgow, UK
2005 .Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
.Street Level Gallery, Glasgow, UK
.Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, UK
Selected residencies
2019 .Center for Contemporary Practice program at the Kansas City Art Institute Crossroads Gallery, Kansas City MO, USA
2018 .Faculty of Culture & Community, Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Vancouver, Canada
2012 .DIVA residency at Gl Holtegaard gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2009 .Fogo Island Arts Corp., Newfoundland, Canada
2004 .LOCALE, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen, UK
2001 .Cove Park, Outside the Box, Scotland
Selected Awards
2022 .World Landscape Architecture, Merit Award, for Dale Hodges Park
2021 .Canadian Society of Landscape Architects, Jury’s Award of Excellence and National Award, for Dale Hodges Park
2020 .Alberta Emerald Foundation, Shared Footprints Award, for Dale Hodges Park
2015 .Mayor Urban Design Award, Conceptual/Theoretical Urban Design Project, for Lost Spaces
.Mayor Urban Design Award, Honourable Mention Urban Fragments, for Forest Lawn Lift Station
.Canadian Society of Landscape Architects National, Awards of Excellence, National Merit, for Bowmont Park
2014 .Americans for the Arts Public Art Network Award for 2014 Year in Review, for Cacher pour mieux montrer
.Americans for the Arts Public Art Network Award for 2014 Year in Review, for Hydrant drinking fountains
.Americans for the Arts Public Art Network Award for 2014 Year in Review, for Watershed+ artists residencies
.Scottish Arts Club, for best new Scottish drama performance at the Fringe, for A Walk to the Edge of the World
.40 under 40, Avenue Magazine, Calgary
2013 .Mayor Urban Design Award, Honourable Mention Conceptual/Theoretical Urban Design Projects, for Bowmont Park
2004 .Millennium Award from the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland, for Terra Incognita
Selected Teaching
.Faculty for Fall Semester, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Canada, 2018
.Guest critic, School of Design, University of Leeds, UK, 2017
.Guest critic, Department of Art and Design, Sheffield Hallam University, UK, 2017
.Guest critic, Scenography and Communication, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Dortmund, Germany, 2015
.Visiting lecturer, School of Architecture, Design & Planning, University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA, 2010
.Guest critic, Architecture department, University of East London, UK, 2010
.Visiting lecturer, Fine Art department, University of Cumbria, UK, 2010, 2008
.Visiting lecturer, Architecture department, University of Nottingham, UK, 2010, 2007, 2006
.Visiting lecturer, MA Design LAB, Manchester University, UK, 2009
.Guest critic, Fine Art department, University of Wales, Cardiff, UK, 2008
.Visiting lecturer, Fine Art department, Newcastle University, UK, 2007
.Visiting lecturer, Architecture department, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, UK, 2001
.Visiting lecturer, Environmental Art Department, Glasgow School of Art, UK, 2001
Charles Blanc
MArch, Advanced Architectural Design, Strathclyde University, Glasgow
DPLG, Ecole d’Architecture de St Etienne
Tristan Surtees
BA Hon’s, Glasgow School of Art