PRESS

2022

Janet Smith, Myfanwy MacLeod’s new installation makes satirical, pop-culture nod to the holiday blues, Stir, 13 December

2020

Biennale Gherdëina 7: – a breath? a name? – the ways of worldmaking, E-flux, 28 July 

2018

Janet Smith, Myfanwy MacLeod’s public artwork The Birds flies back to Olympic Village, Georgia Straight, 14 August  

Kevin Smith, City thinking about how to safeguard The Birds in Olympic Village, The Vancouver Sun, 4 October 

Kevin Smith, Art Seen: Contemporary Art Gallery curates new program in Canada House, London, The Vancouver Sun, 22 February

2017      

Christine Beyleveldt, Polygon Gallery opens at Lonsdale Quay, Capilano Courier, 20 November

Jeremy Shepherd, Coquettish camel flirts with controversy in North Van, North Shore News, 5 October 

Janet Smith, The Birds and Centennial Totem Pole set to leave for restoration, The Georgia Straight, 5 October

Kevin Griffin, The Birds to be plucked from Olympic Village for repairs, Vancouver Sun, 2 October

Leah Sandals, Hotboxing the White Cube: The Rise of Cannabis Culture in High Art, Canadian Art, 20 April

Historic B.C. camels inspire new North Vancouver statue, CBC News, 5 October

Vancouver’s giant sparrows getting much needed repairs, CBC News, 3 October

Naoibh O’Connor, ‘Olympic Village’s giant birds headed east for repairs’, Vancouver Courier, 23 November 

2016      

Amanda Sibert, ‘Playtime sculpture at Children’s Hospital brings fun to public art’, The Georgia Straight, 20 April

 

2015      

Kyra Kordoski, ‘Myfanwy MacLeod: Tell Her Nothing She Tells All’, C Magazine, Summer 2015

Tyler Coburn, Myfanwy MacLeod’s Tell her Nothing She Tells All, Art-Agenda

2014      

Adam Lauder, Stoics and Comedians:  Humour in New Canadian Art, Canadian Art, Summer 

Robin Laurence, Myfanwy MacLeod, Border Crossings, Vol. 33, no. 2: Remaking the Real (#130) p. 97-99

Michael Harris, ‘MYFANWY MACLEOD: or There and Back Again’, Galleries West, March

Robin Laurence, ‘Myfanwy MacLeod’s cultural provocation on display at the Vancouver Art Gallery’, The Georgia Straight, 20 March

Michael Turner, Sex, Drugs & Rock n’ Roll: Myfanwy MacLeod in Vancouver’, Canadian Art online, 7 May 

 

2013      

Joe Belanger, ‘On the Canvas: Former Londoner’s Idealism on Display, The London Free Press, 5 May

Bryne McLaughlin, ‘Myfanwy Macleod Revisits 1970’s London in Bittersweet Survey’, Canadian Art, 5 July

 

2012      

Marsha Lederman, Playmate Dorothy Stratten’s Story Told in Origami, The Globe and Mail, Oct. 8

 

2011      

Danielle Egan, Public Art Big Time, Canadian Art Magazine, Spring Issue

 

2010      

Marsha Lederman, When Giant Sparrows Attack, The Globe and Mail, May 15

 

2009      

Josée Drouin-Brisebois, Myfanwy Macleod: The High Art of Lowdown, Canadian Art Magazine, March 18

Kevin Griffin, Giant Sparrows Poised to Alight in Olympic Village, Vancouver Sun, 7 July

Robin Laurence,  Folk Art and High Art Make Wondrously Strange Mix, The Georgia Straight, November 26

Sarah Milroy, ‘Artists in a Land of Wanderers’ The Globe And Mail, April 25

 

2006      

Julia Dault, ‘F-Stopping: The Slide into Self-Repetition’ The National Post, January 19

Clint Burnham, ‘Artworks challenge and Intrigue,’ The Vancouver Sun, 3 June

Clint Burnham, ‘Artist crosses the frontiers between different media’, The Vancouver Sun, 2 February

Peter Culley, ‘The Ghost Whisperer’, Fillip, No. 3

Julia Dault, ‘A room of One’s Own’, The National Post, Thursday 15 June

Damian Inwood, ‘Beware the (slightly) open door’, the Province Sunday, 26, February

 

2006      

Robin Laurence, “Micah Lexier, Myfanwy MacLeod, Andrew Reyes’, The Georgia Straight, 2 March

Monique Mouton, ‘Myfanwy MacLeod’s Where I Lived, and What I Lived For’, Woo Magazine, Vol. 4 No. 2

 

2005      

Deborah Campbell, “Once Upon A Time”, Canadian Art Magazine, Spring Issue, Vol. 22

 

2004      

Elke von Buhr, ‘Der Superman Effekt’, Frankfurter Rundscau, 28 December

Clint Burham. “Aperto Vancouver”, Flash Art, Vol. Xxxvii, No. 239 Nov-Dec, P. 57-59

Deborah Campbell. The New School, Vancouver Guestlive 

Hans Adelbert Von Karweik, ‘Kunst unterm einfluss der Comics’, Wolsburger nachrichten, 26 November

Hans Adelbert Von Karweik, ‘Marsmannchen treffen Marchenfrosche’, Wolfsburger nachricten, 1 December

‘Kunst und Comics: Ausstellung im Schloss’, Wolfsburger Allegemeine Zietung, 26 November

Robin Laurence, Dreaming is a sound exercise in frustration, The Georgia Straight, September 23

Stuart Reid, ‘Flooring it in the Super Marketplace’, Four X Four, Durham Art Gallery, Canada

 

2003      

Christopher Brayshaw. Security and Anxiety Post- 9/11, The Georgia Straight, June 5-12

Samir Gandesha, ‘Vancouver’, Art Papers, November-December

Wiebke Huester, ‘Da Ist Die Junge Kunst, Die Sich Der Natur Zuwendet’, Frankfurter Allegemeine Zeitung, 4 October

Michael Scott, ‘Following the Lines’, Vancouver Sun, 26 June

Michael Turner, ‘Wall and Void’, Modern Painters, Summer

 

2002      

Paul Dale, ‘Hammertown’, Time Out, 3 October

Morgan Falconer, ‘London: Gasworks The Beachcombers’, Contemporary

Betty Ann Jordan, ‘Art’, Toronto Life, July

Sarah Milroy, ‘A Tale of Two Art Worlds’, Globe and Mail, 20 June

Judy Stoffman, ‘Whale Skeleton Emerges from Lawn Chair Closet’, The    Toronto  Star, 17 June

 

2001      

Douglas Coupland, ‘Critical Mass’, Globe and Mail, July 12

Chris Brayshaw, ‘Myfanwy MacLeod’, C Magazine, Winter

Barbara Fischer, ‘Smoke and Mirrors’, Universal Pictures 3, Poster Catalogue

Kenneth Hayes, ‘Universal Pictures 3 At The Blackwood Gallery’, Mix, Winter

Robin Laurence, ‘The World According to Myfanwy Macleod’, Globe and Mail, 3 November

Trevor Mahovsky, ‘Radical, Bureaucratic, Melancholic, Schizophrenic: Texts as Community, Canadian Art, Summer Issue

Marina Roy, These Days, Last Call, Fall

Michael Scott, ‘Art of Global Importance’, Vancouver Sun, 5 March

Reid Shier, ‘Miss Moonshine’, Exhibition Essay, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver

Michael Turner, These Days, Mix, Fall

Jessica Wyman, ‘Review: Universal Pictures 3’, C Magazine, Winter

 

2000      

Christopher Brayshaw, ‘Happy Home’, Canadian Art, Fall

Christopher Brayshaw, ‘Curator’s Words Undermine Cartoon and TV Inspired Work’, The Vancouver Courier, 19 September

Liz Hodgson, On Location: Public Art for the New Millennium, The Vancouver Sun, 6 July, 

Robin Laurence, ‘Scary Mascots, Super Art’, The Georgia Straight, 22 June

 

1999      

Peter Birnie, ‘Shadbolt’s Gifts Honour Local Artists’, The Vancouver Sun, 24 March

Blake Gopnik, ‘Crossing the Line Between Past, Future’, The Globe and Mail, 26 October

Robin Laurence, ‘Young Artists Cull Pop Culture Kitsch’, The Georgia Straight, 24 September

Michael Scott, ‘Pop Culture through the Camera’s Eye’, The Vancouver Sun, 16 September

Myfanwy Warhurst, ‘Searching for Signs of Life’, The Age, 14 May

 

1998      

Robin Laurence, ‘Slacker Generation Artists Take Out the Pop Culture Trash’, The Georgia Straight, 5 March

Ken Lum, ‘Six New Vancouver Modern’, Canadian Art, Summer

Lisa Gabrielle Mark, ‘Letter from Toronto’, C Magazine, Winter

Sarah Milroy, ‘An Eyeful of Irony’, The Globe and Mail, 14 February

Michael Scott, ‘Little to Show from 6 New Artists’, The Vancouver Sun, 21 February

Andrew Zealley, ‘Home Alone’, Extra! 8 October

 

1997      

Marilu Knode, ‘New Vancouver Art: Deliberately Pushy’, Art/Text, November

Marilu Knode, ‘Oh Canada!’ Aorta (Seattle), January - February

Judith Mastai, ‘The Elevation of BC Art’, C Magazine, February – April

Charlotte Townsend-Gault, ‘Topographies: Aspects of Recent BC Art’, Canadian Art, Spring

 

1996      

Jennifer Blair, ‘The Fountainheads’. Artichoke Magazine, Spring

Robert Everett-Green, ‘Gallery Hopping Takes on a Whole New Dimension’, The Globe and Mail, 7 November

Robin Laurence, ‘Exhibit an Exercise in Inclusiveness’, The Georgia Straight, 31 October

Sarah Milroy, ‘Primeval Meets Postmodern in BC Show’, The Globe and Mail, 28 September

Michael Scott, ‘BC Artists Emerge in Topographies’, The Vancouver Sun, 29 September

 

1994      

Phil McCrum And Reid Shier, ‘Just Looking’, Boo Magazine,