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Gather Listen Hear: Graphic Score-Making Workshop

'Dawn Chorus, Bow Valley (score)' by Lou Sheppard

Lou Sheppard, Dawn Chorus, Bow Valley (score) (2024), digital drawing, commissioned by Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.

Join artist Lou Sheppard for a hands-on workshop on the development of graphic scores, where imagery is used in place of other forms of musical notation. Participants will be invited to learn about the artist’s approach to this form of score, particularly in relation to his commissioned work, Dawn Chorus, Evensong (Bow River Valley) presented by Walter Phillips Gallery in the Shaw Amphitheatre from August 9 – September 2, 2024. The workshop will then shift to time for participants to draw or make their own graphic scores using provided materials. No formal musical or artistic experience is required.

Walter Phillips Gallery would like to acknowledge the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Government of Canada, and Government of Alberta.

 

Biography

Lou Sheppard

Lou Sheppard works in interdisciplinary audio, performance and installation-based practices. He has performed and exhibited across Canada, notably at The Art Gallery of York University; The Confederation Centre for the Arts, Charlottetown; and at Plug-In ICA, Winnipeg; as part of the first Toronto Biennial; as well as internationally at Kumu Kunstimuuseum, Estonia; in the Antarctic Biennial, and at Titanik Gallery, Finland. Lou has participated in numerous residencies, including the International Studio Curatorial Program, Brooklyn; La Cité des Arts, Paris; and as participant and faculty at Banff Centre. He has been longlisted for the Sobey Art Award in 2018, 2020 and 2021, and was the winner of the Hnatyshyn Foundation Emerging Atlantic Artist Residency in 2017. Lou is a settler on the traditional and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq in Mi’kma’ki/Nova Scotia.