Artist Info
Darrell Colyer
Darrell Colyer has lived in various parts of Canada, including the Northwest Territories and the Yukon Territory, where, in Whitehorse, he began to exhibit his paintings in 1965. He spent two summers on sketching trips with A.Y. Jackson and M. Haycock before moving to Edmonton in 1970 to study Fine Arts at the University of Alberta. He earned a BFA and worked for a year as a technician in the sculpture studio, where he began producing sculptures inspired by antique machinery and three dimensional abstraction. He received a Masters of Visual Arts from the University of Alberta in 1978.
The University of Alberta galleries have shown his work, and Sculpture in Wood ran at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery from December 1981 - January 1982. In 2012, Colyer designed a fence and grate for the City of St. Albert’s municipal storm water Outfall No. 6 as part of an initiative to integrate public works and public art. The fence and grate resemble bulrushes and the flowing water of the Sturgeon River, and they draw attention to the impact on water quality made by the outfall’s grit interceptor.
