Ryan Marsh Fairweather
Although born in Calgary, Ryan Marsh Fairweather spent much of his early life living in Houston, London, Aberdeen, and Dubai. After earning his B.F.A. in Glass from the Alberta College of Art + Design (2005), he co-founded the Calgary arts collective Bee Kingdom, a garage-based hot glass studio. Fairweather works in glass and graphic art to create works reflecting his interests in anime, 1980s video games, designer toy culture, “cute culture,” yoga (which he teaches), and Hindu mythology and religion. These subjects figure to greater or lesser degrees in his “Weathermachines Universe,” a story-world about post-human robots who create a utopia of balance and “cuteness.” One denizen of his Weatherverse is the sculpture “Joybear,” which is intended to embody play and happiness with its sandblasted and oiled soft matte finish.
Fairweather’s Bee Kingdom hosts corporate team-building events such as “An Evening with Hot Glass” in which up to fifteen people witness glass blowing, and teaches two-hour glass blowing classes for a range of skill levels. Fairweather has mounted group exhibitions of his colourful, cheerful glass creations and graphic art in Calgary, the U.S., Germany, Greece, Turkey, and South Korea; his works live in private collections in Calgary, San Francisco, Cambridge, Amsterdam, Venice, Berlin, Munich, and Düsseldorf.
Fairweather’s Bee Kingdom hosts corporate team-building events such as “An Evening with Hot Glass” in which up to fifteen people witness glass blowing, and teaches two-hour glass blowing classes for a range of skill levels. Fairweather has mounted group exhibitions of his colourful, cheerful glass creations and graphic art in Calgary, the U.S., Germany, Greece, Turkey, and South Korea; his works live in private collections in Calgary, San Francisco, Cambridge, Amsterdam, Venice, Berlin, Munich, and Düsseldorf.