Artist

Magor, Liz

Title

Military Through the Ages

Technique

photographic print

Date

1996

Dimensions

22.5cm height x 23cm width

Type

photograph

Accession Number

1996.2

Owner

City of Burnaby

Collection

Permanent Collection

"Purchased with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts Acquisition Assistance program/Oeuvre achetée avec l'aide du programme d'aide aux acquisitions du Conseil des Arts du Canada".

Liz Magor was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1948. She is currently based in Vancouver. Magor studied at UBC from 1966-1968, and Parson’s School of Design in New York from 1968-1970. She completed her diploma at the Vancouver School of Art in 1971. Magor’s work explores emplacement and the idea of refuge in the context of Canadian wilderness. She won the Governor General’s Visual Arts Award in 2001 and the sixth annual Audain Prize in 2009 for lifetime achievement in visual art. Magor has influenced countless students through her teaching appointments at the Ontario College of Art and Design, the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, the University of British Columbia and the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. She currently lives and works in Vancouver, BC.