The Alberta Foundation for the Arts travelling exhibition ‘Montageries’ is at the Fort Macleod Allied Arts Gallery until Aug. 14.
The work of an Alberta artist who was employed for a time as a miner in the Crowsnest Pass is part of a new exhibition in Fort Macleod.
Luke Lindoe’s art is part of Menageries, a new exhibition at the Fort Macleod Allied Arts Gallery.
Montageries is on loan to Allied Arts by the Alberta Foundation of the Arts.
Montageries is made up of 19 works of art from the more than 8,000 objects of visual art in the Alberta Foundation for the Arts permanent collection.
Lindoe tried homesteading at the age of 20 but gave that up after barely making it through the winter of 1933.
Lindoe jumped a freight train to Coleman where he joined his father working the mines.
Lindoe gave up mining to study at the Department of the Provincial Institute of Art and Technology, which is today known as the Alberta University of the Arts.
Lindoe was a ceramic instructor at the art institute from 1947-’57 and operated a business in Calgary called Lindoe Studios, which later became Ceramic Arts.
Lindoe created 13 large-scale architectural commissions during his career.
One of those commissions, Southern Alberta Petroglyphs, is displayed at the Alberta Provincial Museum and Archives in Edmonton.
Lindoe moved to Medicine Hat where in 1964 he opened Plainsman Clays, which is still in operation today selling clay to potters and ceramic artists in Canada and the U.S.
In addition to his work in ceramics, Lindoe painted Alberta prairie scenes with oils and watercolour paints.
The exhibition also includes work by Kay Angiliss, Carol Breen, Chris Cran, Mark Dicey, Robert Dmytruk, John K. Esler, Les Graff, John Hall, Alex Janvier, Brenda Jones-Smith, George Littlechild, Harry Klyooka, Janet Mitchell, Marion Nicoll, Katie Ohe, John Snow, Kenneth Sturdy and Wendy Toogood.
The Alberta Foundation for the Arts established its travelling exhibition program in 1980
Montageries will be on display until Wednesday, Aug. 14 at the Fort Macleod Allied Arts Gallery at 2113 Second Ave.
The gallery is open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Thursday.
