Heather Carroll

Heather Carroll
Born
Manchester, England, UK
NationalityCanadian / British
EducationUniversity of Toronto
Websitehttps://www.stonedreams.org/
Heather Carroll (2023)

Heather Carroll is a Canadian/British multi-disciplinary artist who works primarily with engravings, relief printing, monotype, stone sculpting, serigraphy, and weaving.[1]

She also works in the design, organization, and conducting of creative workshops for children and adults.[2]

Biography

Born in Manchester, England, UK in 1956 to Canadian and Scottish parents, Heather Carroll is a Kablunangajuk[2] of Inuit, Innu, Scottish, and other European origin.  In 1977, she completed her Bachelor of Arts degree at the School of Fine Arts at the University of Toronto.[2]  From 1983 to 1988, she pursued a career as a graphic artist and illustrator in Barbados with her company, Lâché, during which time she also gave courses in advertising design at the Barbados Community College.  In 1988, she moved to Brussels, Belgium where she worked as a freelance graphic artist. In 1989, she moved to Canada where she began her work in engravings in her studio in Montreal, Quebec. In 1990, Heather Carroll relocated to Luxembourg where she has continued with her artwork and career as a multi-disciplinary artist, art instructor and lecturer.

Artwork

She has been based in Luxembourg since 2000. She has exhibited in Luxembourg, Belgium, France, Germany, the Caribbean, Canada, the United States and China.

Her work focuses on the land of her ancestors and family, animals, the environment and the problems that threaten to change their lives forever.[1]

She has monumental sculptures located throughout Luxembourg and France and has regularly participated in sculpture symposiums from 2004, 2005, and 2008 in Luxembourg and 2007 in Rodemack, France. Her last symposiums took place in Lunéville, France in May 2013 and in Luxembourg in August of the same year.[2]

Carroll was commissioned by Canada's ambassador to the Netherlands to create a 5-tonne, 3.5-meter Inukshuk. This sculpture was donated to the International Criminal Court in The Hague and inaugurated on 7 March 2018.[3] She was also commissioned by the Canadian Embassy to create an Inukshuk for the city of Lahr, Germany for Canada's 150th anniversary, which is on display on the square in front of the city's train station.[4][5]

Public Sculptures

Title Year Location City Country GPS Coordinates
"Dei Glecklechen Hieschen" ("The Happy Rabbit") 2006 Ecole Préscolaire (Pre-School) Ermsdorf Luxembourg 49.830598, 6.215267
"Creatures in the Wood" 2006 Am Brill Sentier Nature

(Start of walk located at 25 Rue de la Forêt,

Map of path available here.)[6]

Schifflange Luxembourg 49.502629, 6.008231
"Inukshuk" 2018 Lahr Train Station Lahr Germany 48.340050, 7.836055
"Inukshuk" 2018 International Criminal Court The Hague Netherlands 52.105849, 4.319767
"The Fallen" 2017 Canadian Passchendaele Memorial Garden Zonnebeke Belgium 50.870000, 2.990153
"Le Fossile" ("The Fossil") 3 Bunte Wee Ermsdorf Luxembourg 49.830466, 6.217894
"La Licorne" ("The Unicorn") 13 Rue Général de Gaulle Cattenom France 49.406058, 6.241608
"Anuri" ("The Wind") 24 Rue de la Gare Troisvierges Luxembourg 50.119113, 5.992234

Main exhibitions

Year Exhibition City Country
2014-2015 Stonedreams, Mierscher Kulturhaus Mersch Luxembourg
2012-2014 29e, 30e, 31e Rencontre internationale de sculpture Hettange-Grande France
2014 Plus Semblable que Différents, échange culturel Luxembourg-Turquie, abbaye de Neumünster Neumünster Luxembourg
2013 Tuttukinuk, exposition personelle, Ute’s Galerie & Studio Schrondweiler Luxembourg
2013 Symposium de la Sculpture, Gare Art Festival Luxembourg City Luxembourg
2013 National Aboriginal Fashion Week, défilé de mode Regina, Saskatchewan Canada
2013 Symposium de la Sculpture Lunéville France
2012 Wege zu Kunst & Religion, Blaue Galerie Schönecken Germany
2010 Ecrire avec la Pierre, La Sculpture Inuit de Baker Lake, Installation Inukshuk, Bibliotheca Wittockiana Brussels Belgium
2009 Guanlan Print Festival Shenzhen China
2008 Lectures et Sculptures du Canada, Université Libre de Bruxelles Brussels Belgium
2007 Lancaster Great House – Portes Ouvertes, exposition collective St. James Parish Barbados
2007 Sculpture dans la Rue, Sculpture monumentale Rodemack France
2005 Exposition Carroll, Parlement européen Strasbourg France
2005 Europa tot in uw bed, Infopunt Europa Antwerp Belgium
2004 Femmes et Fleurs, Floating World Gallery Tulsa, Oklahoma USA
2002 « Strictly Sculpture », Gelabert Studio Gallery New York USA

References

  1. ^ a b "Heather Carroll Statement and biography on CULTUREINSIDE". www.cultureinside.com. Retrieved 2019-02-15.
  2. ^ a b c d Fulton-Anderson, Deborah (8 July 2007). "Stone Whisperer" (PDF). IKL (Iinterkulturell). Retrieved 15 February 2019.
  3. ^ "Canada Justice Minister and ICC President unveil artwork donation to International Criminal Court". www.icc-cpi.int. Retrieved 2019-02-15.
  4. ^ Lahr, Stadt. "Stadt Lahr - Ein Inukshuk für Lahr". Stadt Lahr - Ein Inukshuk für Lahr (in German). Retrieved 2019-02-15.
  5. ^ Springmann, Michael (2018-07-02). "Ein Inukshuk für Lahr • Die Springmänner". Die Springmänner (in German). Retrieved 2019-02-15.
  6. ^ "Circuit pédestre Schifflange". www.visitluxembourg.com (in French). Archived from the original on September 21, 2015. Retrieved 2019-02-24.