Life on Mars

For Dave Hind, the title ”thingmaker” is an unencumbered open-ended designation. This allows Hind to move freely between creating functional object, sculptures, two dimensional works and musical instruments. The artist finds his inspiration within the debris of reclaimed waste metals and the discarded bio-products of industry, making beauty from abandoned and defective products.
This series of aluminum painting makes use of reclaimed metal siding which is cut, carved and layered into a mosaic of texture and colour. The Sacred Arboreal Portrait Project (SAPP) is an on going body of work which aims at historically documenting specific trees that share their space with the manufactured cityscape. It is that which happens at the meeting of the natural and the constructed that Hind examines.
Hind lives in Brantford, Ontario with his sweetheart Kira and their two children, Tula and Esme.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2006

Field Study – Terase Gallery, Thornbury, ON

South – West Hamilton Studio Tour, Hamilton, ON

2004

Cluster and Glom – Carnegie Gallery, Dundas, ON

2002

Thingmaker Music – Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON

Entitled – Burlington Art Centre, Burlington, ON

Entitled – University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON

2001

Under the Bloom of the Moon – The Garden Studio, Lowville, ON

2000

Canada Blooms, Toronto, ON

1999

One of a Kind Show, Toronto, ON

Milton Studio Tour, Lowville, ON

1998

Sourcing the Fire – Regional Arts Council, Hamilton, ON

1997

Tree Stumps & Dump Junk – Carnegie Gallery, Dundas, ON

1996

Festival of Friends – Gage Park, Hamilton, ON

The Mums Show – Gage Park, Hamilton, ON

Royal Winter Fair – Exhibition Place, Toronto, ON

1995

Industrial Design for Continuing Consumption – Arts on King, Toronto, ON

1994

The Works Festival, Edmonton, AB and Victoria, BC

1993

Rhythmic Dissonance – N.F. Doyle Gallery, Toronto, ON

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007

Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Toronto, ON

2006

Two Degrees of Separation – University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON

2005

The Release –  Royal Botanical Gardens, Burlington, ON

The Group of Seven Revisited – Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge, ON

2004

Time Has Three Dimensions – Museum London, London, ON

2000

Arch-Zone 6B – Hamilton Artist Inc., Hamilton, ON

1999

Out of the Studio – Faculty Show: White Mountain Academy, Elliot Lake, ON

1998

Future Wave – Menken Gallery, Kanazawa, Japan

1998

Exile on James Street – Bank of Montreal Building, Hamilton, ON

1997

Festival of Friends – Gage Park, Hamilton, ON

Public Hanging – Eaton Centre, Hamilton, ON

1996

The Garden Show – Gibson Gallery, London, ON

Sins & Lovers – Gibson Gallery, London, ON

1995

Lollapalooza Music Festival, Barrie, ON

1994

Look 94 – Gallery Lambton, Sarnia, ON

Gathering – Under the Bridge, London, ON

Merge – Forest City Gallery, London, ON

1993

Skin & Steel – Halo Club, London, ON

Performance Festival – Forest City Gallery, London, ON

Urban Animals – Guild House Gallery, St. Thomas, ON

1992

Arted on Things and the Non-Object – Artist’s Studio, St. Thomas, ON

Open Doors – Guild house Gallery, St. Thomas, ON