Memorable Manitobans: Cliff Eyland (1954-2020)

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Cliff Eyland
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Artist, professor.

Born at Halifax, Nova Scotia in November 1954, his childhood was spent in Dartmouth. He came to Winnipeg in August 1994 and worked as a painter in the School of Art at the University of Manitoba from 1998 to 2013, when he retired due to ill health. He was also director of the art school gallery, Gallery One One One, from 1998 to 2010.

After leaving the university, he continued to host exhibitions at a small gallery in his studio in the Silpit Building up through 2018. He was known for his works of hundreds of small card-size paintings and drawings that covered a wall in the Millennium Library as well as in a public library at Halifax.

He died at Winnipeg on 16 May 2020. His work is the subject of a retrospective, from January to May 2022, at the Winnipeg Art Gallery.

Sources:

Arts community mourns death of Winnipeg's Cliff Eyland, known for transforming libraries with tiny paintings,” CBC News, 16 May 2020.

We thank Pam Perkins for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 13 January 2022

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