Context (References)
Karen Duffek (1989)Lyle Wilson: When worlds collide" UBC Museum of Anthropology Museum Note No. 28.
lncludes artist's background and details on Wilson's experimental approach.
Copy in Museum History File
Event Date 1989
Author: rachel hand

Context (Acquisition Details)
Presented by The Art Fund and the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. An acquisition project to build a collection of modern and contemporary work on paper from Australia, Canada and South Africa was undertaken over 2011-13 with the support of a grant under The Art Fund's RENEW programme. The collection was developed with the expert advice and generous assistance of Annie Coombes and Norman Vorano in relation to South African and Inuit artists respectively. Khadija Carroll, Anita Herle and Diana Wood Conroy also contributed to the selection process.
Event Date 2014
Author: rachel hand

Context (Production / use)
Lyle Wilson (1955 -) is a Haisla artist from Kitamaat village in British Columbia, Canada. He graduated with a diploma in printmaking from the Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver and soon developed a strong individual style. He worked for several years as an Artist in Residence at the University of British Museum of Anthropology, renown for its Northwest collections and innovative approach to display. He has had several solo exhibitions in Canada, and has produced major commissions for Canadian and international institutions.
One of his earlier works, 'Ode to Billy Holm ... Lalooska. Duane Pasco and Jonathan Livingston Seagull' (1980) is a homage to Bill Holm, the outstanding and influential Northwest Coast art historian who studied and codified principles of NWC design in Northwest Coast Indian Art: An Analysis of Form (1965). The artwork is also a satirical reflection on the authority of non-Native scholars and the status of First National people in Canada. An alternative perspective is suggested by a reversed image of Holm's book cover which has been incorporated into the print but turned around in typical NWC trickster fashion. The print includes a facsimile of the artist's government Indian Status card. A masked figure walks a fine line that separates these images.

Event Date 9/4/2014
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
'Ode to Billy Holm... Lalooska Duane Pasco... & Johnathon Livingston Seagull'. Etching and lithograph by Lyle Wilson, 1980. Edition: Artist's proof (Remarque 1/1) Inscribed, signed and dated by the artist.
With black string across the top of the print and leaves embedded into the paper. Creases in paper, which appear part of the original process of manufacturing the paper.
Event Date 9/4/2014
Author: maa

Conservation (Assessment Only)
CON.2023.5586 | Assessment Only
Event Date 27/1/2023
Author: Kirstie French

Loan (Exhibition)
Sainsbury Centre, University of East Anglia, 11/3/2023 to 30/7/2023, Art and image on the Pacific Northwest Coast [working title]

Event Date 11/3/2023
Author: rachel hand