Lot 6
TONY BLOOM
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Tony Bloom was born in Tokyo, Japan and lived in Washington, D.C., and Paris, before settling in Canmore, B.C. in 1970. Through his art, he found that he could create objects and notations that allowed him to convey what was meaningful to him. He studied musical composition at the Banff School of Fine Arts in 1970. Wanting to create a flute out of clay, he signed up for a pottery course and soon realized that flutes were a challenge to make out of clay (some of his clay instruments can be found at the Canadian Museum of Civilization). He grew to love the material and processes and only realized ten years into it that he now had a career, a business and his life’s work. In the mid-1980’s, Bloom started to work with bronze, discovering that, although this material offered different qualities to clay, techniques for each could be overlaid into the other.
In 2011, Bloom was commissioned to produce a major piece of art for the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium and in 2013, a recently opened exhibition entitled “Landbuoys” is at the Whyte Museum in Banff, AB . He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Province of Alberta Achievement Award (1988) and the Canada Council Award (1984, 1987, 1997), and is co-founder of Stonecrop Studios in Canmore, Alberta, where he continues to create his artwork.