Trevor Gould: Darwin's Nose

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Montreal-based artist Trevor Gould presents a series of recent watercolours, sculptures and videos in this exhibition entitled Darwin's Nose. The reference to the famous 19th century English naturalist draws, in part, upon the allegorical convention of Western painting traditions that place animals in human contexts. Thus, Gould's artistic concern is: "the relationship of ideas in human/animal relationships, in a kind of interspecies interaction in the format of an exhibition." Among the works to be featured at the Dunlop is a 2011 video piece shot at the Metro Toronto Zoo, which features an orangutan interacting with a faux Modernist sculpture created by Gould.

Trevor Gould was born in Johannesburg and studied in South Africa, as well as Canada. He has made Montreal his home since the early 1990s and teaches sculpture at Concordia University. In 1998 the Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal organized a major touring exhibition of his work entitled Posing for the Public. Over the past decade, Gould's art has been featured at public galleries across Canada and he exhibits on a regular basis in Europe. Among the numerous permanent collections retaining Gould's work are the Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal, the Gaia Cuneo Foundation in Italy, the Art Gallery of Ottawa, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, Montreal and private holdings in Germany, France and the United States.

Trevor Gould, Darwin's Nose (Installation View), 2012. Photo by Trevor Hopkin.