History & CV
Veronica de Nogales Leprevost, born in Barcelona, Spain in 1970, and Edwin Timothy Dam born in
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada in the same year, did not meet until an exhibition in 1997 with the Generalitat de
Barcelona. Discovering that they shared and intense curiosity for life, for nature and for sculpting the relation
of man within it, they married and soon after began exhibiting their works together. Naturally, over a short
while, it became increasingly difficult to distinguish the works of one from the other...Wishing never to promote
a separation of what they considered a singular union, they began to sculpt together, cosigning each work they
created. Now, residing in Canada, they continue to work intensely together between both countries of birth.
Works on Public Display and Permanent Public Monuments/ Obras Publicas
"El Espirutu del Bosque" -- Urus, Spain -- 1999
"Words Towards Poesia" -- Bristol College, Fall River, MA, USA, 2001
"The Wandering Brute" -- Lay Sculpture Park, St. Louis University, Louisiana, MO, USA, 2001
"Meditations over a Chair" -- Lay Sculpture Park, Stl Louis University, Louisiana, MO, USA, 2002
"The Poet" -- Hoke Library, Jensen Beach, Florida, USA, 2002
"The Sculptor's Palette" -- Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2003
"The Johnny Lombardi Memorial Piazza" -- 2004-- Public Sculptures and Urban Design
Little Italy, Toronto, Canada
"Rafaga--Unleashed" -- 2004 -- Hamilton Waterfront Trust, Pier 8, Hamilton, ON, Canada
"Al Purdy -- Voice of the Land" -- in progress -- 2008 Queen's Park, Toronto, Canada
"On the Shoulders of Giants" -- June 2006 -- DCCBR University of Toronto, On, Canada
"George F. Morris Memorial" -- Aug. 2004 -- Chatham Kent Public Hospital, Chatham, ON
"The Passion-- The 14 Stations of the Cross" --Aug. 2004 -- St. Elizabeth Spiritual Park, Hamilton, ON, Canada
"Spirit of Discovery " -- July 2005 -- DCCBR -- University of Toronto -- Toronto, ON, Canada
"Spirit of the Woods" -- Fountain Sculpture -- June 2006 -- Mickel Park -- Ridgetown, ON, Canada
"Echoes of the Iron Horse" -- Sculpture and Landscape Design 2007-- Centre Courtyard, Highgate, ON, Canada
"The Long Ascent" -- June 2007 -- Victoria Park, NorthVancouver, B.C., Canada
"Pincellades del Temps" -- Sitges, Spain, Dec. 2007
"The Ride" -- Calgary Stampede Sculpture -- 2008 -- Calgary, AB, Canada
"Courage and Thunder" -- Calgary Stampede -- 2008 -- Calgary, AB, Canada
"Monument to the Sisters of St. Joseph"-- 2009 CK Health Alliance -- Chatham, ON, Canada
"Plaza America" -- Andorra -- in progress -- Spring 2010
Exposicions/Exposiciones/Exhibitions/Expositions (Individual*)
2009 Koolan Fine Arts, Stratford, ON, Canada
2008 Agora, Sitges, Spain
2007 Galeria Tuset, Barcelona, Spain
2007 Agora, Sitges, Spain
2006 Galeria Tuset, Barcelona, Spain
2006 Agora, Sitges, Spain
2005 Galeria Tuset, Barcelona, Spain
2005 Agora, Sitges, Spain
2004 Galeria Tuset, Barcelona, Spain
2004 Peterson Fine Art, Toronto, ON, Canada
2004 Ann Arbour Art Fair, Ann Arbour, MI, USA
2004 Square One, Windsor, ON, Canada
2003 Galeria Tuset, Barcelona, Spain
2003 Peterson Fin Art, Toronto, ON, Canada
2003 Mirari Gallery, Windsor, ON, Canada
2002 ACWR Gallery, Windsor, ON, Canada *
2002 Mirari Gallery, Windsor, ON, Canada
2002 Peterson Fine Art, Toronto, ON, Canada
2002 Gevik Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
2002 Art-in-Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
2002 Micheal Gibson Gallery, London, ON, Canada
2002 Galeria Tuset, Barcelona, Spain
2002 Jonathon Bancroft Gallery, London, ON, Canada
2002 Figuracio 2002, Galeria Tuset, Barcelona, Spain
2001 "The Sculptor's Palette", Peterson Fine Art, Toronto, ON, Canada *
2001 "The Spell of the Sensuous" Art-in-Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada *
2001 Gevik Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
2001 Jonathon Bancroft Gallery, London, ON, Canada
2001 Peterson Fine Art, Toronto, ON, Canada
2001 TIAF, Toronto, ON, Canada
2001 Jordan Art Gallery, Jordan, ON, Canada
2001 Galeria Tuset, Barcelona, Spain
2001 ACWR Gallery, Windsor, ON, Canada
2000 "Recent Works", Classic Art Gallery, Stratford, ON, Canada
2000 Gevik Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
2000 Peterson Fine Art, Toronto, ON, Canada
2000 Micheal Gibson Gallery, London, ON, Canada
2000 The Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, ON, Canada
2000 "Power", Art-in-Guelph, Guelph, ON. Canada
2000 "Enchantment", WPL, Windsor, ON, Canada
2000 The Alley Cat Gallery, Chatham, ON, Canada
2000 The Carousel Gallery, Ridgetown, ON, Canada
2000 Galeria Granero, Brussels, Belgium
2000 Figuracio 2000-2001, Galeria Tuset, Barcelona, Spain
2000 Fira Internacional Art Expo, Barcelona, Spain
2000 25 Artistes Joves, Madrid, Spain
1999 "Palpitaciones desnudas", Galeria Tuset, Barcelona, Spain*
1999 Nou Arts, Club 9D, Barcelona, Spain
1999 Galeria d'art Mar, Barcelona, Spain
1999 Fira Internacional Art Expo, Barcelona, Spain
1999 "Sutilezas" Sala d'Art Jove de la Generalitat" Barcelona, Spain
1999 Galeria Al Vent, Barcelona, Spain
1999 Ajuntamiento de Sitges, Sitges, Spain
1999 Jeunes Talents Catalans, Espace Miro, Maison de la Catalogne, Paris, France
1999 "La Figura Humana" Centre Civic Besos, Barcelona, Spain
1999 Galeria Granero, Brussels, Belgium
1998 "De danza, Tierra, y Aire", Rincon Artistico, Barcelona, Spain*
1998 Real Circulo Artistico, Barcelona, Spain
1998 Fira Internacional Art Expo, Barcelona, Spain
1997 "De Cuerpos y Almas" Univesidad de Bellas Artes de Barcelona, Spain*
1997 "De Corpore" Real Academia de Bones Lletres, Barcelona, Spain
1997 "De Cuerpos y Almas", Sala de Arte Lola Anglada, Barcelona, Spain*
1996 Real Circulo Artistico, Barcelona, Spain
1995 "Encuentros", Universidad de Bellas Artes" Barcelona, Spain
1994 Real Circulo Artistico, Barcelona, Spain
1992 Club Deportiva de Encamp, Andorra
Estudios/Studies
B.F.A. Universidad de Bellas Artes de Barcelona, Spain
B.A. Philosophy and Literature, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI, USA
Theory and Criticism, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Premis/Premios/Prizes/Prix/Honors
2009 Finalist--2nd Place--World--Wide Design Competion for the World Health Organization,
SmallPox Eradication Monument -- RefleX Variola
2006 Drawing/Design cover 326 page Handbook for the World Organization against Torture (OMCT)
The European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms --Geneva
2006 Solo Queen's Park Sculpture Award, Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario
2000 First Commission Award, Brown Sculpture Court, Bristol College, Fall River, MA, USA
1999 First Prize in Sculpture, Nou Arts, Club 9D, Barcelona, Spain
1998 2nd Prize in Sculpture, 11th Annual Pere Jou Competition, Sitges, Spain
Docencia/Teaching/Symposiums
1993-1996 Sculpture and Painting in Aid Centre for Drug Dependents, Barcelona, Spain
1998 Creativity Workshops for Children, Barcelona, Spain
1995-2000 Sculpture Workshops in a The Centre of Mental Health, Barcelona, Spain
2001 "Expressions" Sculpture Symposium -- Thames Art Gallery and Cultural Centre, Chatham, ON, Canada
2003-2006 Advisory Board -- Thames School of Art -- St. Clair College, Chatham, ON, Canada
History and Curriculum Vitae
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Veronica de Nogales Leprevost was born in Barcelona, Spain in
1970. Her intense interest in art an in nature began at an early age,
manifesting itself in drawings and paintings of nature and of wildlife,
which took her as far as the snowy wooded regions of Sweden. In 1988,
in the University of Bellas Artes of Barcelona, she began to undergo an
anatomical shift towards the study of human body movement, rendered
not only through two-dimensional mediums of painting, etching and
drawing, but also through the third and fourth dimensions of sculpture
and of dance. Recognizing her talent, the Provincial Gallery of
Catalunya, Spain offered her a solo sculpture exhibition, first in Spain,
and soon after honoured her works in Paris. Her works were soon taken
on by galleries in Spain and Brussels.
Edwin Timothy Dam, of Dutch and Friesian descent and native of
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada began his sculptural interest and
anatomical studies at McMaster University. Two years later he
transferred to Calvin College of Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he
underwent a polar shift in his studies to art, philosophy and literature.
After graduation, he passed a short stint in creative writing for the
Canadian magazine industry, before moving to Vancouver, B.C. where
he joined a clay studio. It was here while self employed in the trades
that he began to experiment with larger structures of mixed medium,
concrete, steel, wood and aluminum. But it was his move to Barcelona
which was monumental where during an exhbition he met Veronica.
With her encouragement, he entered and placed second in the Pere
Jou Sculpture Competition in Sitges, Spain, beginning he career as
sculptor.
Married after only eight months, they began to exhibit together, and
then through the combination of strengths and passions, began to
create together. Their joint works took on a new aurora and attracted
the attention both of prominent galleries in Spain and of the media.
Combining the abstract with the figuative, and iron with bronze, their
works increased in magnitude and in power. Now all works are done
together, signed under the unified name Dam de Nogales. Together
in the winter of 1999, they erected their first permanent outdoor
monument El Espiritue del Bosque in Urus, a mountainous pueblo in
the north of Spain. Later, that same year, Metamorphosis I and
Metamorphosis II went on public display in Barcelona.
Having sunk roots in Spain and the European art world, their move and
immigration to Canada, and taking of residence in southern Ontario,
though unexpected was not without reason. Over and above their
affinity to dance, literature, music and architecture,their intense
curiosity in nature, apparent in all of their works, almost predicted
settlement in a more tranquil area.
In Septermber of 2001, they erected "Words Towards Poesia", a
monumental work of bronze and steel, on the grounds of Bristol College,
Fall River, Massachusetts. In October and January, they permanently
installed "The Wandering Brute" and "Meditations over a Chair" on the
grounds of the Lay Sculpture Park of Louisiana, Missouri. "The
Sculptor's Palette" now graces Hazelton street in the famous Yorkville of
Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In November of 2002, "The Poet",
commissioned by Martin County, FL, was installed in front of the new
Hoke Library, of Jensen Beach, Florida, USA.
2003 and 2004 saw the Canadian unveilings of the Johnny Lombardi
Memorial Sculpture, in Little Italy, Toronto, and of Rafaga--Unleashed
at Pier 8 of the Hamilton Waterfront, Hamilton, Ontario, and of the
George F. Morris Memorial Sculpture, in Chatham , Ontario, and of the
Passion-- 14 Stations of the Cross in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
2005-2006 saw the Unveilings of The Spirit of Discovery in Toronto,
Ontario and "On the Shoulders of Giants" at the University of Toronto
as wekk as "Spirit of the Woods" in Ridgetown, Ontario.
2007 was celebrated the year of the Horse as the sculptors dedicated
themselves to three equestrian based works, "Echoes of the Iron Horse"
for the main square of Highgate, Ontario, "The Long Ascent" for
Victoria Park of North Vancouver, and a two works for the Calgary
Stampede, Calgary, AB, installed in 2008. December of 2007, the
sculptors through their studio in Spain unveilled "Pincellades del
temps" in Sitges, Spain.
2008 also saw the one tonne monumental memorial to late poet Al
Purdy, Voice of the Land, installed in Queen's Park, next to the
Parliamentary Buildings, in Toronto, Ontario.
Presently the sculptors work between both countries of birth, with a
studio both in Belltall, Catlunya, Spain, and in Highgate, Ontario,
Canada. In 2009, the sculptors installed a work dedicated to the
Sisters of St. Joseph, upon the grounds of the Chatham General
Hospital. For 2010, another Urban Design and sculpture will be
executed for the country of Andorra.
fin
Sitges, Spain, 2007 -- L'Eco -- Sitges, Spain