PRESS
2022
Janet Smith, Myfanwy MacLeod’s new installation makes satirical, pop-culture nod to the holiday blues, Stir, 13 December
2020
Biennale Gherdëina 7: – a breath? a name? – the ways of worldmaking, E-flux, 28 July
2018
Janet Smith, Myfanwy MacLeod’s public artwork The Birds flies back to Olympic Village, Georgia Straight, 14 August
Kevin Smith, City thinking about how to safeguard The Birds in Olympic Village, The Vancouver Sun, 4 October
Kevin Smith, Art Seen: Contemporary Art Gallery curates new program in Canada House, London, The Vancouver Sun, 22 February
2017
Christine Beyleveldt, Polygon Gallery opens at Lonsdale Quay, Capilano Courier, 20 November
Jeremy Shepherd, Coquettish camel flirts with controversy in North Van, North Shore News, 5 October
Janet Smith, The Birds and Centennial Totem Pole set to leave for restoration, The Georgia Straight, 5 October
Kevin Griffin, The Birds to be plucked from Olympic Village for repairs, Vancouver Sun, 2 October
Leah Sandals, Hotboxing the White Cube: The Rise of Cannabis Culture in High Art, Canadian Art, 20 April
Historic B.C. camels inspire new North Vancouver statue, CBC News, 5 October
Vancouver’s giant sparrows getting much needed repairs, CBC News, 3 October
Naoibh O’Connor, ‘Olympic Village’s giant birds headed east for repairs’, Vancouver Courier, 23 November
2016
Amanda Sibert, ‘Playtime sculpture at Children’s Hospital brings fun to public art’, The Georgia Straight, 20 April
2015
Kyra Kordoski, ‘Myfanwy MacLeod: Tell Her Nothing She Tells All’, C Magazine, Summer 2015
Tyler Coburn, Myfanwy MacLeod’s Tell her Nothing She Tells All, Art-Agenda
2014
Adam Lauder, Stoics and Comedians: Humour in New Canadian Art, Canadian Art, Summer
Robin Laurence, Myfanwy MacLeod, Border Crossings, Vol. 33, no. 2: Remaking the Real (#130) p. 97-99
Michael Harris, ‘MYFANWY MACLEOD: or There and Back Again’, Galleries West, March
Robin Laurence, ‘Myfanwy MacLeod’s cultural provocation on display at the Vancouver Art Gallery’, The Georgia Straight, 20 March
Michael Turner, Sex, Drugs & Rock n’ Roll: Myfanwy MacLeod in Vancouver’, Canadian Art online, 7 May
2013
Joe Belanger, ‘On the Canvas: Former Londoner’s Idealism on Display, The London Free Press, 5 May
Bryne McLaughlin, ‘Myfanwy Macleod Revisits 1970’s London in Bittersweet Survey’, Canadian Art, 5 July
2012
Marsha Lederman, Playmate Dorothy Stratten’s Story Told in Origami, The Globe and Mail, Oct. 8
2011
Danielle Egan, Public Art Big Time, Canadian Art Magazine, Spring Issue
2010
Marsha Lederman, When Giant Sparrows Attack, The Globe and Mail, May 15
2009
Josée Drouin-Brisebois, Myfanwy Macleod: The High Art of Lowdown, Canadian Art Magazine, March 18
Kevin Griffin, Giant Sparrows Poised to Alight in Olympic Village, Vancouver Sun, 7 July
Robin Laurence, Folk Art and High Art Make Wondrously Strange Mix, The Georgia Straight, November 26
Sarah Milroy, ‘Artists in a Land of Wanderers’ The Globe And Mail, April 25
2006
Julia Dault, ‘F-Stopping: The Slide into Self-Repetition’ The National Post, January 19
Clint Burnham, ‘Artworks challenge and Intrigue,’ The Vancouver Sun, 3 June
Clint Burnham, ‘Artist crosses the frontiers between different media’, The Vancouver Sun, 2 February
Peter Culley, ‘The Ghost Whisperer’, Fillip, No. 3
Julia Dault, ‘A room of One’s Own’, The National Post, Thursday 15 June
Damian Inwood, ‘Beware the (slightly) open door’, the Province Sunday, 26, February
2006
Robin Laurence, “Micah Lexier, Myfanwy MacLeod, Andrew Reyes’, The Georgia Straight, 2 March
Monique Mouton, ‘Myfanwy MacLeod’s Where I Lived, and What I Lived For’, Woo Magazine, Vol. 4 No. 2
2005
Deborah Campbell, “Once Upon A Time”, Canadian Art Magazine, Spring Issue, Vol. 22
2004
Elke von Buhr, ‘Der Superman Effekt’, Frankfurter Rundscau, 28 December
Clint Burham. “Aperto Vancouver”, Flash Art, Vol. Xxxvii, No. 239 Nov-Dec, P. 57-59
Deborah Campbell. The New School, Vancouver Guestlive
Hans Adelbert Von Karweik, ‘Kunst unterm einfluss der Comics’, Wolsburger nachrichten, 26 November
Hans Adelbert Von Karweik, ‘Marsmannchen treffen Marchenfrosche’, Wolfsburger nachricten, 1 December
‘Kunst und Comics: Ausstellung im Schloss’, Wolfsburger Allegemeine Zietung, 26 November
Robin Laurence, Dreaming is a sound exercise in frustration, The Georgia Straight, September 23
Stuart Reid, ‘Flooring it in the Super Marketplace’, Four X Four, Durham Art Gallery, Canada
2003
Christopher Brayshaw. Security and Anxiety Post- 9/11, The Georgia Straight, June 5-12
Samir Gandesha, ‘Vancouver’, Art Papers, November-December
Wiebke Huester, ‘Da Ist Die Junge Kunst, Die Sich Der Natur Zuwendet’, Frankfurter Allegemeine Zeitung, 4 October
Michael Scott, ‘Following the Lines’, Vancouver Sun, 26 June
Michael Turner, ‘Wall and Void’, Modern Painters, Summer
2002
Paul Dale, ‘Hammertown’, Time Out, 3 October
Morgan Falconer, ‘London: Gasworks The Beachcombers’, Contemporary
Betty Ann Jordan, ‘Art’, Toronto Life, July
Sarah Milroy, ‘A Tale of Two Art Worlds’, Globe and Mail, 20 June
Judy Stoffman, ‘Whale Skeleton Emerges from Lawn Chair Closet’, The Toronto Star, 17 June
2001
Douglas Coupland, ‘Critical Mass’, Globe and Mail, July 12
Chris Brayshaw, ‘Myfanwy MacLeod’, C Magazine, Winter
Barbara Fischer, ‘Smoke and Mirrors’, Universal Pictures 3, Poster Catalogue
Kenneth Hayes, ‘Universal Pictures 3 At The Blackwood Gallery’, Mix, Winter
Robin Laurence, ‘The World According to Myfanwy Macleod’, Globe and Mail, 3 November
Trevor Mahovsky, ‘Radical, Bureaucratic, Melancholic, Schizophrenic: Texts as Community, Canadian Art, Summer Issue
Marina Roy, These Days, Last Call, Fall
Michael Scott, ‘Art of Global Importance’, Vancouver Sun, 5 March
Reid Shier, ‘Miss Moonshine’, Exhibition Essay, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
Michael Turner, These Days, Mix, Fall
Jessica Wyman, ‘Review: Universal Pictures 3’, C Magazine, Winter
2000
Christopher Brayshaw, ‘Happy Home’, Canadian Art, Fall
Christopher Brayshaw, ‘Curator’s Words Undermine Cartoon and TV Inspired Work’, The Vancouver Courier, 19 September
Liz Hodgson, On Location: Public Art for the New Millennium, The Vancouver Sun, 6 July,
Robin Laurence, ‘Scary Mascots, Super Art’, The Georgia Straight, 22 June
1999
Peter Birnie, ‘Shadbolt’s Gifts Honour Local Artists’, The Vancouver Sun, 24 March
Blake Gopnik, ‘Crossing the Line Between Past, Future’, The Globe and Mail, 26 October
Robin Laurence, ‘Young Artists Cull Pop Culture Kitsch’, The Georgia Straight, 24 September
Michael Scott, ‘Pop Culture through the Camera’s Eye’, The Vancouver Sun, 16 September
Myfanwy Warhurst, ‘Searching for Signs of Life’, The Age, 14 May
1998
Robin Laurence, ‘Slacker Generation Artists Take Out the Pop Culture Trash’, The Georgia Straight, 5 March
Ken Lum, ‘Six New Vancouver Modern’, Canadian Art, Summer
Lisa Gabrielle Mark, ‘Letter from Toronto’, C Magazine, Winter
Sarah Milroy, ‘An Eyeful of Irony’, The Globe and Mail, 14 February
Michael Scott, ‘Little to Show from 6 New Artists’, The Vancouver Sun, 21 February
Andrew Zealley, ‘Home Alone’, Extra! 8 October
1997
Marilu Knode, ‘New Vancouver Art: Deliberately Pushy’, Art/Text, November
Marilu Knode, ‘Oh Canada!’ Aorta (Seattle), January - February
Judith Mastai, ‘The Elevation of BC Art’, C Magazine, February – April
Charlotte Townsend-Gault, ‘Topographies: Aspects of Recent BC Art’, Canadian Art, Spring
1996
Jennifer Blair, ‘The Fountainheads’. Artichoke Magazine, Spring
Robert Everett-Green, ‘Gallery Hopping Takes on a Whole New Dimension’, The Globe and Mail, 7 November
Robin Laurence, ‘Exhibit an Exercise in Inclusiveness’, The Georgia Straight, 31 October
Sarah Milroy, ‘Primeval Meets Postmodern in BC Show’, The Globe and Mail, 28 September
Michael Scott, ‘BC Artists Emerge in Topographies’, The Vancouver Sun, 29 September
1994
Phil McCrum And Reid Shier, ‘Just Looking’, Boo Magazine,