Thaddeus Holownia

2017—Visual Arts

Thaddeus Holownia

Distinguished photographer Thaddeus Holownia was born in England in 1949 and came to Canada as a child. He studied Fine Arts and Communications at the University of Windsor, graduating in 1972. After five years as part of the Toronto art scene, in 1977 he joined Mount Allison’s Fine Arts department to launch the photography program. Since then, his work has appeared in more than 80 solo and group exhibitions at galleries across Canada and as far afield as New York, Mexico City, Tokyo, Prague, Hamburg, and Berlin. In 2017, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia honoured him with a retrospective exhibition documenting 40 years of creative accomplishments.

Shot mostly with large format view cameras, his richly detailed images record the world within and beyond Tantramar. His commitment to excellence is also evident in books from Anchorage Press, a small publishing house and printshop that he founded in 1987. Here, with like-minded poets and writers, he explores the relation between humans and nature in compelling volumes of visual and verbal imagery.