Blake William Ward was born in Yellowknife, NWT, Canada on June 3, 1956 and raised in Edmonton. In 1979 he received an Honours Degree in Fine Art from the University of Alberta and in 1985 he moved to Paris to study figurative sculpture under Cyril Heck.

 

Inspired by the beauty of the human form, he works to create what he believes are timeless commentaries on our human condition by examining society’s conventions or by offering simply an object of beauty with which to uplift and console. He hopes to find the courage and conviction to give his art purpose, thus he has either to create art with a message in order to give it meaning or it must justify itself in some way to be held as worthy today. The representation of an image must be reflexive and must contain it’s own justification; it must be it’s own advocate.

 

Holding to his appreciation of the human figure, Ward remains true to the representational quality and realistic proportions of traditional sculpture while simultaneously considering new ways to comment on the human condition.

 

Exhibitions of Ward’s work have travelled to three continents; North America: the United States and Canada; Europe: France, Italy, Germany and England; and Asia: Vietnam, Singapore, Hong Kong and India.

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Website: https://blakeward.com/