Laura Millard

Laura Millard was born in Calgary, Alberta in 1961. Before completing her MFA at Concordia University, Montreal, she received a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Her work has been widely exhibited across Canada and has been collected by corporations such as TD Bank and Fidelity Investments as well as Department of Foreign Affairs and Canada Council Art Bank. She is currently Chair of Drawing and Painting at the Ontario College of Art and Design. Millard’s images of waterfalls are split-second captures that are digitally altered, then blown up and over-painted. By conflating photography with the meticulous, time consuming act of hand rendering, Millard blurs their readability and slows down the act of looking. In 2006 Unesco chose to reproduce her image Lac des Arcs: Skate II for their annual Christmas card.