GC Interview: Victoria Ward

I've just posted a new art world interview over at Gallery Crawl. This one's got a lot of twists and turns. It features one of my fave Canadian painters, Victoria Ward.

Here's an excerpt from the interview:

GC: Would you give an example of how the punk movement has influenced a specific work of art or series of paintings?

VW: Oh there isn’t any one painting or series in particular…. The influence mostly comes from the attitude. There once was a noble idea in punk. Joe Strummer, Lydon and others wrote about social issues. That whole idea of raising yourself up above what you were born into, fighting for the right stuff and doing-it-yourself. Punk taught me to just go and become an artist, forget that whole suburban idea of having the cars, the family, the house in Brampton and the vacations in resorts in Mexico….

Read the complete interview here.