C.V.

C.V. Jeffrey Macklin


Born February 8, 1967
Currently lives and works in Peterborough, Ontario

jeff at jacksoncreekpress dot ca | www.jacksoncreekpress.ca

Education


Sheridan College, Oakville, ON – Sept 1986 through April 1987
, One Year Diploma – Art Fundamentals,
Sheridan College, Oakville, ON
, Sept 1987 through April 1990 – Three Year Diploma – Graphic Design

Teaching

  • Fall 2017 - , 3D Simulations and Prototyping, Graphic Design – Visual Communications, Haliburton School of Art and Design, Fleming College, Peterborough, Ontario
  • Fall 2021- , Content Design 1, Graphic Design – Visual Communications, Haliburton School of Art and Design, Fleming College, Peterborough, Ontario 
  • Spring 2019 - , Visual Journalism, Graphic Design – Visual Communications, Haliburton School of Art and Design, Fleming College, Peterborough, Ontario
  • Workshops in printmaking (various) & lino-block cutting, Art Gallery of Peterborough, Critical Mass Port Hope, Public School Boards, Print Studio, Centre3, Artisan Centre - Peterborough

Exhibition List


2023

  • Indoor-Outdoor: A Public Art for Public facilities project,
    City of Peterborough

2022

  • Hands-on: an Exhibition of Haliburton School of Art + Design Faculty, Students and Alumni (group show), Fenelon Falls, June 1 – July 31, 2022
  • Kawartha Autumn Studio Tour

2021

  • You Are Here, Acme Gallery, 129 1/2 Hunter St. W., Peterborough
    December 3-24th
  • Kawartha Autumn Studio Tour

2019

  • Kawartha Autumn Studio Tour

2018

2017
2016
 2015
2014
  • Sister Mary’s Room of Requirement / Sister Mary’s Journal – collaborative installation with Phillip Chee, Erring On The Mount, a Public Energy Production – May 30, 31 and June 1, 2014
  • Kawartha Autumn Studio Tour – open studio Sept 27 and 28th, 2014
2013

2012

2011

  • Miniature Show – Blue Tomato Art Shoppe, Peterborough, Ontario (group show)
  • Pressing – Artspace, Artist Run Centre, Peterborough, Ontario (group show)

Collections:


  • Public Collection – City of Peterborough
  • Public Collection – Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario CANADA
  • Public Collection – Samford University Art Gallery, Birmingham, AL, USA.
  • Public Collection – University of Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Toronto, Ontario,
  • Public Collection – W.D. Jordan Special Collections-Music Library, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario
  • Public Collection – Grimsby Public Art Gallery, Grimsby, Ontario, Canada
  • Private collections throughout North American, Europe, Australia and Japan.

Jackson Creek Press Publication List, and other publicly published works

  • Bridges of Peterborough, (pub. 2022), 16 pages, printed in two colours, with 6 linocuts. Edition of 32.
  • How to Sit Butch, inspired by The Seahorse Press, (pub. 2021), 16 pages, printed in two colours from type and linocuts. Limited Edition.
  • Natural Prayers - Poems of Gordon Johnston, (pub. 2021), 36 Pg, digital with 4 hand-printed lino-cuts, Edition of 100.
  • On Sitting Still - Poem by Dimitrios Otis, 16 pg, printed in two colours, with linocut.
  • The American Poet Ezra Pound Recommends Peanut Butter to his Italian Friends (pub. 2020) - By Bruce Whitemen - 16 pg chapbook, printed 2 colour letterpress, pamphlet stitched.
  • Pieces of a Whole, (pub. 2020), 16 pg chapbook, printed black through, with 5 linocuts. Limited edition.
  • Manifesto, (pub. 2019), 36pg, hand-set type, printed in opaque white, pamphlet stitched. Edition of 30.
  • Brand New Gay, (pub. 2019), 12pg, including seven lino-cuts, and hand-set type, printed in two colours, pamphlet stitched. Edition of 17.
  • Queer Bodies in Confidence, comic anthology (published fall 2019 via Dalhousie University/Queens University
  • Shrine, for Will Munro (pub. 2018), 16pg, images with hand-set type, printed in a number of colours from hand carved lino block and handset type, pamphlet stitched. Edition of 19.
  • Spasm At The Spill (pub. 2017), 40pg wordless narrative comprised of 21 hand-carved linoblocks portraying The Nihilist Spasm Band in performance at The Spill Café in Peterborough, March 2015. Forward written by Thurston Moore and Byron Coley. Produced in an edition of 60 numbered, hard-cover, coptic-bound copies with slip covers.
  • The Togetherness of Things, Museum of Temporary Art (pub. 2015) – 24 page chapbook published for the opening of the pop-up exhibition of the same name – for the Art Gallery of Peterborough and Trent University, Cultural Studies Dept. Featuring hand-printed letterpress cover in two colours. Edition of 100 copies.
  • Leave The Door Open For the Moon – the poems of Nan Williamson (pub. 2015) – 40 page chapbook with 9 hand-printed relief cuts throughout. Digital with letterpress. Edition of 125 copies.
  • A Few Pucks (pub. 2014) – 12pg. chapbook with relief prints from carved hockey pucks, and backgrounds printed from raw wood blocks, with hand-set lead type.
  • Neighbourhoods  (pub. 2013) – 3opg. Anthology of Words and Visual Art
  • – chapbook with curated short stories, poems and visual art published for Artsweek 2013.
  • Curnoe (pub. 2013) – 8pg. chapbook with text and relief prints
  • To Silver Peak (pub. 2012) – 24pg. chapbook with text and relief prints
  • Kawartha Highlands (pub. 2010) – 16pg. chapbook with text and relief prints
  • Emily Carr – The New West (pamplet/broadside) (pub. 2009)
  • Wood (pub. 2008) – 8pg. chapbook with hand-set text
  • 2022 Wayzgoose Anthology, Grimsby Art Gallery – contributor to printmakers anthology.
  • 2021 Wayzgoose Anthology, Grimsby Art Gallery – contributor to printmakers anthology.
  • 2020 Wayzgoose Anthology, Grimsby Art Gallery – contributor to printmakers anthology.
  • 2019 Wayzgoose Anthology, Grimsby Art Gallery – contributor to printmakers anthology.
  • 2018 Wayzgoose Anthology, Grimsby Art Gallery – contributor to printmakers anthology.
  • 2017 Wayzgoose Anthology, Grimsby Art Gallery – contributor to printmakers anthology.
  • 2016 Wayzgoose Anthology, Grimsby Art Gallery – contributor to printmakers anthology.
  • 2015 Wayzgoose Anthology, Grimsby Art Gallery – contributor to printmakers anthology.
  • 2014 Wayzgoose Anthology, Grimsby Art Gallery – contributor to printmakers anthology.
  • 2013 Wayzgoose Anthology, Grimsby Art Gallery – contributor to printmakers anthology.
  • 2012 Wayzgoose Anthology, Grimsby Art Gallery – contributor to printmakers anthology.
  • 2011 Wayzgoose Anthology, Grimsby Art Gallery – contributor to printmakers anthology.
  • 2010 Wayzgoose Anthology, Grimsby Art Gallery – contributor to printmakers anthology.
  • 2009 Wayzgoose Anthology, Grimsby Art Gallery – contributor to printmakers anthology.
  • 2008 Wayzgoose Anthology, Grimsby Art Gallery – contributor to printmakers anthology.

Artist Statement

Jeffrey is an Peterborough, Ontario based artist, working primarily with relief printing (letterpress) and mixed media. He often employs words as visual triggers, as well as present-day/historical pop-culture icons and figures in both his print work and his mixed media pieces.