Heather Carroll is a Canadian/British multi-disciplinary artist who works primarily with engravings, relief printing, monotype, stone sculpting, serigraphy, and weaving.
She also works in the design, organization, and conducting of creative workshops for children and adults.
Biography Born in Manchester, England, UK, in 1956 to Canadian and Scottish parents, Heather Carroll is a Kablunangajuk of Inuit, Innu, Scottish, and other European origin. In 1977, she completed her Bachelor of Arts degree at the School of Fine Arts at the University of Toronto. From 1983 to 1988, she pursued a career as a graphic artist and illustrator in Barbados with her company, Lâché, during which time she also gave courses in advertising design at the Barbados Community College. In 1988, she moved to Brussels, Belgium where she worked as a freelance graphic artist. In 1989, she moved to Canada where she began her work in engravings in her studio in Montreal, Quebec. In 1990, Heather Carroll relocated to Luxembourg where she has continued with her artwork and career as a multi-disciplinary artist, art instructor and lecturer.
Artwork She has been based in Luxembourg since 2000. She has exhibited in Luxembourg, Belgium, France, Germany, the Caribbean, Canada, the United States, and China.
Her work focuses on the land of her ancestors and family, animals, the environment and the problems that threaten to change their lives forever.
She has monumental sculptures located throughout Luxembourg and France and has regularly participated in sculpture symposiums from 2004, 2005, and 2008 in Luxembourg, and 2007 in Rodemack, France. Her last symposiums took place in Lunéville, France, in May 2013 and in Luxembourg in August of the same year.
Carroll was commissioned by Canada's ambassador to the Netherlands to create a 5-tonne, 3.5-meter Inukshuk. This sculpture was donated to the International Criminal Court in The Hague and inaugurated on 7 March 2018. She was also commissioned by the Canadian Embassy to create an Inukshuk for the city of Lahr, Germany for Canada's 150th anniversary, which is on display on the square in front of the city's train station.
Public sculptures +TitleYearLocationCityCountryGPS Coordinates"Anuri" ("The Wind")200524 Rue de la GareTroisviergesLuxembourg50.119113, 5.992234"Dei Glecklechen Hieschen" ("The Happy Rabbit")2006Ecole Préscolaire (Pre-School)ErmsdorfLuxembourg49.830598, 6.215267"Creatures in the Wood"2006Am Brill Sentier Nature (Start of walk located at 25 Rue de la Forêt,
Map of path available here.)SchifflangeLuxembourg49.502629, 6.008231"La Licorne" ("The Unicorn")200713 Rue Général de GaulleCattenomFrance49.406058, 6.241608"Le Fossile" ("The Fossil")20123 Bunte WeeErmsdorfLuxembourg49.830466, 6.217894"The Fallen"2017Canadian Passchendaele Memorial GardenZonnebekeBelgium50.870000, 2.990153"Inuksuk"2018Lahr Train StationLahrGermany48.340050, 7.836055"Inuksuk"2018International Criminal CourtThe HagueNetherlands52.105849, 4.319767"Inuksuk"2025Orminiou 34AthensGreece37.974594, 23.752280
Main exhibitions +YearExhibitionCityCountry2014-2015Stonedreams, Mierscher KulturhausMerschLuxembourg2012-201429e, 30e, 31e Rencontre internationale de sculptureHettange-GrandeFrance2014Plus Semblable que Différents, échange culturel Luxembourg-Turquie, abbaye de NeumünsterNeumünsterLuxembourg2013Tuttukinuk, exposition personelle, Ute’s Galerie & StudioSchrondweilerLuxembourg2013Symposium de la Sculpture, Gare Art FestivalLuxembourg CityLuxembourg2013National Aboriginal Fashion Week, défilé de modeRegina, SaskatchewanCanada2013Symposium de la SculptureLunévilleFrance2012Wege zu Kunst & Religion, Blaue GalerieSchöneckenGermany2010Ecrire avec la Pierre, La Sculpture Inuit de Baker Lake, Installation Inukshuk, Bibliotheca WittockianaBrusselsBelgium2009Guanlan Print FestivalShenzhenChina2008Lectures et Sculptures du Canada, Université libre de BruxellesBrusselsBelgium2007Lancaster Great House – Portes Ouvertes, exposition collectiveSt. James ParishBarbados2007Sculpture dans la Rue, Sculpture monumentaleRodemackFrance2005Exposition Carroll, Parlement européenStrasbourgFrance2005Europa tot in uw bed, Infopunt EuropaAntwerpBelgium2004Femmes et Fleurs, Floating World GalleryTulsa, OklahomaUSA2002« Strictly Sculpture », Gelabert Studio GalleryNew YorkUSA
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