- City
- Toronto
- Booth
- Nathan Phillips Square
Booth 544
Margaret Rankin
Margaret started printmaking by taking a course at Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver, while working as a landscape architect. She continued by studying 20th century prints and the landscapes of Asia and Cape Breton. Currently based in Toronto, she has been making and exhibiting her original linocuts and collagraph prints since 1992. Her prints have evolved from rural scenes to geometric abstractions based on textiles, man-made landscapes and architecture in the urban environment. Her monoprints and limited-edition prints are made using repurposed materials such as packing cardboard, textured wallpapers and LEGO tiles. Her body of work is about reimagining, reducing and simplifying the forms of the world she sees around her, into ordered compositions. In 2005 she won the City of Toronto Purchase Award at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition.
