David Gifford lives and works on the traditional lands of the lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples. He is a co-founder of the artist-run-centre The Ministry of Casual Living, est. 2002, and is a sessional lecturer of drawing and colour theory at the University of Victoria. His work is reflected in brush and ink, as a practicing magician, and the noise/sculpture project Puppets Forsaken. He builds Rube Goldberg machines in his back yard modelling the global, inevitable, cumulative and irreversible.
David Gifford, Department of Visual Arts University of Victoria PO Box 1700 STN CSC Victoria BC V8W 2Y2 Canada.
