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GEORGE PRATT   Sculptor in Stone

Instructional Commissions
HALIBURTON  SCHOOL OF  THE ARTS
Faculty member - annual courses in stone sculpture, 1988 through 2009.
NORTHWEST TERRITORIES GOVERNMENT
	Instruction to Inuit carvers using marbles found in the Arctic.
	Five courses from 1988 to 1991.
INDIAN ARTS & CRAFTS SOCIETY OF BC
	A course for Kwakiutl and Gitksan carvers in 1980.  This course resulted in commissions for stone carvings for the Parliament Buildings 
for the carvers involved..
Affiliations
NORTHWEST STONE SCULPTORS ASSOCIATION
	Instructor for eleven summer symposia—1988 to 2000.
WEST COAST STONE SCULPTORS ASSOCIATION
            Instructor for ten summer symposia—1997 to 2007.
VANCOUVER BOARD OF TRADE
              Sculptor in Residence from June 1986. 

VANCOUVER SPRING - ADVANCED COURSE IN CARVING TECHNOLOGY. 
               2014  - 2015.

GEORGE PRATT is a professional sculptor in stone practising in British Columbia, Canada.  He was born at Minden, Ontario in 1939.  He has lived in most areas of Canada including the arctic.  Eventually settling in Toronto, he was there introduced to the stone-carving arts under E.B. Cox in 1970.   He moved to Vancouver in 1975. 

Pratt’s works are carved in granite, marble, jade and other exotic ornamental stones of Canada.  His work is widely collected in North America by private individuals and corporations.  Large works commissioned for public display in Canada are:


TERRY FOX MEMORIAL - Port Coquitlam, B.C.

THE SEDNA SCULPTURE - Toronto, Ontario

THE BUILDERS - Calgary, Alberta

SALMON RIVER - Burnaby, B.C.

THE  SINGING FROG - Burnaby, B.C.

PAN, God of the Fields and Forests - Haliburton, Ontario

           REJUVENATION - Burnaby, B.C.

           A CAWCUSS of CROWS -  Burnaby, B.C.

          The SUNDIAL - Sechelt, B.C.

Abroad:

ALASKA VETERANS MEMORIAL – Mt. McKinley, Alaska

          THE SUNDIAL -  City of Guangzhou, China


As well, Pratt has sculpted many presentation works for foreign dignitaries, notably:

HRH PRINCE PHILIP

HON. MARY ROBINSON, President, Republic of Ireland

HON. KIM YOUNG SAM, President, Republic of Korea

HON. CORAZON AQUINO, President, The Philippines

BORIS YELTSIN, President, The Russian Federation

WM. CLINTON, President, The United States

JIANG ZEMIN, President, The People’s Republic of China

 


... so every carpenter and workmaster, that laboreth night and day; and they that cut and grave seals ... the smith also, working by the anvil, the potter sitting at his wheel ... all these trust to their hands; and every one is wise in his work.  Without these a city cannot be inhabited ... they will not be sought for in public council, nor sit high in the congregation ... but they will maintain the state of the world and their desire is in their craft.
ECCLESIASTICUS 38, 27-34
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