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Frank Lapointe was born in Port Rexton, Trinity Bight, where he again resides and works.

Following studies at memorial University of Newfoundland and the Washington School of Art, he attended the Ontario College of Art, graduating with honours in 1966.

Lapointe was appointed specialist in Art at M.U.N. in 1970 and was curator of the Art Gallery of M.U.N. from early 1972 to late 1973, when he left his position to devote himself full-time to his own work. At this point he was involved at the co-founding of t. Michael’s workshop.

In 1974 the artist was awarded a Canada Council Artist in Residence Grant during which he produced the “Island Imagery” series of watercolours focusing on Witless Bay Ecological Reserve Islands off Tors Cove, Newfoundland.

From the mid 1970’s to early 1980’s the artist created the Newfoundland Postcard Series of Lithographs from turn of the century postcard images and messages. The series, which focus on the feelings and events that touched the lives of Newfoundlanders, have toured internationally.

Lapointe collaborated with late musician composer Don Wherry and others on several multi media projects contributing the visual material and ideas on “Ice Report” which toured across Canada and to Paris, France, and to the Door as a Circular Passage, Birds, and Pond which was purchased by the National Film Board of Canada in 1981 and screened in a number of venues across Canada.

While living in the Tors Cove area, the artist was active in the visual arts community, working as a resident printmaker at St. Michael’s printshop and participating in the biannual Sound Symposium.

Lapointe has held a number of teaching positions at M.U.N., the Dundas Valley School of Art in Hamilton, Ontario, the provincial Craft School in St. John’s where he taught Visual Design part time for ten years. During the 1990’s he conducted workshops in Colour and Design in locations throughout Newfoundland and Labrador.

In the course of his career, Lapointe has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across Canada, in the US, Japan, England, Ireland and Continental Europe. His artworks are included in numerous private, corporate and public collections such as those at the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Canada Council Art Bank, the Bank of Nova Scotia, the Royal Bank, the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Photography, Air Canada, and the Federal Department of Public Works including a sculpture at the Post Office in Grand Falls, Newfoundland.

Architecturally, he has designed a number of structures, mainly private residences, but including O’Brien’s Landing in Bay Bulls and Fishers’ Loft in Port Rexton.

Recently Lapointe returned to live and work in Port Rexton from where he acts as a Set Designer and Visual Consulatnt for Rising Tide Theatre Association.

Frank Lapointe's work in Newfoundland is represented by:

Red Ochre Gallery

96 Duckworth St.
(Near Fairmont Hotel NL)
St. John's, 709 726 6422

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