Collyer has spent the last thirty years in Willowdale and has been an active participant in issues related to sustainability and development. His photographic and sculptural works
have engaged with the history of this place.
Collyer immigrated to Canada from England in 1957. He presented his first solo exhibition at the Carmen Lamanna Gallery. His early sculpture shows the influence of Minimalism in its geometric design, abstraction and unadorned materials. By the mid-1980s Collyer had moved further away from his early minimalism to include photography and text on the surface of his sculptures. Constructed from elements and materials that retain some of their association with an established urban context of commerce, construction and mass media, these discrete objects preserve an open-ended narrative and function as contemporary metaphors.
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