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Chris Cuthill

Chris Cuthill serves as Art Chair at Redeemer University College, Ancaster, Ontario, where he teaches courses in Art Theory, Art History and Popular Culture. Chris finished a Masters degree in Philosophical Aesthetics in 1999 at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto. His thesis, entitled Mutilated Music: Towards an After Auschwitz Aesthetic, explored the philosophical and ethical limitations of artistic representations of the Holocaust.

He is currently a doctoral candidate at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam with research focused on the topic of suffering and art. He has worked professionally in the theatre, as a graphic artist and as an art curator. A practicing artist, Chris has exhibited work in Canada, the United States and Europe; his favoured media include fabric, pen and ink and watercolour.

Chris lives in downtown Hamilton with his wife Dawn, two children and a chubby beagle.

Lent with Leonard

Leonard Cohen develops Old Ideas for surviving the Lenten desert: a "manual for living with defeat."

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Chris Cuthill Apr 5, 2012

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Moused-eared worldview

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Chris Cuthill Feb 25, 2011

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Facing the Strange

Approaching contemporary art with the eyes of a child is not such a bad idea.

Chris Cuthill Apr 1, 2010

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St. Michael (after Rublev)

Gold leaf, handmade paper 2010This piece, based on the original icon by the 15th century Russian icon painter Rublev, is from a collection entitled Protestant Icons. Built, rather than written, with layers of paper, these icons replace the flesh of the saints with...

Chris Cuthill May 23, 2008

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Vater, Sohn und Heiliger Geist

Three symbols: a burning bush, a sun and a tongue of flame. Beneath, a series of German words: a register of WWII concentration camps, a litany of German euphemisms for the genocidal destruction of the European Jewry and the label directions from a Zyklon-B canister...

Chris Cuthill Sep 1, 2006 Making the most of college (first annual)

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Making the most of college: looking at paintings

Art is more than a weather forecast or a financial statement, which experts can interpret for us. A student of art is required to personally engage art, and Chris Cuthill suggests three interdependent methods: from one’s own worldview, from dipping into the communal experience of a work through others’ interpretations, and through the surface plays of colour and texture.