| James Lindsay was born in Holytown, Scotland in
1944. He studied printmaking at the Glasgow School of Art, graduating
with a Bachelor of Arts in 1967. He continued studying at the Jordanhill
College of Education, and then taught art for two years before immigrating
to Canada in 1970. He settled in Edmonton, Alberta, exhibited paintings,
and published a book of illustrated poetry with Christopher Ringrose.
In 1974 he moved to Victoria. Lindsay taught arts and crafts at the
William Head Institution, a federal penitentiary near Victoria from
1975 until1979. He was elected national Vice-President of the Canadian
Artists Representation (C.A.R.) in 1979 and became involved in the
issues of "artist's rights" copyright, censorship, artist's
fees, and lobbied for changes in legislation to benefit Canadian Visual
artists.
He returned to studying printmaking in 1981, spending a year at
the Vancouver Community College in order to produce big edition
prints using 4-colour process offset lithography mixed with other
media. In 1982 he published Fragments from the War Zone. Lindsay
continues to be engaged as an artist and arts activist on the local
scene.
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