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Few artists possess the ability to create and leverage a singular talent across multiple mediums, Terence McGlade is one of them. Born in Toronto, Ontario, in 1953, Terence has experienced life through a cross-generational lens. This perspective allowed him to evolve as a timeless storyteller, with an artistic vision manifesting in different forms: as a sculptor, photographer, landscape designer, screenwriter, director and filmmaker.
Terence received an informal education in these spaces, enrolled in the Toronto streets, where he leaned on his ability to feel and draw on inspiration from environmental surroundings. Terence exercised his artistic strengths regularly during his early 20’s, growing up as part of the original Queen West art world where he joined a collective of activists, filmmakers, photographers and visual artists with revolutionary thoughts.
A constant willingness to seek new challenges and develop his craft led Terence to a career in video and television. By the time Terence reached his 30’s, he was hired by TVO and directed over 165 television episodes from 1980 to 1982, as a documentary maker.
Over the next 35 years, Terence blossomed in landscape design where he mastered the importance of his compositions standing the test of time, functionally and stylistically. In 1980, Terence was the visiting artist in residence at Memorial University in St. Johns, Newfoundland
Since then, Terence has shared his knowledge with thousands lecturing at conferences and universities across North America in Landscape Design and Green Roofs. Terence was also featured in a number of publications including: Style at Home, Garden Design, Chatelaine, Azure, Award Magazine and Designs for Small Gardens, in 2008.
Terence is a 10x recipient of Landscape Ontario’s Award of Excellence while his sculptures and video works have been displayed at Dada Reboot Nuit Blanche, Oeno Gallery, National Art Gallery of Canada, in Ottawa and Art Gallery of Ontario, in Toronto.
In the past five years, Terence has rediscovered and reimagined his passion for video art production as a filmmaker, writing and directing three short films with considerable success. Terence’s first film, Repeat, earned an honorable mention at the Berlin Film Festival, in 2016, and Official Selections at BIFF and Rendezvous With Madness. Terence’s second film, Portrait of Rosemary, a documentary of his sister’s illnesses, was selected for the Buffalo International Film Festival and Forrest City Film Festival. Last, Terence’s most recent production, silent short film, Platform was featured in 16 festivals between 2020 to 2021, winning six awards along the way, including: the Best Short Film at Global Shorts, Best Experimental Short at Toronto Independent Film Festival and Best Experimental Film and Video Art at WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival. Platform has also accumulated six official selections and three finalist designations.
Terence, now age 68, feels an enhanced level of artistic ability and willingness to create. Terence has no intentions of slowing down, while remaining focused on storytelling through artistic mediums and challenging his viewers to dive into a dimension of thoughtfulness.
Hayden is an Award winning Filmmaker. He has directed a feature film,
along with many shorts and commercials. His short film ‘Stay Home’ was
praised in a write up by The Hollywood Reporter. ‘Stay Home’ has
circulated 7 International Festivals including Venice Shorts. He was
most recently Awarded for his work on the short film ‘Platform’ Winning
Best Experimental Short at the Toronto Independent Film Festival 2020
and Best Indie Film at Toronto Film Magazine Festival 2021.
Platform is a short film about the phenomenological experience of living in the 21st century. Modern society is fissured, between the ‘real’ and the ‘virtual’, between the Left and the Right, between the haves and the have nots, etc. If there is a common thread running through our social fabric, it is that binary and contradictory perspectives exist for every possible object or subject. But this cleavage in our sense of reality has resulted in an increasingly apathetic populace — even towards the vilest acts of violence. Platform explores this loss of effect through a depiction of violent action, casually observed by 8 people, that leads to nothing: an allegorical illumination of modern observer culture.
