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Sidney Michael Dickens (born 1963) is a Vancouver-based artist. He is best known for his popular and highly collectible tiles called Memory Blocks. Sid Dickens divides his time between British Columbia’s Queen Charlotte Islands and his studio and head office in Vancouver.〔http://www.beladagio.com/dickens_bio.html〕 Religious iconography, historic, romantic images and cracked facades are common themes in his Memory Blocks. ==Life and career== Sid Dickens was born into a fishing family in the small northern community of Prince Rupert, British Columbia. After graduating high school in 1981, he worked as a fisherman on and off until he was 28 years old; in the off-season, he served burgers on the ferries and dedicated his spare time to drawing and painting.〔http://www.sidcollectors.com/catalog/sidclopedia_history.html〕 In 1983, Dickens enrolled in the prestigious Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver in 1983. He left Emily Carr after one year and returned to Prince Rupert. In 1986, he went on a long backpacking trip through Europe that greatly influenced his aesthetic. Upon his return, he settled in the Queen Charlotte Islands with his mother who had taken a job in Sandspit, on the Moresby Island. He spent the next few years working as a logger in the isolated forests. He founded a studio there and began to create large assemblage pieces using materials that he found around him including whalebone, mud, metal, leaves and copper wire left over from the logging industry. He was also experimenting with welding, creating jewelry and chain link.〔http://www.plazagalleries.com/artists/artists.php?pid=39&nav=artists&action=2〕 In 1990, he attended an art school in the internationally renowned artists' colony of San Miguel de Allende in the north central mountains of Mexico.〔http://www.artinaclick.com/artist/bio.asp?fk_artist=7627〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sid Dickens」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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