Rory Wallace

Rory Wallace is a professor emeritus at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. He has taught both art and design history for 30 years. He has always been interested public issues, and especially the paradox of human and animal life. 

His earlier work focused on the social impact of landscape in literature, art and life. Later, he regarded design as a constructed ‘landscape’, one we more obviously actually make. The interaction of humans and animals is shaped by both. The issue is global. Animals, most animals on Earth, live in this human-designed landscape. Zoos are particularly clear renderings of complex social issues. His education about landscape and animals probably began when he was a groundskeeper in Scotland. Lambing sheep and tending horses is clearly an education. He later had the opportunity to receive a BA from SFU, MLitt from the University of Edinburgh, MAs from UBC and New York University, and a PhD from SFU.