[3] On a scholarship he entered the University of Victoria in 1967 and studied for three years with artists such as Dana Atchley and Peter Daglish, among others (1967-1971) graduating with his B.F.A.
[4] With artists such as Hank Bull, Michael Morris, and Vincent Trasov, he explored comic book-style drawings and Fluxus conceptual art.
[12] They also collected examples of leopard print imagery from art, advertisements, magazines, and everyday life, and distributed them through a mail-art network.
[13][6][14] In 2021, the University of Victoria held an exhibition titled Pop Anthropology of Eric Metcalfe’s oeuvre, spanning over sixty years, in celebration of the artist’s honorary doctorate (UVic DFA 2021, BFA 1970).
[15][16] The Eric Metcalfe fonds is in the collection of the Morris and Helen Belkind Gallery, Vancouver.