Hilda Mary Woolnough RCA (11 February 1934 – 12 December 2007) was an artist with a wide range of media (drawing, printmaking, painting, sculpture) as well as a teacher, who exhibited her work worldwide.
Beginning traditional training at the Chelsea School of Art in London in 1952, and studying amongst a group of renowned artists, among them Ceri Richards and Henry Moore,[3] she experimented with printmaking and graduated with her focus on painting in 1955.
Emigrating to Canada in 1957, she settled in Hamilton, Ontario, but left in 1965 to go to San Miguel de Allende Instituto in Mexico to study experimental etching, graduating in 1967 with a focus in graphics and a Masters in Fine Arts.
[1] By this time, she had remarried Reshard Gool, a Canadian who founded a publication company known as Square Deal and wrote a best-selling novel, Cape Town Coolie.
In 2001, her exhibition Timepiece, which showed at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery, featured sculpture, sound environments, and complex multilayered prints,[7] accompanied by a book by Linda Rae Dornan.
Titled Guantánamo (2004-2005), the 12-piece show, with a large multi-paneled theatrical installation fifteen metres long,[1] toured worldwide, including in Japan.
[11]Woolnough received the Father Adrien Arsenault Senior Arts Award recognizing achievement as a Prince Edward Island artist in 1999, and was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy in 2000.