Ed Varney

Male

Courtenay,BC

Canada

Profile Information:

Mail-Artist since:
1970
My Website (without http://):
http://dont have one - yet
Why I am involved in Mail-Art:
Artists are by far the most interesting people to communicate with. And the most responsive. It's amazing how personal and generous their communication mediums are. I love making things and I love getting responses to what I have made through the mail. Mail Art has been an important influence in my life for almost four decades.
My Mail-Adress (snail and/or E-mail)
4426 Island Highway South
Courtenay, BC
V9N 9T1 Canada

Comment Wall:

  • Ruud Janssen

    Welcome Ed! Glad you joined!
  • Maurizio Follin

    Hi Ed

    Maurizio
  • Gik Juri

    Thank You, Ed!
  • Ruud Janssen

    Hi Ed, Still remember your beautifull Canadada stampsheets which I have luckily also a few in my collection of artistamps. I have treasured att these artistamos that I received in the past 28 years into large albums. Now it is quite a historic collection.....
  • Litsa Spathi / NOBODY


    "Merry X-mas & a happy new (y) ear!"- Fluxus and visual poem by Litsa Spathi created for her Fluxus Friends.
    ...ThanXs for your friendsheep!"
  • Denis Charmot

    And it was not a rigged photo.
    Denis Charmot
    http://denis.charmot.free.fr
  • Tulio Restrepo

    Dear Ed Varney... Please come in contact with me in a IUOMA artist space...I need your special company, Activity & Correspondence...
    A big Hug
    Tulio Restrepo
    Zona Postal Mail Art Network
    A.A. 65.376
    Medellín - Colombia
    e-mail: tulio.restrepo@une.net.co
  • MailWorks

    Ed, looking forward to your contribution for Bizarre Cities. Please send it to
    Bernd Reichert
    Mailworks@Bruxelles
    97, Avenue du Val d’Or
    B-1150 Brussels
    Belgium

    Best regards, Bernd
  • Celestino Neto

    Dear friend I am leaving here is convocatória.

    II BIENAL INTERNACIONAL DEL PEQUEÑO FORMATO - VENEZUELA.

    Mail artists Annijames Rivero and Luis Valera Escarre invite all interested artists around the world to participate in their international mail-art project:

    The Second Biennale International of Small Art - Venezuela
    Exhibition to all.
    No jury.
    Catalogue to all.
    No return.
    Size: Maximum Postcard size (10 x 15 cm.)
    Technique: Free.
    Deadline:

    December 31, 2009.

    Send your Work to:

    II Bienal Internacional del Pequeño Formato,
    Apartado 54,
    Zona P. 2101A.
    Maracay
    VENEZUELA.

    www.bienalvenezuelados.blogspot.com
  • Megan Sandover-Sly (triscuitbox)

    i like on the island too! yeah for canadian mail artists!
  • Keyla Holmquist

    Hi Ed, greetings from Venezuela.

    The 6th World's Poetry Festival 2009 will take place on june and july as a tribute to a venezuelan Poet named Juan Calzadilla (National Prize of Plastic Arts 1996).
    This event will be sponsored by Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Cultura and Casa Nacional de las Letras Andrés Bello, so my art archive willheld:

    THE 5th INTERNATIONAL ENCOUNTER OF VISUAL POETRY
    OPEN NOTIFICATION – NO SELECTION – NO JURY
    Everything received will be exhibited – Documentation [to all of you].
    NO RETURNS.
    Everything sent will be part of the MAIL ART ARCHIVE KEYLA HOLMQUIST.

    All the material has to be mailed to:


    Keyla Holmquist
    ARCHIVO DE ARTE CORREO
    Apartado Postal 326
    Maracay 2101
    Estado Aragua VENEZUELA

    DEADLINE MAY 31,st 2009

    All the material should be sent perfectly packed in order to prevent damage and with a copy of a data card, stuck on the back of the package.

    CATEGORIES:

    DRAWING, PAINTING, GRAPHIC, PHOTOGRAPHY, ARTIST SEALS, COPY-ART, EXPERIMENTAL ART.

    OBJECTS/ARTIST'S BOOKS:

    Measures UP TO A4 MAXIMUM. The base or pedestal needed should be provided by the artist.

    POETRY, FREE VERSE OR RHYME, PROSE, NARRATIVE, ESSAY, STORIES.

    VISUAL POETRY:

    Collage, visual poems, process poetry, illustrated poetry, labyrinth poems, phonetic poems, audible poems, semiotic, palindrome, holopoems, concrete poetry, video action, photo action, object poem, pseudovisual poetry, braille poetry.

    VIDEO, SHORTFILM, DOCUMENTARY, ANIMATION:

    All videos will be admitted, shortfilms, photography, documentaries, animations that do not exceed 8 minutes of length and they must be delivered on CD or DVD format ready for its presentation.

    MULTIMEDIA EXPRESSION:

    They will be admitted on CD or DVD format ready for its presentation including the credits, the photography, the list of the soundtrack that was used and the name of the author.

    AUDIO FORMAT:

    the audio format admitted has to be:
    Wave 44,100 Hz 16 bit stereo
    Mp3 from 96 'til 320 KPSS
    If the expression is audible, high fidelity required.
    http://holmquistartecorreo.blogspot.com/
  • Torma Cauli

    Hi Ed! Thank you your two Mail!!! :-) It's misdirection, after all founded me the postman. Today i've mail too. (Sorry, my english very little).
    Best regards
    Cauli
  • JUDITH COPITHORNE

    Hi Ed

    I can't seem to send an email to you. would you please send me an email so I can send a paper I did on readings and publishing in Vancouver in the 1960's?
    Thanks , Judith
  • JUDITH COPITHORNE

    Dear Ed
    If you don't have my email address please send your email address to Gregg and ask him to send it on to me so I can send you some info. Thanks, Judith
  • Rod Summers / VEC

    Dear Ed, I received an email saying you had asked me about M/A Olympics but when i clicked the link I ended up in virtual nowhere! This ning site can sometimes be ... clunky!
    I have sent you pieces for the MAO... whether they are relevant or not I will leave for you to decide, You did send me a second flyer invite so I think I will respond again, confusion reigns anyway.
    I met tiziana when i was in Venice, she wears your famous Artist badge on her arm... taped directly to her skin, mine in sewn to my favourite fleece jacket.
    Good that you are there.
    rod
  • Rod Summers / VEC

    hmmm, please excuse the vast number of spelling errors on the text below!
  • Rod Summers / VEC

    Wow! Nice birds. Because I was re-invited on the back of the Mayworks catalogue I sent some new stuff to you, chose what you use.. whatever should amuse. I did however forget to include the form you la. I am well pleased with the manifesto I sent!
    All is well.... except the heat of summer is not for Summers.
  • Carlos I. Botana

    Subject: Octopus...


    Collective book of mail art.


    Send 18 works of size 14.8 X 21 cm (A5 vertical), numbered and signed,
    for making up a series of volumes with different artists in each. Each
    volume will contain a minimum of 14 artworks, one per artist. Modify
    each copy in order to make them unique originals. All techniques:
    printings, drawings, paintings, photographs, collages...

    Each participant will receive a volume.

    Deadline: october, 2010.

    Send your art works to:

    Carlos Botana
    General Sanjurjo, 62 - 2º
    15006 A Coruña
    Galicia - España/Spain

    Greetings.

    Carlos Botana
  • TIZIANA BARACCHI

    LIMITE, SCAMBIO, SEGNO
    LIMIT, EXCHANGE, SIGN
    A tribute for the city of Portogruaro through a project involving art through mail. The keywords chosen as the theme are the motif of its foundation, joined in a common flow.

    Limit
    border between earth and water,
    the river harbor and the trade routes,
    the channels and the gardens of the palaces,
    a constant reference to a change in system, material and colour.

    Exchange
    not only of goods but also of colours and scents,
    artistic and architectural influences,
    mutual knowledge, therefore culture.

    Sign
    a condition of consent expressed in gesture, the conclusion of an agreement,
    a trace superimposed on many others:
    whose meaning is beyond the sum of the parts.

    Project by Rizoo Group, Tiziana Baracchi and Pro Loco di Portogruaro
    Format and dimension of work:
    square of maximum size 21 X 21 cm
    No e-mail

    No returns, no jury, no fee, no sales

    Exhibition in Portogruaro, 2010
    documentation online: www.rizoo.altervista.org
    info: daliobaracchi@hotmail.com – aurogentile@tiscali.it

    Deadline to be received March 31, 2010

    Send to:

    Proloco di Portogruaro
    via Cavour 33
    30026 Portogruaro (VE) - ITALY
  • Sean Woodward

    Hi Ed,

    As I noticed you contributing to the IUOMA Novel, maybe you'd like to join my Digital version ? .... http://iuoma-network.ning.com/group/iuomadigitalnovel... you could have Chapter 12 !

    Sean
  • Terry Reid

    how do, Edwin,

    am not sure,

    have you sent a SECREt to the Tell Me Tell Me exhibition at MoCA in Korea?

    http://iuoma-network.ning.com/events/send-to-the-secret-exchange

                                                             Duchamp's not Klein Blue suit

  • BRUNO CAPATTI

    Hi Ed,
    I received the documentation today, thank you so much.
    Unfortunately I can not participate in 2012 because the prohibitive cost of the mail does not allow me to make art post.
    Best regards Bruno
  • Test Tower

    Hey Ed - I thought I might tell you that it was a gas to meet you. Your vibe is so cool!  I hope that our relationship will grow with some exchanges through the mail. Perhaps we could enjoy a lunch together or, maybe, a dinner. In the not too far away future that is. I am curious about you and and your long association with the arts. Anyway, I posted a picture of you (I hope that was okay) on my blog as I reported on the MOA opening.  You can check it here: Heebee Jeebeeland. See you in the mail my friend!

  • TIZIANA BARACCHI

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