Carver John Livingston was adopted into an aboriginal artistic dynasty GlobeArts
Noted Victoria artist John Livingston, who was also a fixer, contractor and onetime gallerist, devoted his life to weaving together disparate parts of his adopted Indigenous community with tools that included common sense, a list of extensive contacts and an encyclopedic memory.
“I’ll miss his knowledge, his great sense of humour and his willingness to be there for anybody,” Mr. Hunt continued. “John really understood how a culture was supposed to be.” Livingston, seen here in 2016, was born in Vancouver, on the Northwest Coast of British Columbia, Canada in 1951.John Edmund Livingston was born in Vancouver on July 21, 1951, the eldest of Edmund and Dorothy Livingston’s six children. His father, who was from New York, was a geological engineer who often travelled for long stretches as part of his work as a groundwater hydrology specialist for the B.C. government.
In 1962, the family moved to Victoria, where the father continued to work for the provincial government until the marriage fell apart; he became a consultant, moving back to the mainland and leaving the family behind. For her part, Ms. Livingston became a psychiatric social worker with Saanich Mental Health and for years supported grassroots causes such as anti-poverty and social-housing programs.
Called Arts of the Raven, the gallery was a place where quality was the rule, no matter how much, or little, an item cost. The two men had high standards, although Mr. Livingston, typical of his nature, tended to give most of the credit to his friend and mentor.“If something was bad, [Tony Hunt] would say so, just like that,” Mr. Livingston told The Globe and Mail after Mr. Hunt died in December, 2017.
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