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Scott Leroux fonds
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The collection consists of digital videos (not all videos have sound), digital images, digital audio recordings, screen recordings, digital documents, and web captured content.
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Leroux was born to Doug and Janice Leroux on February 16, 1988 in The Pas, Manitoba. Leroux’s creativity began at an early age, creating cartoon strips, Lego stop motion films and taught himself to play several instruments, most notably the bass and organ. Scott Leroux was an artist of various art forms. and studied Fine Arts at the University of Manitoba’s School of Art from 2007-2014 graduating with honours. To help finance his studies Leroux planted trees during the summers, which would serve as inspiration in his art.
While at the U of M, Leroux co-founded Chesterfield, a magazine dedicated to highlighting student art at the University of Manitoba. He dedicated himself to Chesterfield while helping run the operations. Leroux had a hand in everything from creating call adverts for student art, to layouts and editing, to acquiring funding through grants and ad space. His art works include photography, music, poetry, painting, music videos, films, mixed media art and scores. Leroux was incredibly involved in his community and much of his work is collaborative. He played with and jammed in several Winnipeg based bands, such as Uncanny Valley Girls and Savant Flaneur. Leroux was well known for often lending a helping hand to friends and other local artists in need of assistance with a project.
Leroux’s art works have been put on display at the CSACE Gallery, The Edge Gallery, Aceartinc and Platform Centre for Photographic + Digital Arts and published on the websites: Bandcamp, YouTube, Instagram, BlogSpot, Vimeo, SoundCloud.
Scott Leroux passed away suddenly due to a heart condition on October 29, 2016 in Winnipeg. He was 28 years old.
Custodial history
Doug and Janice Leroux transferred the material to the University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections in March 2020.
Scope and content
A2022-010 covers the life and art of Scott Leroux. The electronic records span from [?] to 2017. The fonds has been divided into 4 series and is largely composed of Scott’s artistic individual and collaborative projects. Additionally, the collection contains the documentation of Scott’s personal life, various events, shows attended, working life as a tree planter, life growing up in rural Manitoba, and numerous trips.
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Issues of the magazine Chesterfield can be found at the University of Manitoba Archives and Special collections.
Leroux was involved in the eXperimental Improv Ensemble (XIE) at the University of Manitoba: https://umanitoba.ca/music/ensembles
Websites associated with Leroux's work:
http://lerouxphoto.blogspot.com/
https://www.youtube.com/user/beautrager
https://vimeo.com/user10786849
https://scottleroux.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/lukas-electric
https://www.instagram.com/sgottler/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoxCVd4Qu-4
https://www.facebook.com/Ouroboros-24-hour-Band-344567098964203/
https://www.facebook.com/savantflaneur
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We gratefully acknowledge the funding provided by the Province of Manitoba Heritage Grants Program, as well as the financial assistance of Doug and Janice Leroux.
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Finding aid created by Carly Roberts (August 2022).