Mark Fordham graduated from the Fine Arts program at OCAD and York University. For many years, he worked in the field of digital design for the film industry while pursuing his passion of painting people and places. His paintings and sculptures have been shown in major Toronto galleries, and locally at the Station Gallery in Whitby and the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa. He is the recipient of numerous awards, the most recent being the 2022 Juried Show at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery Award of Excellence and the 2023 Portrait Society of Canada Award of Merit. The paintings shown at the WACC are some of his latest works.