Derek Norton co-founded the Spirit Wrestler Gallery in Vancouver with Nigel Reading and Gary Wyatt in 1995. He majored in painting in the Visual Arts Program at University of Victoria and has co-edited a celebratory collection of 71 works of contemporary stone sculture for Cape Dorset Sculpture (D&M, 2005 $35) in conjunction with co-editor Terry Ryan of the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative in Cape Dorset, Nunavut. The Inuit collection at the Spirit Wrestler is overseen by co-editor Nigel Reading.

[BCBW 2005] "Art" "Arctic"