Redesigning Paradise: New work by Mary Anne Barkhouse, Dianne Bos, Sarah Fuller, and Penelope Stewart

January 20- March 15, 2023
Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta
www.whyte.org

Alternative photographic processes have been the creative catalyst for four Canadian artists — Mary Anne Barkhouse, Dianne Bos, Sarah Fuller, and Penelope Stewart — during their annual get-togethers and self-directed residencies for several years. The work in this exhibition addresses aspects of the natural environment in different ways by using photography as an investigative tool.

The artists in this exhibition offer a variety of cultural perspectives that look at the flora, fauna and weather patterns of the foothill, mountain and other ecosystems. Informed by the Whyte Museum Archives, this work allows the viewer to arrive at a place of empathy for the other – both human and non-human – while thinking through the many ways landscape has been altered by human disturbances.

From Galleries West Magazine:

The show features work by four photo-based contemporary artists who take the museum’s archive as inspiration for fresh perspectives on local flora, fauna, weather and geology. Their work blends historical technologies with contemporary sensibilities, a collision that yields a range of intriguing investigations.

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TOP IMAGE: Works (clockwise from top right) by Penelope Stewart,  Sarah Fuller, Dianne Bos and Mary Anne Barkhouse (top left).