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Penelope Stewart is an artist, curator/writer and publisher whose multi-disciplinary practice encompasses expansive architectural installations/interventions, alternative photography, artist books, and works on paper. Re-current themes address notions of cultural memory, of time and space and a considered approach to the relationship between objects, architecture, gardens, landscape and the places between – places to intervene, inhabit and above all activate. Whether it has been historic sites such as Musée Barthète, a small museum in France, or a museum like the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY or the deconstruction/reconstruction of a 19 th century book of botany using cyanotype, her intentions are to create sensory spaces, haptic experiences, transforming our perceptions and possible readings of space, time and memory.

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A Topography of Fingerprints

a topography of fingerprints and Hive, are artist books created as part of an ongoing collaboration between Penelope Stewart and Laura Vickerson. This two-volume boxed set, is a second iteration of their residency experience and their exhibition/installation in a beehive kiln titled houselife at Medalta Museum, Medicine Hat, Alberta, 2017. Medalta is an historic site, a once thriving ceramic factory comprising now a museum, a contemporary art gallery, artist studios and residencies. A second short residency took place at Open Studio, Toronto in the winter of 2018 where both artists worked to realize their editioned artist books.

a topography of fingerprints – Penelope Stewart

ISBN 978-0-9877540-3-5

Artist Book Printed at Open Studio under the auspices of the Nick Novak Fellowship

Penelope Stewart (pinhole and digital photography) and Smokestack studio (digital)

 

Handbound edition and slip case by Reg Beatty

Paper Entrada 190gr,

Edition size 6, with 3 a/p

 

Hive – Laura Vickerson           

ISBN 978-0-9877540-2-8

Artist Book handprinted at Open Studio

Nick Shick,(letterpress), Anna Gaby-Trotz(coordination) Laine Groeneweg of Smokestack Studio (digital)

 

Handbound edition and slip case by Reg Beatty

Paper Sommerset Book 175gr,

Edition size 6, with 3 a/p

 

The artists would like to acknowledge the Canada Council for the Arts for their support of this full initiative. They would also like to extend a thank you to the Medalta Museum and to Open Studio.  Further, a thank you to Aaron Nelson, Noriko Masuda, and Susan McKinnon (Medalta) and the rest of the Medalta Team.  A thank you to Open Studio and Laine Groeneweg (Smokestack Studio) and Reg Beatty (bookbinding studio) for their help in printing and organization. A special thank you to Linda and Lawrence Gordon for their generous hospitality in Medicine Hat and personal thank you’s go to Greg Payce, Ken Vickerson, and Jean-Guy Haché.

©La Ruche Publishing June 2018­­

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