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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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Cloud Atlas Panorama & Photography Collection (2023)

Cloud Atlas Panorama (2022)

cloud panorama, 2022, 12 diazo prints,
6’ h x 12’ w,  1/1
collection of the artist

cloud atlas began with ideas of capturing cloud images in numerous places where I travelled not as travel notes but rather the idea that the clouds had no boundaries and moved as vibrant matter throughout the atmosphere shifting in form and muscularity. This mutable landscape sails far above the politically determined borders, the longitude and latitude of colonies, wars, and the evidence of climate change below.

Mining my collection of cloud images, I found a series of cloud panorama photographs I had taken. I thought about these clouds and the apertures they created. This singular work consists of 12 pieces of Diazo imprinted paper hung lightly at the top with magnets. This allows each sheet to hang separately and to move as the viewer moves along the 12ft expanse. Scale becomes important as the body feels absorbed by the spread and imagined movement of the cloud.

The single prints are excerpted from the artist book cloud atlas.