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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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Haliburton Forest Trail Symposium – 2009

 

Haliburton Forest Residency and Symposium, Ontario, Canada 2009

Reinhard Reitzenstein, artist and curator, organized a series of annual group residencies in the Haliburton Forest under the auspices of The Haliburton Forest Reserve. (A boreal forest in Northern Ontario). Warren Quigley, Mary Anne Barkhouse, Anne O’Callaghan, E.J. Lightman, Gayle Young and I were the selected artists for 2009.  As a group we camped in the forest not far from our individual exhibition sites which meant we could start early and work late.  In the early morning with coffee cup in hand I would head to my hut which I would eventually transform into a camera obscura. The hardest part was to seal all the cracks to keep out any extra light.