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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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La Ruche Noire and La Ruche Blanche (2009)

La Ruche Noire and La Ruche Blanche (2009)

In 2009 I was invited to be a part of a Canadian/Australian artist exchange.  Part 1 brought four Canadian artists from Canada to Canberra.  Each of us was hosted by an art centre in Canberra and I was lucky enough to be a guest at Canberra Glassworks. Ruth Allen a glass artist from Melbourne was my assistant as I am not a glass artist and needed an expert to facilitate my complex project.  Ruth was an excellent match and without her and Josh Rowell my project would not have happened.

To follow the story of how Ruth led the way click to Ruth Allens website – link here.

It was a long process but very exciting and the result was two beautiful beeskeps in glass, one clear and the other of  black crystal.  I can’t thank Ruth enough for her generosity and her expertise and this is an experience I will always treasure.

Canberra Glassworks

Excerpts of a Conversation