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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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Montecastello de Vibio, Italy 2009, 2012

Montecastello de Vibio, Italy

A Pinhole workshop with Dianne Bos in Italy

In 2009 I was looking to learn more about Pinhole photography. I was about to build a walk in camera obscura in the Haliburton Forest, Ontario and thought I should have a deeper understanding of the physics of how it actually worked. In the spring I came to hear that award winning pinhole photographer Dianne Bos was going to be giving a residency/workshop in Italy. I signed up and prepared to spend two weeks in the beautiful Umbrian countryside at Montecastello de Vibeo, learning about the pinhole. I built a single pinhole camera from various sized boxes, a coffee can (illy makes the best camera) and eventually a stereoscopic (two pinholes) box camera. Once I began I was hooked and I returned in 2012 to continue studying the method. I figure it will take me at least 10 years but I have begun.

Camera Obscura

Medusa Suite

www.diannebos.ca