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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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Orbs #3, Jack Pine , lambda archival print,   20” x 20”

Orbs #1, Lake and Sky, lambda archival print,   20” x 20”

Orbs #2, Twin Pines, lambda archival print,   20” x 20”

Orbs #5, Beaver Pond, lambda archival print,   20” x 20”

In 2009-10 I was part of an exchange residency between The Tree Museum, Gravenhurst and Craft ACT in Canberra, Australia. While in Canberra I was fortunate to be placed at Canberra Glassworks where I worked to create a glass beeskep. While there I create a second project which was a small hand held orb of glass. After experiencing the inverted image reflected in the glass cloche knobs (cloche suite) I thought I would like to have an orb that I could actually hold in my hand and use as a lens to photograph through. I liked the idea of inverting the landscape come a camera obsura. With the hot glass group at the Glassworks I was able to make my orb. In the summer of 2010 I was in residence at The Tree Museum and here I experimented with orb as lens. The results are this series.