I was walking home the other day and noticed a Canadian flag on one of the buildings. I went and checked it out and it turned out to be the Canadian Cultural Centre for France. On exhibit was works by Diana Thorneycroft. Now I didn't particularly like her work and I certainly didn't "GEY IT" but I did take some pictures and you can judge for yourself.
Diana Thorneycroft is a Winnipeg artist who has exhibited various bodies of work across Canada, the United States and Europe, as well as in Moscow, Tokyo and Sydney. She is the recipient of numerous awards including an Assistance to Visual Arts Long-term Grant from the Canada Council, several Senior Arts Grants from the Manitoba Arts Council and a Fleck Fellowship from the Banff Centre for the Arts.
In this series "Group of Seven Awkward Moments", she investigate the relationship between the Canadian landscape and national identity. Reproductions of paintings by the famous Canadian collective The Group of Seven are used as backdrops to the dioramas she photographs.
It is through the use of the collective's iconic northern landscapes, which have come to symbolize Canada as a nation, combined with scenes of accidents, disasters, and bad weather that gives the work its edge. By pairing the tranquility of traditional landscape painting with black humour, the work conjures up topical and universally familiar landscapes fraught with anxiety and contradictions.
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