Articulation at VCA

On the left hand side of the upstairs room:
'The Day the Queen came to Tea' - mine and Donna's 'All That Glitters Is Not Gold'....

...and next to that my 'Cryosphere'.

On the end wall: my 'Black Rock~White Cliffs~Blue Sea' and Wendy's 'Frobisher' portrait.

Also, my 'Compass With Lattitude'. All in the 'Frobisher' body of work.

Articulation Exhibits

This is Wendy's Links response to 'Multi-colour, wearable, beads. She said she had fun 'going completely over the top with this mask.'

In the upstairs room is 2 bodies of work - Winnipeg and Rainforest.
on the left is Vickie's 'Big Sky Country' and my 'Walls Talk'.

Ingrid's 'Night' and 'Day' and Vickie's 'The Colours That Lie Within', both Winnipeg works.

Left: ReBecca's 'Winter Shore', below Wendy's 'Winnipeg Winter - The Kelly Building' and on the right her 'Gates Puzzle'.

Links at Victoria College of Art

In the 2nd room is the Links body of work.
We gave each other 3 words: a colour, a technique, an inspiration and we produced small works interpreting those words.

Green, setacolor, garden and Purple, pipe cleaner, perplexed.

Green, setacolor, garden and Orange, southern, sunfire and Red, paper, transition.

ReBecca surprised us all by producing sculptural forms, dolls, each one representing a member of the group.

Badlands & Rainforest

As you walk into the first room, on the left is Donna's 'Fallen Leaves' and Ingrid's 'Forest Vessel'

Here is Ingrid talking about her work while leading a tour of about 40 people around the exhibition.

Next, along the wall (a covered blackboard) is Donna's 'Arbutus' and my 'Fossil Bed'.

Back to the Rainforest with my 'Regression' and Donna's 'Yellow Cedar' and 'Sitka Spruce'.

First Exhibition Space

This is the view on the right as one enters the 1st of 3 exhibition spaces.
'Reading The Past II' - mine
'Hoodoos' - Ingrid Lincoln
'A Hole of My Own' - Vickie Newington
'A Walk in the Park' - Leann Clifford

'Fallen Leaves' - Donna
'Sucession' - mine

'Sleeping Giants' - mine
'Outwash' - mine

This is a poor image and you can't see the works but it gives you an idea of how we worked with the space to find the best place for each work.
The 2 square works are Donna's and the round one is Miriam Birkenthal's.
This collection of 3 illustrates the wide range of materials and techniques Articulation members use to express their ideas and to tell their stories.

The Hanging

Friday morning Wendy and Bob hang the last works.

People coming to the exhibition in the Victoria College of Art, open the front doors and see my 'Reading the Past I' from the Badlands body of work.

Then they look up the stairs, to see Vickie Newington's Winnipeg - 'The Colours That Lie Within', which leads to the 3rd room of the exhibition.

Continuing along the corridor visitors see 2 works from Articulation's next body of work, Prairie, just a taster of what is coming next. These 2 works are by Leann Clifford,'Wheat' and 'Dirt Devils'( a poor image of this work, it is much richer in colour than shown and has lots of layers).

Hanging

... after the coffee break, back to hanging.
Wendy has her own personal engineer who solves the technical difficulties of installing her work in the wide variety of venues Articulation exhibits in.

...hmmmm what to put where, next....?

The hanging team had lunch at 4:00 in a nearby cafe.....

...then back to hanging.....

Narrative Articulations

The morning of the hanging began with looking at each of the spaces we had to hang work in the college then unwrapping the works and putting them in the rooms where they would would be hung.

The work was grouped into 5 bodies of work: Badlands - Dinosaur provincial park, Alberta, Frobisher - ice and northern lights and the Canadian opera 'Frobisher', Winnipeg - architecture in downtown Winnipeg, Rain Forest - forest ecosystems on Vancouver Island, LINKS - small work inspired by 3 words we each gave each other, a colour, a material and an inspiration.
We also had 2 works from our next body of work - Farm - a study of the Saskatchewan prairies and farm life.
The 3 Articulation members had their wonderful husbands to help with the hanging.

Barbara McCaffrey, the Textile Arts member of the College Advisory Committee and Professor Peter Such, President of the college, worked together with Nancy Ruffolo, Vice President, to produce a catalogue for the exhibition. Barbara also produced all of the labels for the 60 works.

Derek and Wendy during our welcome coffee break mid-afternoon.

Victoria College of Art Exhibition

The post office delivered more art work yesterday. This morning I have been gathering up all of the things we will need to hang the show.
Wendy and Derek will be in the middle of the Rockies at the moment as they drive over to the island today.
I am about to go out to the airport to pick up Ingrid and Bob who are flying to the island.

I have also spent the morning planning the exhibition layout.
This is the Drawing Room at the college where I plan to hang Articulation's most recent body of work, Rainforest. This probably where the Opening Reception/Open House will be held and the location of all the demos and workshop help over the 2 weekends the exhibition is up.
During the Open House on Friday evening, 6:30 p.m. to whenever, most of the faculty will be present also so people interested in taking a course at the college can meet up with the instructors. Of course there will be nibbles and drinks too so it should be a great evening.

This is the Photography/Print Room (de-blacked out) where I plan to install the Winnipeg body of work. It is down stairs in the lower level.

This is the Art History/Art Therapy Room where the Links body of work will go.
That's the plan anyway. It is always good to go into a project with a plan and then keep flexible. Ultimately we will put the work where it looks its best. And it will all look so good in this lovely 100 year old building that was built as a place of learning.

Victoria College of Art + Articulation

I thought I would show you some 'before' shots of the spaces in the Victoria College of Art that will be transformed by a retropsective of Articulation's 1st 5 bodies of work.

Work has started to arrive in Victoria by mail. Wendy will be driving out to Victoria this week bringing work from the 3 Calgary members. Ingrid will be flying from Winnipeg bringing work with her.

Altogether there will be 60 works.

We begin hanging the work on Thursday. We will be working hard to settle each work in its place by the opening on Friday 27th at 6:30 pm.