Camp - Guelph, Ontario, Canada
N 43° 31.971 W 080° 13.952
17T E 562012 N 4820275
Located in the Donald Forster Sculpture Park in Guelph, Ontario.
Waymark Code: WM7TFC
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 12/01/2009
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A campfire, coffeepot, boots and sleepingbag forms this camp.
Susan Detwiler
Guelph artist Susan Detwiler creates installation, sculpture, video, photography and works on paper in response to her daily observations and interactions with the natural environment. The exhibition Feral was her first major solo exhibition in a public art gallery. Through her work, Detwiler has grown accustomed to exiting her acculturated roles (mother/artist/teacher), in an effort to turn feral: to exist in a natural undomesticated state, or to revert to a wild state. Her current practice is founded on this principle. Detwiler strips her prescribed societal roles and redefines her relationship to the world. She has learned to adapt to, and better understand, the wilderness. The exhibition included two new video works accompanied by sculptural elements displayed in the gallery. Part of the exhibition was a new commission for the Sculpture Park which is the fourth artist’s bench. Titled Camp, the bronze and stone sculpture was the thirty-first installation in the Art Centre’s sculpture park. Camp was commissioned with funds raised by the Art Centre Volunteers with financial support from the Canada Council for the Arts Acquisition Assistance Program, 2005.
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