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After Landscape at The Tree Museum, Gravenhurst, Ontario
2010 Annual Exhibition  - Site Specific Installations by
Bev Hogg and Trish Roan (Australia), Penelope Stewart and Jeannie Thib (Canada)
Opening Reception: Sunday September 5, 2010   Noon to 5pm.
 
Jeannie Thib  Equivalents (Tree Museum) after Muniz, after Stieglitz  (detail) 2010

Jeannie Thib  Equivalents (Tree Museum) after Muniz, after Stieglitz  (detail) 2010
 
Directions: The Tree Museum is a 200 acre woodland lot near Gravenhurst. From Toronto head north on Hwy 400 and Hwy 11 to Doe Lake Road (Muskoka Road 6). Just north of Gravenhurst turn right (east) on Doe Lake Rd. Follow Doe Lake Rd for approximately 10 minutes and turn right at the blue Tree Museum sign. Park and walk in or take a wagon ride in at the opening. Wear sturdy walking shoes or hiking boots. My site is one of the first on the way in - about 1 k - and it is another 1.2 k to the centre of the site where the Tree Museum house/gallery is. There are outdoor contemporary art installations all along the route. There will be refreshments at the Tree Museum house/gallery at the opening. September and October are good months to visit and signs point the way to the installations for self directed visits.

 
For the past 13 years the Tree Museum has been a veritable laboratory for contemporary creativity in an outdoor space. It is a living and growing venue, a place where the curators Lightman and O'Callaghan set very flexible boundaries within which the invited artists explore and create site-specific work.   afterLandscape is an exhibition where four artists Penelope Stewart and Jeannie Thib (Canadian) and Australian Artists Bev Hogg and Trish Roan, were invited to explore what this landscape means to them. The artists have been selected not for their similarities but for their differences so that each takes on a particular role within the spectrum of the whole.

This is a multi year project which started in 2009, when EJ Lightman, Anne O'Callaghan, Penelope Stewart and Jeannie Thib where artists in residence in Canberra, Australia. The project will be completed in 2012 when all artists- Bev Hogg, EJ Lightman, Anne O'Callaghan, Trish Roan, Penelope Stewart and Jeannie Thib will exhibit at Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre, Canberra, Australia.

At this years Annual Opening on Sunday September 5,  we will  launch the 2008/2009 exhibition catalogue.

 
The Tree Museum and the artists  thank The Canada Council for the Arts, The Ontario Arts Council and the Walter & Duncan Gordon Foundation, MAG massart guide and RHEN Communications Group for their support of the 2010 exhibition. We also wish to acknowledge the participation of Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre, Namadgi National Park, The Australia National University School of Art, Canberra Glassworks and Megalo Print Studio, all based in Canberra, ACT Australia.

 
http://www.canadacouncil.ca/ | http://www.arts.on.ca | http://www.gordonfn.org/  
http://www.rhen.com/  |  http://www.massartguide.com/

 

 
Currently there are 27 works on site by the following artists.
 

Michael Belmore * J. Lynn Campbell * John Dickson * Ellen Dijkstra * Simon Frank * Noel Harding
Deeter Hastenteufel * Jaffa Laam Lam * Francis LeBouthillier
E.J. Lightman * Ryszard Litwiniuk * Gwen MacGregor * Dyan Marie * Lisa Neighbour
Anne O'Callaghan * Nancy Paterson * Ed Pien * Barry Prophet 
Reinhard Reitzenstein  * Jocelyne Belcourt Salem * Orest Tataryn 
Peter von Tiesenhausen * Wen-Chih Wang * Tim Whiten * Badanna Zack

 



 
EJ Lightman & Anne O'Callaghan, curators
The Tree Museum,
1634 Doe Lake Road/ Muskoka Road 6
Gravenhurst, Ontario P1P 1R3
Canada
www.thetreemuseum.ca
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Mailing address
11 Wigan Crescent
Ontario. M3H 3A3
EJ Lightman-email ejlightman@hotmail.com
Anne O'Callaghan-email current@attglobal.net