Marian Penner Bancroft (Canadian, b. 1947) is a Vancouver-based photographer and visual artist and Professor Emerita at Emily Carr University of Art and Design. While multifaceted and ever evolving, her practice has largely centered on the intersection between socio-cultural history, personal memory and photography. More recently, Bancroft’s work has focused on investigating the relationship between photographic images, history, music and mapping strategies in terms of their capacity to represent landscapes. Bancroft studied at UBC, the Vancouver School of Art and Ryerson Polytechnical Institute. Bancroft has exhibited extensively in solo exhibitions at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Republic Gallery, Galerie de l’UQAM, Or Gallery and Presentation House Gallery. She has been featured in group exhibitions including C. 1983 (2012) at Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver; SLOW: Relations + Practices (2010) at Centre A, Vancouver and Wack: Art And The Feminist Revolution (2008) at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Bancroft has won numerous awards including the Audain Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts (2012), the Higashikawa Award for photographic Achievements (2018) and the Canada Council Paris Studio Residency Award (2005).
Marian Penner Bancroft’s Two Places at Once (1983) presents a set of photographed landscapes across silver gelatin prints and an artist book. The dreamlike landscapes, taken over the course of a single day between Vancouver and Chilliwack, raise questions of being in one place but from another, and the spaces in between. In this artist talk that took place during the exhibition Start Somewhere Else: Works from the Collection, Bancroft discusses the ways the work speaks to place, dreams, personal and family histories and connections between near and far.
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Marian Penner Bancroft (Canadian, b. 1947) is a Vancouver-based photographer and visual artist and Professor Emerita at Emily Carr University of Art and Design. While multifaceted and ever evolving, her practice has largely centered on the intersection between socio-cultural history, personal memory and photography. More recently, Bancroft’s work has focused on investigating the relationship between photographic images, history, music and mapping strategies in terms of their capacity to represent landscapes. Bancroft studied at UBC, the Vancouver School of Art and Ryerson Polytechnical Institute. Bancroft has exhibited extensively in solo exhibitions at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Republic Gallery, Galerie de l’UQAM, Or Gallery and Presentation House Gallery. She has been featured in group exhibitions including C. 1983 (2012) at Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver; SLOW: Relations + Practices (2010) at Centre A, Vancouver and Wack: Art And The Feminist Revolution (2008) at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Bancroft has won numerous awards including the Audain Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts (2012), the Higashikawa Award for photographic Achievements (2018) and the Canada Council Paris Studio Residency Award (2005).
Start Somewhere Else: Works from the Collection centres around Krista Belle Stewart's video installation Seraphine, Seraphine (2015) to consider doubling – and duplicities – in personal and historical narratives. Through an interest in the archive and how stories are told between the individual and institutional, Stewart's practice takes up the complexities of intention and interpretation made possible by archival material.
From June until August, the Belkin's outdoor screen will exhibit Marian Penner Bancroft's the rifting of Pangaea (2019) daily from 9 am until 9 pm. Evocative of breaking and shifting continents, the rifting of Pangaea takes a domestic view of large scale geologic and time changes.
[more]Join curators Melanie O'Brian and Krista Belle Stewart for a tour of Start Somewhere Else: Works from the Collection, which centres around Stewart's video installation Seraphine, Seraphine (2015) to consider doubling – and duplicities – in personal and historical narratives. O'Brian and Stewart will walk through the exhibition and offer insights into the themes, conversations and points of resonance between Stewart's and the other works drawn from the Belkin's permanent collection.
[more]Start Somewhere Else: Works from the Collection centres around Krista Belle Stewart’s video installation Seraphine, Seraphine (2015) to consider doubling – and duplicities – in personal and historical narratives. Connecting to Stewart’s questioning of authorial representation and intention versus interpretation of archival materials, Start Somewhere Else considers how stories are told between the individual and institution. The list below includes readings expanding on themes and ideas in the exhibition that were compiled by graduate and undergraduate researchers at the Belkin.
[more]Melinda Mollineaux's Cadboro Bay presents photographic fragments of a site on Vancouver Island where Emancipation Day picnics were held every August 1. In this artist talk that took place during the exhibition Start Somewhere Else: Works from the Collection, Mollineaux discusses the visibility and erasures of Black lives and communities at Sungayka, her use of pinhole photography, and how Cadboro Bay continues to resonate through recent renewed interrogations into Canada's erasure of Black history.
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