Fine Arts Speaker Series: Colleen Wolstenholme, Friday September 16 @ 11:30

[Tara L Cooper]

The Department of Fine Arts invites you to attend a lecture by visiting artist, Colleen Wolstenholme on Friday September 16th, at 11:30 in East Campus Hall room 1219. Wolstenhome's lecture is held in conjunction with her exhibition Synaesthesiac, which opens this Thursday at UWAG.

Recognized for her larger-than-life sculptural renderings of pharmaceuticals, particularly anti-depressants commonly prescribed to women, Synaesthesiac is a blend of established and new work. Spill, a series of 20 cast plaster pills is paired alongside the debut of an eponymous wall-based collage developed in collaboration with New York artist Gillian McCain. Wolstenholme's artwork evokes the detrimental side of prescription medicines and her work draws parallels between healthy and traumatized states of mind.

Colleen Wolstenhome received her BFA from the Nova Scotia School of Art and Design and her MFA from the State University of New York at New Paltz. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown; Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax; Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary; Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge; Artspeak, Vancouver; Real Art Ways, Hartford; and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto.  Her artwork has been featured in numerous magazines and journals including People, The London Sunday Times, Psychology Today, The Globe & Mail, C International, The Los Angeles Times and The New York Times. She is the recipient of numerous grants and was shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award in 2002. The artist lives and works in Hansport, Nova Scotia. Colleen Wolsteholme is represented by Art Mur, Montreal. www.colleenwolstenholme.com<http://www.colleenwolstenholme.com/>
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