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Gallery Stratford begins new year of shows
Two new exhibitions and a suite of
prints from the permanent collection
started the New Year at Gallery
Stratford Sunday, Jan. 5.
Swiss-born, Toronto artist Therese
Bolliger continues the gallery’s
ongoing annual series Contemporary
Canadian Drawing with part four:
Diagnosis: A Work in Progress.
Working on paper with ink, Bolliger
looks at the construction of identity
through an exploration of the body.
Juxtaposing images and words in a
grid-like installation the artist wants
the viewer to ponder how fragile and
vulnerable the body can be. The inte
rior body has become increasingly
demystified through new technolo
gies and these point to a new and
potentially unresolved understand
ing of the relationship between the
mind and the body.
Western culture has generally sep
arated the two, however, Bolliger
expresses “a desire to see the rela
tionship between mind and body not
as two disparate and discontinuous
entities, but as two parts enfolding
and informing each other.”
Therese Bolliger is assistant pro
fessor of art and art history in a joint
program of Sheridan College and the
University of Toronto. She has also
been an instructor at the Ontario
College of Art and Design, Toronto
and the University of Guelph.
Drawings and installations of
Therese Bolliger have been shown in
galleries in Ontario in Toronto,
London, Kingston, Hamilton and
Oakville.
Nationally her work has been
exhibited in Lethbridge,
Cornerbrook, Vancouver, Kamloops
and Halifax, among others. Therese
Bolliger has been a featured artist
internationally as well, showing in
such centres as Basel, Switzerland;
Madrid, Spain; Florence, Italy;
Rochester, USA; and Brussels,
Belgium. She has also been the
recipient of many Canada Council
grants and is widely collected in
both public and private collections.
Relic by Jennifer Angus investi
gates some ideas very similar to
Bolliger’s but in quite a different
format. Using real bugs harvested
and imported from Malaysia, Angus
reproduces a pattern on the gallery
walls, loosely based on the wallpa
per patterns of William Morris and
the Liberty companies of the mid-to-
late 19th century. These companies
created wall papers lush and abun
dant with flora and fauna.
Relic alludes to this mediated his
toric expression of nature, however,
creates a tension of repulsion and
attraction through the three-dimen
sional use of exotic insects and
sound. The installation occupies a
12-by 12-foot room covering walls
that are just over eight-feet high.
The artist says, “The installation is
a visual metaphor for our unseen
world. We are surrounded,
enveloped in the environment. A
kind of giddy hysteria sets in.”
Canadian-born Jennifer Angus
lives and teaches in Madison,
Wisconsin. She is assistant professor
in the School of Human Ecology,
University of Wisconsin. She
received her Master of Fine Art from
the School of the Art Institute of
Chicago and her Bachelor of Fine
Art from the Nova Scotia College of
Art and Design in Halifax.
Working out of an interest in tex
tiles, Angus has exhibited widely
throughout Ontario and the USA.
She has received numerous grants
and awards from granting agencies,
foundations and through her partici
pation in juried and invitational
exhibitions.
As a complement and bridge
between the two exhibitions, a suite
of prints from Gallery Stratford’s
permanent collection by Vancouver
artist, Torrie Groening entitled
Studio Tests of the Senses will also
be on exhibit. Six richly-coloured
silkscreen prints present pseudo-sci
entific and artistic examinations of
the senses in the fotmat of experi
ments set up in the artist’s studio.
Romanticizing scientific investiga
tion, they also point to the creative
and subjective nature of trying to
know the real world through the
body’s senses.
Admission to Gallery Stratford is
Adults $5, Seniors and Students $4,
children under 12 and Gallery
Stratford Members are free. Gallery
Stratford hours are Tuesday to
Sunday, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. and
Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
January Snowmobiling Environment Month
During January, the Ontario
Federation of Snowmobile Clubs
(OFSC) invites snowmobilers to
help keep nature beautiful by partic
ipating in National Snowmobiling
Environment Month.
This initiative, organized national
ly by the Canadian Council of
Snowmobile Organizations (CCSO),
encourages snowmobilers to reaf
firm that they care about the envi
ronment by practising the following
recommended behaviours:
• leave tracks, not trash
• maintain your sled
• protect wildlife
• leave your sled unmodified
• stay on the trail
• respect sensitive areas
• embrace new technologies
“Snowmobilers are family people
who have a good news story to tell
about their role as responsible stew
ards over many years,” stated CCSO
President Bob Walsh of New
Brunswick. “As an off-road activity,
snowmobiling relies on keeping
nature beautiful for both our own
enjoyment of winter and as the foun
dation for the over $3 billion of
annual business that snowmobiling
brings to snowbelt communities
throughout rural Canada.”
Snowmobiles account for less
than one per cent of all the motor
fuel burned annually in this country.
New technologies, such as four-
stroke engines and semi-direct injec
tion, are continually improving this
quintessentially Canadian recre
ational activity.
Through a new partnership with
Join the
Alzheimer Society
at the Lyceum Theatre
284 Josephine St., Wingham
January 13 at 8 pm
or January 14
at 1 pm
to view the movie
“IRIS”
Admission is $5.00
Call 482-1482. or
1-800'561-5012 for information
Scoutrees For Canada, snowmobil
ers are also committed to expanding
existing free planting programs,
which continue to reclaim thousands
of acres of waste and eroded lands
and to provide wildlife with neces
sary food and shelter.
Most snowmobiling in Canada
occurs on 135,000 kilometres of
organized trails. The majority of
these corridors are seasonal, put in
place temporarily each winter by
local snowmobile clubs with a pri
mary objective of accommodating
and harmonizing with the natural
surroundings.
After two or three short months of
use, these trails often revert to their
natural state for the balance of the
year. During the winter, these snow
mobile trails generally define traffic
patterns for snowmobilers, encour
aging most sleds to stay on groomed
travel-ways and ensuring that their
presence in any one location is brief
and non-intrusive.
They also provide hard-packed,
energy-saving routes for winter
wildlife in search of forage and shel
ter.
“The entire surface area of
Canada’s snowmobile trails is about
the same as that of one small city,”
noted Walsh. “Given our very limit
ed area of operation, the short dura
tion of our riding season, and the
fact that much of nature is habitual
ly dormant in winter, studies show
that the environmental impact of
organized snowmobiling is minimal,
and National Snowmobiling
Environment Month serves as one
more way to keep it that way.”
The Ontario Federation of
Snowmobile Clubs is dedicated to
providing strong leadership and sup
port to member clubs and volunteers
to establish and maintain quality
snowmobile trails which are used in
a safe and environmentally responsi
ble manner to further the enjoyment
of organized snowmobiling.
The Canadian Council of
Snowmobile Organizations is dedi
cated to providing leadership and
support to organized snowmobiling
in Canada.
Buck & Doe
for
Dean Vincent &
Barb Finlayson
Sat., Jan. 11
BMG Community Centre
For tickets 523-9978
or 887-6429
$6/person
Dancing 9 pm - 1 am
Music by DJ
Lunch provided
Age of majority
Honorary Marching Mother
June Callwood
Oh, it's Nifty, we're both turning 50
Come help us celebrate Saturday, January 18th
Cranbrook Hall 8 p.m. Dance at 9:30
Casual dress Best wishes only
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