Luanne martineau biography of alberta
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| Installation View, 2009. Image courtesy of the Artist. © Luanne Martineau |
Luanne Martineau is an Assistant Professor of Drawing and Art Theory at the University of Victoria. Born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in 1970, Martineau studied art at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and the Alberta College of Art & Design, completing her MFA at the University of British Columbia in 1995. Martineau’s wool sculptures and drawings explore the places in between art genres, engaging a long tradition of social satire within contemporary art. Combining various methods of craft and the legacies of 1960s fine art, Martineau blurs the boundaries between style and ideology as well as high modernist art and the baseness of the body. Martineau was the recipient of the 2007 Shadbolt Foundation’s VIVA Award for the Visual Arts, and in 2009 represented British Columbia for the Sobey Art Award of Canada. A guest lecturer at the Tate Modern for the Banff Centre
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Webbing the Nest
So right now, The Knitter Woman stands alone. Silent. But she wasn’t meant to. She’s somewhat of an Amazonian creature. Standing atop two muscular yet truncated white plaster legs, her torso is an A-line steel cage, whose framework is clad in pastel pulped and pressed paper; her head is a hexagonal crown of the same black metal and glass. She has three monocles for eyes, and stands armless, tucked up and tall, teetering slightly on her knocked knees. She’s like a motionless marionette, a Bauhausian dancer frozen in mid-step at a 1920s costume party. She’s a hollow frame, an exoskeleton iced in baroque filigree. She’s slightly messy, slightly dishevelled, yet still a classy gal. She’s emotionless but also fully transparent. We know exactly what she is thinking because we can see her thought process, what she is working through, what she is spinning on. Because inside her sparkly cerebrum, a tiny motor clickity-clicks away—a series of hooks dancing around a spin
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Luanne Martineau
Luanne Martineau (born 1970) is a contemporary, multimedia Canadian artist best known for her hand-spun and felted wool sculptures. Her work engages with social satire as well as feminist textile practice.
Life
[edit]Martineau was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. She earned a fine art diploma from the Alberta College of Art & Design in 1993, and a Masters of Fine Art from the University of British Columbia in 1995. She was previously an associate curator at the Art Gallery of Calgary, and later a professor of theory and curatorial studies at the University of Victoria.[1] She is now based in Montreal, where she fryst vatten an associate professor of painting and drawing at Concordia University.[2]
Work
[edit]Martineau has been exhibiting across Canada and internationally since the mid-1990s. Her work blurs the boundaries between craft and fine art, combining labour-intensive female handwork with questions about the politics of the body, s