Feature Issues//CULTUREHALL: The Intimacy of Being Liminal

Check out this week's Culturehall issue, curated by Amy Fung and featuring my work alongside Alana Riley, Meera Margaret Singh (both good friends!) and Lewis and Taggart:

Feature Issue 59

Andrea

Culturehall

Just quick post to say I am excited to now be part of Culturehall, an online curated artist registry. Please click here for more information on my portfolio.

Amy

Online Store up and Running

Just a quick post to say my online store is up and running for anyone interested in purchasing a piece of art! Edition info and pricing is available for each print. More artwork will be posted in the coming weeks.

http://www.sarahfullerphotography.ca/store.html

Congrats to Daniel Barrow!

A very deserving artist for this award:

Daniel Barrow wins 2011 Sobey Art Award

Interesting article about the recent BICI conference at The Banff Centre

Here's a link to an article in Canadian Art written by Nancy Tousley about last weekend's "Are Curator's Unprofessional" Conference at the Banff Centre:

Are Curators Unprofessional? : Group Practices

I think it's interesting how she picked up on one of the things I noticed as an artist : the reluctance of the panelists to touch on the relationship/power relations between the artist and curator. I also really appreciated Ann Demester's candid presentation on her concerns within the larger cultural context and the increasing influence of right-wing politicians.

An interesting weekend.

The Tree Hand

Fall, Cougar Street

Victoria, Thanksgiving Weekend

Ed

Blackflash Fall 2010 Issue 28.1

I have some work featured in the 'Emerging' section of the Fall 2010 issue of Black Flash Magazine:

Auntie Megs

Grant Cornett

Just found out about Grant Cornett's Work on the Too Much Chocolate blog.

Awesome.

Banff Ramblings

The Road

Recently I drove back to Manitoba to visit family and go to the cottage. Here's a couple from the road.

Jack

The Boys

Calgary Dream Log

Hi,

I've just created a new blog for a project I will be bringing together over the next few months. It's a call for participation to help create an artwork called Calgary Dream Log. Essentially, I am asking residents of Calgary to submit a dream report of dreams that they experience the night of October 31, 2010. These narratives will then be constructed to form one stream of consciousness paragraph that will be installed as a text- based artwork in Calgary in January of 2011.

For more information, please visit:

http://calgarydreamlog.blogspot.com/

If you have friends or family in Calgary that might be interested in contributing a dream, please forward them this link as well!

Thanks,
Sarah

Work in Progress: Fence

Transient

More Dumpster Diving

From the ongoing dialogue I have going with the dumpster outside my house. I wonder if anyone else finds this as interesting as I do?

Ektar 100 from Kodak is the best.

Church Vine

Church on the corner of Banff Ave and Buffalo. Can you spot the beer can...

Rene

Big things that look like small things

As usual, I'm interested in the things in everyday life that look odd but are, in actuality, normal average things.

Take for example: this yellow truck. I pass it every time I walk to the studio, but I can't help feeling like it looks like a toy truck even when I stand right beside it. The other day I was shocked to see it being driven around town as I was secretly convinced it never moved from this parking spot in the industrial park. I like the way it looks like something from another time, or better yet, like a toy truck from another time. I not-so-secretly wish that I own it.

Red Flowers

I've been thinking a lot about the act of walking lately, and more specifically: the act of walking to my studio. This walk signifies for me an acknowledgement of my practice as an artist, so of course, being a photographer primarily, I'm documenting that act. It's been a nice way to slow down an observe the minutiae of everyday life, but also propels me to think about the transformation that occurs in the walk from work to apartment to studio. Here's another picture from along my route.

Banff

Photography Book Now: Peoples' Choice Vote

Just a quick post to say I've entered Blurb's Photography Book Now contest and wanted to post links to each of my entered books in case visitors to this blog feel like voting for my books! Peoples' Choice Voting ends August 20th.

Vote for The Lake here.

Vote for Amma's House here.

6 days

I've been thinking about the practice of observing my surroundings over time. In Banff I've been doing this by documenting my regular walks around town: to work, to the studio, etc. When I was at Hollyhock this spring, one of the things I decided to do was take one picture a day out the window of my bedroom. I had an amazing view of the ocean and I spent a lot of time just looking out that window. In any case, I felt it was an interesting study to see how the landscape changed from day to day. I tried to set up roughly the same view each time I took a picture. I'm interested in the relationships built with places through the ritual of continued visitation. Meditations on place.

Bird

Writer Weeding

I visited Edmonton a few weeks back for the opening of the National Portrait Gallery and spent time with my friend, and arts writer, Amy Fung. I took this impromptu shot before we went to the delicious New York Bagel for breakfast.

Wanderings

My Morning Walk

Thinking of a couple of things with this post. First off- the name for the post is inspired by Ernie Kroeger's book My Morning Walk, which chronicles a historical and present-day meander around the city of Kamloops. Ernie and I talked about it the last time I was in Kamloops, when I ran into him at Cowboy Coffee. In any case, Ernie used to live in Banff and used to be the Photography Facilitator at The Banff Centre so this all seems to connect to this picture I took on my morning walk to work last week. I guess it feels common enough for those of us that live in Banff - a deer at close range eating grass- however, there was something kind of interesting about this moment for me. Maybe it was the fact that this particular animal walked alongside me for about 5 minutes and wasn't frightened by my close proximity or the sound of my camera. Maybe it was the fact that I actually stopped to be amazed at the fact that this is commonplace for me? How bizarre.

Work in Progress

Morning, Banff

Black Flash Magazine May 2010

Very excited to be featured on the cover of Black Flash Magazine's May 2010 issue!

Click here for more info:

Black Flash

National Portrait Gallery Exhibition: Opening June 11, 2010, EDMONTON

Just a quick post to promote a group exhibition that I will be part of this coming June in Edmonton. The show is titled National Portrait Gallery and is curated by a group of local Edmonton artists and curators. It will be shown at Latitude 53 in Edmonton.

There is already some good press happening for the project. Check the links below for a more detailed description of the show:

Latitude 53 Blog

Edmonton Journal

Unedit My Heart

Lonely Hearts Left Behind

Banff is a transient town, with a constant flow of seasonal workers mixed in with the people who consider themselves local. I have a dumpster outside my apartment building that has supplied me with the odd lawn chair and objects I'm convinced I will use in some sort of 'art' project. It's also an interesting microcasm of the vibe of the town. These two images were taken in the last two weeks. The heart I found on a Saturday morning, the t.v and tree suggest remnants of Christmas circa 1982. Somehow they seem to paint an accurate portrait of Banff.

Shrubbery with Personality

I seem to be on this kick lately where I am taking portraits of bushes, shrubbery and trees that have some sort of anthropomorphic way about them. Not sure where it's leading. Here's one from my local neighbourhood.

Andreas Rutkauskas at Projex, Montreal

If you're in the Montreal neighbourhood this weekend, check out my friend Andreas' show at Projex, opening May 8th. Some of the work was produced in the Banff area and there are quite a number of interesting tales on Andreas' blog, the Virtual Hiker, in which he describes the sometimes hazardous process of getting the images. There are also musings on more recent rambles.

The Mountain Man

I know I've already posted about my friend Natelle's blog but she just put up a new story which I think is one of her best yet. It's called "The Mountain Man".
Check it out:

Natelle Fitzgerald Fiction

Hey Hot Shot Contenders Blog

Excited that my The Book of Dreams project has made it onto the Hey Hot Shot Contenders Blog.

Check it out !

Hey, Hot Shot!

The Screaming Tree

Hollyhock, 2010