Luanne Martineau

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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.

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Life

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 is an associate professor of painting and drawing at Concordia University. [2]

Work

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, style and ideology. Her "drulptures" are three-dimensional felt assemblages that are not literal interpretations of the human form, but which have bodily shapes and grotesque fleshy resemblances. [3] [4] In 2010–2012, the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal organized a touring exhibition of Martineau's work. [5] This exhibition was accompanied by a catalogue that included essays by Lesley Johnstone, Dan Adler, and Shirley Madill. [6]

Awards

In 2007, Martineau with the winner of the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation's VIVA Award for the Visual Arts. [7] In 2005 she was long-listed for the Sobey Art Award, and in 2009 she was shortlisted. [8]

Collections

Martineau's work is in the collections of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, [9] the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, [10] the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, [11] the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, the Vancouver Art Gallery, and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, [12] amongst others.

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  2. ↑ "Faculty". www.concordia.ca. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
  3. ↑ "Luanne Martineau". MAC Montréal. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
  4. ↑ "An Interview with Luanne Martineau". www.gallery.ca. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
  5. ↑ "Luanne Martineau – Art Gallery of Windsor". 2012.
  6. ↑ "Luanne Martineau". MAC Montréal. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
  7. ↑ "VIVA Award Recipients 1988–2017". The Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
  8. ↑ "Sobey Art Award – Past Awards". www.gallery.ca. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
  9. ↑ Government of Canada, Department of Canadian Heritage. "Artefacts Canada". app.pch.gc.ca. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
  10. ↑ "Untitled | Art Gallery of Greater Victoria". aggv.ca. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
  11. ↑ "Take a Knee". www.gallery.ca. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
  12. ↑ "LOVE LETTERS TO THE SHIV ARTIST". alberta.emuseum.com. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
  13. ↑ "Vancouver Art Gallery". www.vanartgallery.bc.ca. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
  14. ↑ L'Inconnue. "Women's Work".
  15. ↑ "COMPRESSION – Western Exhibitions" . Retrieved 2019-03-09.
  16. ↑ "Fait main / Hand made". Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ). Retrieved 2019-03-09.
  17. ↑ "Beyond the Edges: Art & Geometry". Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
  18. ↑ "The Green of Her". www.oakvillegalleries.com. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
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