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Born 1956 Claresholm, Alberta Known for Photography, Sculpture, Installation art Website | ||
Diana Thorneycroft (born 1956 in Claresholm, Alberta) is a Winnipeg-based artist whose work has exhibited nationally and internationally. The recipient of numerous awards, Thorneycroft works primarily in photography, drawing, and sculpture/installation.
Contents
- Education
- Canadians and Americans best friends forever its complicated
- A Peoples History
- Group of Seven Awkward Moments
- There Must Be 50 Ways to Kill Your Lover
- The Canadiana Martyrdom Series
- Collections
- References
Education
Diana Thorneycroft graduated with an MFA from the University of Wisconsin in 1980 and with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) from the University of Manitoba in 1979.
Canadians and Americans (best friends forever … it's complicated)
A series of digital photographs, Canadians and Americans (best friends forever … it's complicated) looks at iconic moments and figures in American and Canadian history to explore the unbalanced relationship and power dynamic between the two neighbouring countries.
A People's History
Looking at the horrific history of crimes and atrocities perpetrated against vulnerable people in Canada, A People's History is a series of photographs based on dioramas created by the artist.
Group of Seven Awkward Moments
Group of Seven Awkward Moments is a photographic series which employs black humour to look at the effect of the mythology of the Canadian landscape on the construct of Canadian identity. The series features dioramas of histories that are part of Canadian symbolism paired with backgrounds of reproductions of paintings by The Group of Seven.
There Must Be 50 Ways to Kill Your Lover
This series of drawings explores violence in the media through the behaviour of popular cartoon characters.
The Canadiana Martyrdom Series
The photographs is this series uses paraphernalia depicting Canadian tourism, identity, and culture to discuss spectacles of martyrdom and apathy to human suffering.