Name Marian Bancroft | ||
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Education University of British Columbia, Ryerson University | ||
Marian penner bancroft we re too early in the game
Marian Penner Bancroft (born 1947) is a Canadian artist and photographer based in Vancouver. She is an associate professor at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design, where she has been teaching since 1981. She has previously also taught at Simon Fraser University and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She is a member of the board of Artspeak Gallery and is represented in Vancouver by the Republic Gallery.
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- Marian penner bancroft we re too early in the game
- Conversation Tarah Hogue Marian Penner Bancroft and Tania Willard Unsettled Sites
- Life and work
- Publications
- Selected Exhibitions
- Public Art
- Selected Collections
- Selected Awards
- References
Her current interests are the intersections of the photographic image with history, music and mapping strategies in relation to representations of landscape.
In addition to photography, her work has included text, sound, drawing, sculpture and more recently, video.
Conversation | Tarah Hogue, Marian Penner Bancroft and Tania Willard: Unsettled Sites
Life and work
Marian Penner Bancroft was born in Chilliwack, British Columbia, and currently lives and works in Vancouver. She studied at the University of British Columbia, the Vancouver School of Art (now Emily Carr University of Art and Design) and Ryerson Polytechnical Institute (Now Ryerson University) in Toronto.
National and international exhibitions include those at the Vancouver Art Gallery and at the Centre Culturel Canadien in Paris. In addition to photography, her work has included text, sound, drawing, sculpture and more recently, video.
Publications
Two Places at Once: Transfigured Wood Part 4 (1986) Western Front Society publications, Vancouver BC
Selected Exhibitions
Spiritlands: t/here: Marian Penner Bancroft, Selected Photo Works 1975-2000 Vancouver Art Gallery (2012)
By Land and Sea (Prospect and Refuge) Presentation House Gallery (1999)
Public Art
Boulevard at Yaletown-Roundhouse (2014) Canada Line Subway Station, Vancouver
Root System, Pipeline Road, Stanley Park (2007-2008, 6 month installation), Davie and Pacific Boulevard, commissioned by TransitBC and the Canada Line
Lost Streams, Kitsilano (1995–96), City of Vancouver Park Board, permanent site-specific installation