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ARTIST NAME: Colwell, Diane
ACCESSION NUMBER: 1987.040.002
TITLE: SHADOW AND TALL FIR
DATE: 1986
CATEGORY: Photography
MEDIUM: colour polaroid
DIMENSIONS: Image: 7.9 x 7.6 cm (3 1/8 x 3 in.) Sheet: 10.7 x 8.8 cm (4 3/16 x 3 7/16 in.)
COLLECTION: Alberta Foundation for the Arts


OTHER HOLDINGS: Colwell, Diane
ARTIST BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: Diane Colwell was born in Calgary in 1959. Diane earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1986 and her Master of Fine Arts in 2010, both from the University of Calgary. She has participated in residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies and the University of Lethbridge. She is a Vice President and Secretary of the Board of the Stride Art Gallery Association in Calgary. She has also been active in the art community as a juror, lecturer and volunteer. Working with photographic, mixed media and video installations, Diane combines elements of environmentalism and mountaineering to create visually stunning pieces that are both celebratory and contemplative. With a deep love of mountains, Diane explores her own relationships to the environment and documents past and present mountain culture, highlighting the changes the landscape has gone through over time. Her work has been shown in exhibitions across Canada. Her works are held in the collections of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Telus, British Petroleum, the Glenbow Museum, Suncor Resources Group, Sunshine Village Resort, the Art Gallery of Alberta, Trans Canada Pipelines and the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, as well as in a number of private collections.


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