Œuvre d'art public

Partly Cleared, Partly Cultivated

Grant McConnell, Partly Cleared, Partly Cultivated, 1993
Location:
Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Artwork creator(s): 
McConnell, Grant
Text author(s): 
McConnell, Grant
Installation year: 
1993
Remarks on location: 

In the center of the downtown business district

Description: 

Photography placed in a billboard

Text of the artwork: 

CANADA NORTHWEST --- FREE LAND your land

Text theme: 
Territorial distribution in the era of colonization of Northwestern Canada
Artwork theme: 

Impact of Western colonization; politics of topography; land as property; territorial base for nationhood

History: 

Organized by Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The exhibition presents the artwork of artists Edward Poitras, Grant McConnell, Jamel Hassan and Kay WalkingStick. Guest: Joyce Whitebear Reed.

 

Event: Exhibition The post-colonial landscape: a billboard exhibition, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Event date(s): 
1993
Document(s): 

The post-colonial landscape: a billboard exhibition

Reed, Joyce Whitebear (1993).  The post-colonial landscape: a billboard exhibition. Saskatoon : Mendel Art Gallery, p. 12

Exiles and Others. The Post-Colonial Landscape

Moray, Gerta (1999).  Exiles and Others. The Post-Colonial Landscape. Blackflash. vol. 16.2, p. 12-15