Luanne Martineau Explained

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.

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.

Select exhibitions

Notes and References

  1. Web site: B.C. Visual Artists Receive Awards. 2007.
  2. Web site: Faculty. www.concordia.ca. 2019-03-08.
  3. Web site: Luanne Martineau. MAC Montréal. en-US. 2019-03-08.
  4. Web site: An Interview with Luanne Martineau. www.gallery.ca. en. 2019-03-09.
  5. Web site: Luanne Martineau – Art Gallery of Windsor. 2012.
  6. Web site: Luanne Martineau. MAC Montréal. en-US. 2019-03-09.
  7. Web site: VIVA Award Recipients 1988–2017. The Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation. en-CA. 2019-03-08.
  8. Web site: Sobey Art Award – Past Awards. www.gallery.ca. en. 2019-03-08.
  9. Web site: Artefacts Canada. Government of Canada. Department of Canadian Heritage. app.pch.gc.ca. 2019-03-09.
  10. Web site: Untitled Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. aggv.ca. 2019-03-09.
  11. Web site: Take a Knee. www.gallery.ca. en. 2019-03-09.
  12. Web site: LOVE LETTERS TO THE SHIV ARTIST. alberta.emuseum.com. en. 2019-03-09.
  13. Web site: Vancouver Art Gallery. www.vanartgallery.bc.ca. 2019-03-09.
  14. Web site: Women's Work. L'Inconnue.
  15. Web site: COMPRESSION – Western Exhibitions. en-US. 2019-03-09.
  16. Web site: Fait main / Hand made. Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ). en. 2019-03-09.
  17. Web site: Beyond the Edges: Art & Geometry. Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. 2019-03-09.
  18. Web site: The Green of Her. www.oakvillegalleries.com. en. 2019-03-09.
  19. Web site: All membranes are porous. Gallery. Kamloops Art. Kamloops Art Gallery. en. 2019-03-09.
  20. Web site: Luanne Martineau – Art Gallery of Windsor. 2012.
  21. Web site: Past. Brock University. en-CA. 2019-03-09.
  22. Web site: Exhibition Luanne Martineau. MAC Montréal. en-US. 2019-03-09.
  23. Web site: Vancouver Art Gallery. www.vanartgallery.bc.ca. 2019-03-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20180802071451/https://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/the_exhibitions/exhibit_how_soon_is_now.html. 2018-08-02. dead.
  24. Web site: Peculiar Culture: The Contemporary Baroque Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. aggv.ca. 2019-03-09.
  25. Web site: Luanne Martineau Bed Sitter. Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver. en-CA. 2019-03-09.

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