Marion Penner Bancroft, Lost Streams of Kitsilano, 1995. Installation view, Vancouver Art Gallery, SPIRITLANDS: t/HERE: Marian Penner Bancroft, Selected Photo Works 1975-2000. 30 June-30 September 2012. Photo: Blaine Campbell, VAG

Artwork

Lost Streams of Kitsilano

Artist/Creator: Marian Penner Bancroft (Artist)
Date: 1995
ID #: BG4857

Physical Description

Medium: graphite, gelatin silver print, inkjet
Support: paper
Dimensions: –
Object Description: 8 round gelatin silver prints with copper frames, 102 x 102 x 5 cm each
8 round graphite on paper drawings with copper frames, 20.9 x 21.1 x 4.4 cm each
and 1 round digital print on paper, 20.4 x 20.4 x 3.8 cm

Marian Penner Bancroft mapped the streams that used to flow through the Kitsilano neighbourhood and created copper markers in the ground along the routes of these lost streams.
The drawings in this work are rubbings of the copper markers and the prints are photographs of the points along the sites of the lost streams.

Regarding the site specific installations:
covapp.vancouver.ca/PublicArtRegistry/ArtworkDetail.aspx?ArtworkId=359
plepuc.org/en/artwork/lost-streams-of-kitsilano
www.kitsilano.ca/2019/03/25/the-lost-streams-of-kitsilano/

History

Collection: –
Credit Line: Gift of the artist
Related Exhibitions: –

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