Your Dearest Wish Will Come True
Your Dearest Wish Will Come True
Mary-Anne McTrowe and Joseph Anderson
Mary-Anne McTrowe’s creative activities have included such diverse areas as sculpture, photography, performance, mail art, video, and most recently, painting and drawing. Her practice is presently focused on the question of how things that are familiar to us can be made unfamiliar, and how a change in context can render something temporarily strange and perhaps even unrecognizable. One area of interest is in exploring similarities between the creatures accepted by historical science but long since discontinued (the vegetable lamb, the barnacle goose, the basilisk) and creatures being modified or created by contemporary science (hybrid plants and animals).
Joseph Anderson was born in Edmonton, and since resided in southern Alberta. He has exhibited his work in several group shows including the SAAG’s storefront window project Pause (2001). His solo shows Playthings (2001), and Reverence (2002) were both exhibited at Monkey Girl Ceramic Company, and last year a new installation titled Annunciation was featured in The New Gallery’s +15 window space in Calgary. His latest collection of paintings will be seen this year in June at the Round Street Gallery in Lethbridge. Anderson recently added installation elements to his watercolour paintings which include birthday cakes and chocolate. He focuses on themes of childhood memories, art history, and religion in his work.
-As published in Lethbridge Living magazine, Spring 2003 Issue