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A series of cast latex works started in 1999, after a visit to
The Primate Cathedral of Saint Mary of Toledo, Spain,
that started me on a quest: what do we see as tourists, and what do we want to see

Exhibitions:
2000   Vestments, Meli-Melo, Artist Alliance, Hong Kong.
2002   The Tree Museum Collective: An Alternate Site: Gallery at Harbourfront Centre,
York Quay, Toronto, Ontario
2004   surface/friction, RedHead Collective, Toronto 2006 Shape Shifters, RedHead Gallery Toronto
2007   Emerging Grounds, VAC of Clarington, Ont
2007   Convergence, Tom Thompson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario
2011   Materiality, Art Gallery, Bloomfield Centre, St Francis XavierUniversity, Antigonish, Nova Scotia

“Anne O’Callaghan brings the wisdom of a bare spirit and the
terror of the grand inquisitor into her finely honed installation.
One thinks of the poet Octavio Paz transforming the words of
Robert Motherwell,

“ The skin of the world, the sound of the world”
into: “ Lines,
vehemence and geometry, high-tension wires:
the scalpel line that divides the world like a loaf of bread”

As she lifts back cast skins of rock and invisible vestments
from a latex painted wall such gestures reveal a rift
or tragic liminal space.”

Excerpt.. Essay, emerging grounds, 2007
Maralynn Cherry, curator.writer

SurfaceFriction
emerging ground
Materiality

selected projects:

  • Utopia! Who’s Listening Now
  • here there no where
  • just never enough
  • walking the lakeshore
  • the secret life of objects
  • shape shifters
  • flight path
  • scenic view
  • time as place

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