{"id":504,"date":"2017-08-14T19:32:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T19:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stmcollege.ca\/gallery\/?p=504"},"modified":"2017-08-14T19:32:19","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T19:32:19","slug":"bonnie-conly-walking-meditations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stmcollege.ca\/gallery\/bonnie-conly-walking-meditations\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonnie Conly: Walking Meditations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Grassland Mountain, 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

September 5 – October 27, 2017
\nOpening reception: Friday September 8, 7-9pm<\/h3>\n

We begin our fall season with ‘Walking Meditations’ by local artist Bonnie Conly. The exhibition features over thirty five postcard-sized ink and pastel sketches produced during her 2015 artist residency at Grasslands National Park, located in Southern Saskatchewan. Also included are Conly’s photographs documenting the installation of her small, metal sculptures entitled ‘Warriors’. These sculptures were made with metal collected from the Grasslands area in 2012 and installed by Conly in the park during her residency.\u00a0 A number of these sculptures will be on display during our evening reception on Friday September 8. We hope that you can join us.<\/p>\n

Utilizing a variety of approaches including sculpture, video, sound installation, drawing and photography, I contemplate the distinctiveness of my personal experience with the land as well as my own ancestry.\u00a0 My searching artworks seek to reclaim both land and memory \u2013 reflecting upon the unbreakable bonds between soul and space.
\n<\/em>My art translates my connections and observations as I move between rural and urban environments.\u00a0 Both natural and constructed elements that define those spaces influence my work.\u00a0 I find that places of solace, quiet and engagement are becoming increasingly rare.\u00a0 They have become increasingly sacred to me and have conceptually inspired a need to celebrate them in my art.\u00a0 I believe there is an affective bond between person and place that creates a history, a conscious and unconscious engagement where location prompts emotion, experience, and memories.\u00a0 I believe this tie to be so strong that history remains even when the place physically changes.\u00a0 It is this element of \u201ctrace\u201d that compels my work, merging realism with personal, symbolic, and metaphoric layers.<\/em><\/p>\n

Bonnie Conly<\/em>
\n Artist Statement, 2015<\/em><\/p>\n

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Eagle Butte Trail, 2015, Ink and Cont\u00e9 on watercolour paper, 4″ x 6″<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Belza Hayfield, 2015, Ink and Cont\u00e9 on watercolour paper, 4″ x 6″<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Nasty Bug Bite, 2015 Ink and watercolour on paper, 4″ x 6″<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Cooler, 2015, Ink and Cont\u00e9 on watercolour paper, 4″ x 6″<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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September 5 – October 27, 2017 Opening reception: Friday September 8, 7-9pm We begin our fall season with ‘Walking Meditations’ by local artist Bonnie Conly. The exhibition features over thirty five postcard-sized ink and pastel sketches produced during her 2015 artist residency at Grasslands National Park, located in Southern Saskatchewan. Also included are Conly’s photographs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmcollege.ca\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmcollege.ca\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmcollege.ca\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmcollege.ca\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmcollege.ca\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/stmcollege.ca\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531,"href":"https:\/\/stmcollege.ca\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmcollege.ca\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmcollege.ca\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmcollege.ca\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}