Lorraine Gilbert
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Lorraine Gilbert (Photographer) | |
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| Born | 1955[1] France |
| Education | BSc in Biology from Mcgill University and a MFA from Concordia University[2] |
| Known for | Photography |
Lorraine Gilbert (born 1955, France) is a Canadian artist and photographer focusing on landscape as a genre, raising questions pertaining to the social and economic aspects of landscape as art, as nature, and as lived experience.[3] She lives in Ottawa and in Quebec.
She holds a BSc in biology from McGill University (1979) and a MFA in Photography from Concordia University (1987).[4] She also studied forestry at the University of British Columbia. In 1978, she went to study at the Banff Centre. She taught at Concordia University in Montreal and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax. Beside teaching, she also produced graphic design work for artists and musicians. She has been teaching art and photography for the past 25 years and has held the Director of the Visual Arts Department at the University of Ottawa.[5]
Artistic career
She has been a practicing artist since 1979, her work can be found in private, public national and international collections. Her work has been exhibited at the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, the National Gallery of Canada the Ottawa Art Gallery, the Dalhousie Art Gallery and more.
From 1994 to 2004, Gilbert was actively involved as a publisher, host and board member with an Artist-Run Centre: Boreal Art Nature, based out of her home in La Minerve, Québec. There, artists from North and Central America, and from countries overseas as far as Iceland and India came together in the Canadian Boreal forest for artistic production in thematic residencies.
