Michael Strangelove
The Geography of Empire

The Geography of Empire

Collage, hand-cut antique and vintage paper14 x 11 in

Combining fragments from an 1889 map of Canada (Peerless Atlas of the World) with a bust of Lamia by Sir George Frampton (Royal Academy Pictures, 1900), Franklin Carmichael's Autumn, a totem pole from Emily Carr's Corner of Kitwancool Village (1930), and from the February 2, 1889 edition of The Dominion Illustrated, a photograph of the Hellmuth Ladies' College, London, Ontario, and from the February 23, 1889 edition of The Dominion Illustrated, a photograph of Mustatum Moutiapec (Horse Roots) Cree Indian, Calgary.

Comes matted and framed.

Colour accuracy is difficult to ensure online. The artwork may vary slightly from the images shown here.

In the exhibition

Showing all November in Women in the Victorian Imagination at the Art House Cafe, 555 Somerset St W, Ottawa.

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