T. S. Anand

Born in Toronto, T. S. Anand immigrated to California where she received her BA in Sculpture from the University of California in Santa Cruz and her MFA in Spatial Art from San Jose State University. T. S. Anand is a process-oriented, multidimensional, artist and teacher currently facilitating an Art & Technology seminar at the University of California at Santa Cruz and directing Empty Pedestal Productions. With a background in dance, theatre, graphics, multimedia and sculpture. Anand is interested in cross media constructions with video projection, often in conjunction with durational performative actions.

Anne-Marie Beneteau

For over twenty years, Anne-Marie has been producing work about the impact of humans on nature, and vice-versa. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions nationally. In Toronto she has shown at DeLeon White Gallery, the Red Head , Women;s Art Resource Centre, A Space, Workscene and others. Originally from Windsor Ontario, one of the most industry-affected areas of the country her work has explored issues around the representation of nature, species diversity and environmental devastation. Her up coming solo exhibition at the MacLaren Art Centre in Barrie involves the creation of over a thousand sewed bird feathers onto TYVEX made pillow-like objects.

Marguerite Larmand

Considering the notion that shelter and environment are synonymous, I have transformed the site into an ad hoc stage where five figures enter for the first time from an atypical entry point. In an edgy, quickly-paced act, these acrobats will seemingly adapt - or fail to adapt - to the environmental conditions which they newly confront. Mounted in a contemplative part of the landscape and sheltered by the existing forest canopy, as time passes, this work will form a narrative that suggests that adaptation is continuous, variably paced and at times sudden enough to be shocking. Shelter, in my work is the archetypal co-creator and mentor assisting and guiding us in our ways of relating and adapting to nature/ culture as one inseparable entity.

Christy Thompson

Drawing from aspects of surrealism and conceptual art, my artistic practice has been based on the production and installation of sculptural objects. Specifically, I have been interested in constructing sculptures, using synthetic or pre-fabricated materials, that give reference to everyday objects. The sculptures draw from the banal and mundane -- the things which constantly surround us yet often go unnoticed. Through their re-configurations, the sculptural objects illicit an unfamiliarity. I see these sculptures as hybrids in their composition of diverse materials and elements.

Francesca Vivenza

Francesca Vivenza emigrated to Canada in 1970 from Milan, Italy. Since then Vivenza's work's have been exhibited in Canada and Europe. Selected group exhibitions including, Word Perfect (1990/91), Prosperity Returns (1994/95) curated by I. Holubizky, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario; Robert Birch Gallery, Toronto, Ont (1993); Hyponoia (1996), curated by Tila Kellman, Cold City, Toronto; Progetto Maionese (1999), En Plein Air Arte Contemporanea, Pinerolo, Italy; Esercizi De Stile (2001-currently touring), curated by M Ratti and M. Borzone, Palazzina delle Arti, Italy; Her solo exhibitions include, amongst others, Olga Korper Gallery (1982 & 1984) Toronto; Artspace (1987), Peterborough Ont; Dive (1995), curated by Carolyn Bell Farrell, Koffler Gallery; Gallery Astrolabio (1995), Messina, Italy; Out of Site (2001), curated by Tila Kellman, Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto. Vivenza has organized international projects in Canada and Italy (1993-1998), and from 1992 to 1998 was the Canadian editor and writer for NEXT, arte e cultura, an international art periodical based in Rome, Italy. Francesca Vivenza is represented by the Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.