Marian Penner Bancroft

Marian Penner Bancroft
Born 1947 (age 6869)
Nationality Canadian
Known for artist, educator
Website http://www.republicgallery.com/artists/bancroft.html#

Marian Penner Bancroft (born 1947) is a Canadian artist and photographer based in Vancouver. She is an Associate Professor at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design, where she has been teaching since 1981. She has previously also taught at Simon Fraser University and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.[1] She is a member of the board of Artspeak Gallery and is represented in Vancouver by the Republic Gallery.

Her current interests are the intersections of the photographic image with history, music and mapping strategies in relation to representations of landscape.

In addition to photography, her work has included text, sound, drawing, sculpture and more recently, video.

Life and work

Marian Penner Bancroft was born in Chilliwack, British Columbia, and currently lives and works in Vancouver.[2] She studied at the University of British Columbia, the Vancouver School of Art (now Emily Carr University of Art and Design) and Ryerson Polytechnical Institute (Now Ryerson University) in Toronto.

National and international exhibitions include those at the Vancouver Art Gallery and at the Centre Culturel Canadien in Paris. In addition to photography, her work has included text, sound, drawing, sculpture and more recently, video.

Publications

Two Places at Once: Transfigured Wood Part 4 (1986) Western Front Society publications, Vancouver BC

Selected Exhibitions

Spiritlands: t/here: Marian Penner Bancroft, Selected Photo Works 1975-2000 Vancouver Art Gallery (2012)

By Land and Sea (Prospect and Refuge)[3] Presentation House Gallery (1999)

Public Art

Boulevard at Yaletown-Roundhouse (2014) Canada Line Subway Station, Vancouver[4]

Root System, Pipeline Road, Stanley Park (2007-2008, 6 month installation), Davie and Pacific Boulevard, commissioned by TransitBC and the Canada Line

Lost Streams, Kitsilano (1995–96), City of Vancouver Park Board, permanent site-specific installation

Selected Collections

Selected Awards

Selected bibliography

References

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