Thaddeus Holownia
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Thaddeus Holownia RCA ONB FRSC (born July 2, 1949)[1] is a British-born Canadian artist and professor. He taught photography at Mount Allison University and served as the head of the Fine Arts Department, retiring in 2018.[2]
Career
Born in England, the family of Thaddeus Holownia immigrated to Canada when he was five.[3] He attended the University of Windsor, studying printmaking and communications and graduated in 1972. Initially part of Toronto’s art scene, he worked as a film editor before working at the National Film Board of Canada, and later joining the faculty of the Mount Allison University Fine Arts Department in 1977.[2][4][5]
Art Work
In Holownia’s large-scale photographs, he uses the idea of heightened perception to explore the traces humankind leaves on the landscape.[6] He often photographs the same sites and subjects over time, recording long-term transformations in detail.[5] About his work, he echoes Thoreau’s observation, “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see”.[7] He favours a large-format banquet camera.[8] Holownia's pre-1989 work has been described as capturing the “slow violence” of environmental disaster.[5] An early series Holownia shot in Toronto features people posing with cars in urban areas that had been abandoned in favour of car-friendly suburbs.[5]
His photographs have been the subject of numerous exhibitions, including a forty-year
Holownia`s photographs are in public collections such as the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa[1] and many eastern Canadian galleries, such as the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax (27 works).[11]
Honours
In 2000, Holownia was elected to the
Thaddeus Holownia now lives in Jolicure, New Brunswick.[6]
References
- ^ a b "Thaddeus Holownia". National Gallery of Canada. Retrieved 2021-02-14.
- ^ a b "Mt. Allison research professor Thaddeus Holownia inducted into the Royal Society of Canada, 2018". www.mta.ca. Mount Alison University. Retrieved 2021-02-14.
- ^ Fog Forest Gallery: biography
- ^ a b Website biography
- ^ ISBN 978-1-4871-0309-5.
- ^ a b c "Tangled up in Walden". Globe and Mail. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
- ^ "The Nature of Nature: The Photographs of Thadeus Holownia Exhibition". /www.artgalleryofnovascotia.ca. Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax. Retrieved 2021-02-14.
- ^ a b "Exhibitions". /beaverbrookartgallery.org. Beaverbrook Art Gallery. Retrieved 19 June 2023.
- ^ "Tree Studies for Henry David Thoreau, 2001-2003". www.beaverbrookartgallery.org. Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton. Retrieved 2021-02-14.
- OCLC 757584288. Retrieved 2021-02-14 – via www.worldcat.org.
- ^ "Collection: Thaddeus Holownia". collections.artgalleryofnovascotia.ca. Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax. Retrieved 2021-02-14.
- ^ "Members since 1880". Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Archived from the original on 26 May 2011. Retrieved 11 September 2013.
- ^ Order of New Brunswick
- ^ Royal Society of Canada
Bibliography
- Leroux, John; Holownia, Thaddeus (2016). A Vision of Wood and Stone – The Architecture of Mount Allison University. Sackville. Retrieved 2021-02-14.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Sanger, Peter (2018). Lightfield: The Photography of Thaddeus Holownia. Kentville, Nova Scotia: Gaspereau Press. Retrieved 2021-02-14.
- Thurston, Harry; Holownia, Thaddeus (2008). Silver Ghost Photographs. Jolicure, New Brunswick: The Anchorage Press. Retrieved 2021-02-14.
- Bassnett, Sarah; Parsons, Sarah (2023). Photography in Canada, 1839–1989: An Illustrated History. Toronto: Art Canada Institute. ISBN 978-1-4871-0309-5.