Thorneycroft to discuss work at Clear Lake

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Want to learn about some of the Group of Seven’s “awkward moments” while you are enjoying the outdoor landscape?

Prominent Winnipeg artist Diana Thorneycroft will give a talk in Clear Lake Thursday about her acclaimed exhibition at the McMichael gallery in Ontario.

Thorneycroft’s presentation, at the Wasagaming Visitor Centre at 7:30 p.m., will include slides of the photographs in her Group of Seven Awkward Moments show, which opened in July and runs through November.

The McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, Ont., was established to showcase landcape paintings by the Group of Seven, considered Canada’s most significant art movement.

Thorneycroft’s work, which gently mocks Group of Seven iconography, includes such images as a G.I. Joe doll with a Tim Hortons cup and artist Tom Thomson urinating from a canoe.

In her presentation, admission to which is free, Thorneycroft will discuss such topics as violence as a form of entertainment and copyright law and appropriation, all of which her art work addresses.

Thorneycroft is one of several Manitoba artists who were awarded a Manitoba Arts Council grant to work at a council-supported cabin at Clear Lake this summer.

Thorneycroft attracted international headlines with her 1999 exhibition, Monstrance, in which she hung rabbit carcasses in an outdoor setting.

She has exhibited various bodies of work across Canada, the U.S. and Europe, as well as in Moscow, Tokyo and Sydney.

Canadian Art magazine named Group of Seven Awkward Moments as one of the top 10 exhibitions in 2008 after it opened at a commercial gallery in London, Ont.

Wasagaming (also known as Clear Lake) is the main townsite in Riding Mountain National Park. It is located at the south gate along Highway 10 between Brandon and Dauphin.