artist lecture: susan detwiler

Art and Art History Presents

Susan Detwiler

Thursday 12 November 2009
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Sheridan B124

I live in a rural area of southwestern Ontario. Over the past six years I have developed and maintained a series of walks, which trespass private farmland, abandoned quarries, swampland and woodlots. Within this activity I try to cultivate sensitivity to body awareness as opposed to mind-based projection and perception. Much of my work deals with issues of body and landscape. It often raises questions about our relationship to the environment and increasing disconnection with the natural world.

Biography

Susan Detwiler is a contemporary visual artist, educator and writer. Her work includes sculpture, installation, performance, drawing and video. Detwiler studied at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and later received an MFA from the University of Guelph. She teaches part time at the University of Guelph and the Dundas Valley School of Art.




Image: Green Cleaning House (2008), 8 x 6 x 5 feet, float, live plants, mops, brooms, buckets, Jay Cloths