Victoria Edgarr Visual Artist
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Skaters / Les Patineurs

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Skaters is a quartet of miniature double plate etchings printed on Arches rag paper: 8 1/2 x 6 1/2” in editions of 35



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"Skaters / Les Patineurs" Album 4 gravures miniatures 2013

About / Démarche         Skaters / les Patineurs

This quartet of miniature etchings speaks of my nostalgia for all the 40 winters I lived in Montreal.
In ‘Dragon Skaters’ I bring three elements of my personnel archaeology together around the Skaters; the architectural landmark of Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours, a finger puppet dragon, and one of my ceramic works.
I choose to work in miniature format etching plates, wishing to evoke the idea of ‘long ago and far away’.
The use of scale and the recognizable landscape join in the imagination. Despite their ‘real’ size large things seen from afar will look small; but small things seen from far away in time may loom large.

Démarche
Patineurs Dragon
Eau-forte 2’x 3’
Arches éditions 35

Ce quatuor d’eau-fortes en miniature parle de ma nostalgie pour tous mes hivers vécu a Montréal.
Dans ‘Patineurs Dragon’ j’ai réuni autour d’une image de patineurs trois artéfacts de mon archéologie personnelle; le monument architectural de Notre-Dame de Bonsecours, un jouet d’enfant en forme de dragon, et une de mes  oeuvres en céramique.
En choisissant d’utiliser un  si petit format gravé je veux renforcer l’idée du lointain. L’échelle des éléments et le lieu connu rejoignent l’imaginaire.  Malgré leurs propre format, ce qui est grand vu de loin dans l’espace semble petit  mais ce qui est petit vu de loin dans le temps semble grand.



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  • exhibitions
    • "O Tell Me"
    • "Re-Cycling Culture"
    • "House under Covid"
    • "Walking Together" El Camino
    • "Life Till Now"
    • "The Parcel"
    • "Concern for a Body of Work"...
    • "Here a Nerve of Memory Sounded "
    • "The Rules of the Game"
    • "Artist at work" Video Banff Centre
  • Gallery
    • Printmaking >
      • Printmaking catalogue
      • "Samples"
      • Etchings in Series, . . .
      • "Skaters" Album
      • "Adam & Eve" Album
      • "Five Castles" album
    • Artist's Books Boxes Bundles
    • Drawing >
      • Studio Portraits
      • Pencil, Pastel, Watercolour
  • Shop
  • Blog
  • Instructor