27 May – 26 August 2025
Studio 531 Architect Window Gallery
546 Herald Street, Victoria
24/7 viewing from street
About the Artist:
Jeanne Cannizzo is an anthropologist, artist and sometimes a poet. In 2021 Bog Treasure with Irish poet Eileen Casey was published by Arlen House, Dublin. Her sculpture was shown in Neoneanderthals, for which she also wrote the catalogue and wall text, at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh, 2019. She lived in that city for several years while teaching at the University of Edinburgh and acting as an occasional guest curator for the National Portrait Gallery of Scotland. Since her return to Canada, she has also curated a show for the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. This year, as curator and contributing artist, she took part in an exhibition at the Rockslide Gallery celebrating the 100th anniversary of the first Surrealist art exhibition.
About the Work:
For this project on extinction and ‘de-extinction’ or what might be called ‘re-animation’, I have used photographs of taxidermied animals all taken in the 1990s at London’s Natural History Museum. The colours are strange in the photos and even stranger in the enlarged prints. The faces are left pretty much as they were, as I find them wonderful and out of respect for the taxidermist and the animal itself. But I have added objects to suggest habitat, food, fur and feathers, skeletons, poems and things which hint at the reasons these animals may be extinct in the future. Extinction is a natural process to which we as humans are not immune.
