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RoseMarie Condon
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Landscape, Flora, Fauna in Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor |
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The Willisville Mountain Project is a Northern Ontario multi-disciplinary project bringing together 45 artists in the creation and exhibit of new works of art related to and influenced by a particular site: Willisville Mountain.
The artists involved in the project range from emerging to senior artists from Ontario, Quebec and the United States - all with connections to La Cloche; are painters, writers, photographers, performance artists, eco-sculptural artists, installation artists, musicians, writers and mixed media artists
PUBLIC EXHIBIT: The new works created will be exhibited from July 25 to August 9, 2009 at the Whitefish Falls Community Centre & Whitefish Falls Community Park, located in the valley southwest of Willisville Mountain and linked through the Whitefish River.
This exhibition includes 2 works by RoseMarie Condon and will travel throughout 2009/2010 raising the awarenes of the granduer of the La Cloche Mountains made famous by Canada's Group of Seven painters and their contemporaries.
Willisville Mountain is located in the heart of the La Cloche Mountain range of Northern Ontario, one of the oldest mountain ranges in the world. It is a landscape celebrated by Canadian artists, made famous by the paintings and photographs of artists including Franklin Carmichael, A.Y. Jackson, A.J. Casson, Joachim Gauthier, Frederick Banting, York Wilson, Bruno Cavallo and Ivan Wheale to name just a few.
It is estimated that hundreds of artistic images by dozens of artists have been created that portray, render and celebrate this particular site (this is of significant import: one site has had a long and resonant aesthetic history, comparable to perhaps the renderings of important urban sites like Yonge Street).
Located on the north shore of Lake Huron and Georgian Bay, created just less than two billion years ago, prior to the development of human life, even to simple life forms, the mountains at that time, higher than the Rocky Mountains, were formed into their current topography by glacial erosion. It is the quartzite and granite characteristically exposed and rounded that are symbolically and iconographically important.
"the land is regarded and respected in the way one respects an elder—the extreme age of the Shield (some of the oldest rock on the planet) an indication of its wisdom. For in fact the land in its extreme age has witnessed the evolution of plant and animal life, the rise and passing of the mountains, the rise and melting of the glaciers, human passage and the passage of time." (From La Cloche: Passage and Place, by Sophie Anne Edwards.)
The territory is recognized as being within the traditional territory of the Anishnaabeg Peoples (Ojibway/Odawa/Potowatami). Many First Nations communities are within the region. Whitefish River First Nation (Wiigwaaskinagaa/Birch Island) is the nearest in proximity to the mountain and their Reserve Land also includes areas of land near the base of the mountain interspersed with lakes.
Today the Willisville Mountain is a beacon to travelers, the destination for thousands of families that climb to the summit to enjoy the fabulous view. It is the highest peak in the region and it is possible to view a full 360 degrees around for hundreds of miles in any direction from the top (forthis reason it was the site of a Fire Tower for many years).
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Direct Correspondence to:
RoseMarie Condon
c/o RoseMarie Condon Fine Art
Box 627
Fenelon Falls, Ontario
Canada K0M 1N0
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Email: rmcondon2@gmail.com
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