INSTALLATIONS

THE CARPET

"The Carpet" takes inspiration from the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch", a mass of plastic and floating trash originating from the "Pacific Rim" that spans over 15 million square kilometers and poses a major threat to marine wild life, incorporating her a collection of entangled plastic water bottles, the Langwieser has created an ethereal biomorphic form.

Thanks to the support of the Estevan Art Gallery, City of Estevan

WINTER SCREEN

The wooden structure of the gazebo gives support to the metal screens that are interlaced with fragments of plastic water bottles. The installation interacts with the internal and external light sources, and the winter weather conditions.

Thank you to our funders SaskArts, City of Estevan, SaskCulture and SaskLotteries

LUCY'S WINTER COAT, A COMMUNITY PROJECT

Partnering with the Estevan Public Library and Estevan Diversified Services, Ruth and her project participants cut out icicle shaped forms from recycles plastics and altered them with a heat gun. As the project developed and the plastics were strung together, the artist felt they resembled a feather boa. She begun to consider textiles and their significance in protecting our bodies from winter weather. She also considered this gazebo as a location one might duck into during inclement weather.  Feather boas led to thoughts of fur trimmed jackets. The lights used in the installation are meant to mimic the constant changing colours of a Saskatchewan sky line. They are also a nod to the Saskatchewan license plate phrase "land of living skies", complete with an occasional snow storm. 

Lucy is an english and french feminine name derived from the latin masculine "Lucius". It means "as of light", or "born at dawn of daylight". 

Thanks to all the participants, and to those who donated materials!

SPECIAL THANKS TO: 

ESTEVAN ART GALLERY & MUSEUM, ESTEVAN PUBLIC LIBRARY, ESTEVAN DIVERSIFIED SERVICES, CITY OF ESTEVAN, WOODLAWN REGIONAL PARK, SASK LOTTERIES, SASK ARTS.

MANIA PLASTICA

Mania Plastica consists of a series of 20 "mutated creatures" of different size, colour and shape. Plastic elements from recyclad water bottles, sectioned and reshaped, merge though the alveoles of the bases mad of translucent porcelain clay. Mania Plastica shows a possible imagined scenario as a result of the interaction of plastic waste which we daily expose to flora and fauna in a steadily growing quantity, left to mingle with natural organisms.

With the support of ESTEVAN ART GALLERY & MUSEUM, CITY OF ESTEVAN, SASK LOTTERIES, SASK ARTS.

INSIDE/OUT  "CAN YOU HEAR THE WATER"

Water, particularly the sea, is a major theme in my artistic practice, and the idea of showing these particular works outdoors has been an exciting premise to me. It wasn't until my mother's passing that I discovered the full extent of her collection of seashells that she had brought home from all the beaches that she had travelled. I am happy to have shared that passion with her. Shells were a shared fascination between us, but they speak to a huge population of people who collect them, decorate with them, hold them up to their ears, or cup them into their hands. 

Water is the birth place of all living things, including human beings. We also come from our mothers who gave birth to each of us. With this mind, I dedicated my first works to my mother when I studied Ceramics in Geneva, and the French title was a play of words:

'La mer de ma mère" (the sea of my mother).

The artworks in "Inside/Out" are an ode to passionate collectors, admirers of nature, and of course, my mother and the sea.

with the kind support of the Estevan Art Gallery and Museum, saskArts,  sask lotteries, Woodlawn Regional Park and Boundry Dam Estevan,