Lynda Gammon

Lynda Gammon is a contemporary artist whose work has dealt with ideas of space and time through the disciplines of photography, sculpture, performance and assemblage. A number of her projects explore artistic production in relation to feminist practices and present alternative strategies for the representation of inhabitation through ephemeral, temporal and contingent conceptions of the spatial.

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Passing Comments
ByLynda Gammon April 11, 2023
people don’t want to look at dark and depressing photographs, you need to make something more cheerful you should wear…
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Meditation on the Studio Wall
ByLynda Gammon April 10, 2023
During the 25 minutes that the camera exposed its film to a 16″ X 20″ section of the studio wall…
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Celestographs
ByLynda Gammon April 9, 2023
They haunted me for years before I could finally place them… small, darkly coloured, murky photographs of the night sky….
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The Absence of the Origin of its Likeness
ByLynda Gammon April 8, 2023
We face the imperative to understand anew today what it might mean for photography to “move beyond representation.” (Hito Steyerl…
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The Gap
ByLynda Gammon April 7, 2023
Despite our strategies to bridge the visual ‘gap’ between the photograph and the thing being photographed, that distance stubbornly remains….
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The Studio
ByLynda Gammon April 6, 2023
At present my studio is a building behind my house. I also share a studio with Trudi Lynn Smith at…
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Two Works That Caught my Attention This Week
ByLynda Gammon April 5, 2023
Over the past week I encountered two works that caught my attention. One was during a critique session at UVic…
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Laurie Anderson
ByLynda Gammon April 4, 2023
I came upon this in Laurie Anderson’s essay Time and Beauty. IS SOME ART MORE BUDDHIST THAN OTHER ART? A…
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Sculpting the Immaterial: The Fundamental Impermanence of All Things
ByLynda Gammon April 3, 2023
I consider Morandi in his bedroom, painting images of bottles in Bologna while fascists take hold of Italy and think…
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Rikka
ByLynda Gammon April 2, 2023
Scanning through the Ikebana section of the university library I came upon this book: Rikka: The Soul of Japanese Flower…
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Plants
ByLynda Gammon April 1, 2023
Curly willow or tortured willow, corkscrew willow, Salix matsudana ‘Tortusa’Dianthus caryophyllus, carnation Equisetum, (; horsetail, snake grass, puzzlegrass) Laurus nobilis…
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Sisal
ByLynda Gammon March 31, 2023
A curator working on research for a craft exhibition drew my attention to an image he had uncovered on the…
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Ho Tam Press Gallery
ByLynda Gammon March 30, 2023
Installation in progress. Source Contemporary artist
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February 02, 2023
ByLynda Gammon February 2, 2023
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April 30, 2022
ByLynda Gammon April 30, 2022
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October 14, 2021
ByLynda Gammon October 14, 2021
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June 06, 2021
ByLynda Gammon June 6, 2021
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February 06, 2021
ByLynda Gammon February 6, 2021
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August 13, 2020
ByLynda Gammon August 13, 2020
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August 12, 2020
ByLynda Gammon August 12, 2020
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March 02, 2020
ByLynda Gammon March 2, 2020
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March 01, 2020
ByLynda Gammon March 1, 2020
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February 15, 2020
ByLynda Gammon February 15, 2020
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January 01, 2020
ByLynda Gammon January 1, 2020
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