Christine Fitzgerald,Vanishing. Panel Discussion Poster. Courtesy of Beaty Biodiversity Museum.

Christine Fitzgerald,Vanishing. Panel Discussion Poster. Courtesy of Beaty Biodiversity Museum.

Panel Discussion

Panel Discussion | Vanishing

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This panel discussion will consider innovative approaches to creative collaboration across disciplines and how activating aesthetic reconsideration of scientific collections addresses our present moment of ecological precarity. The event is held in conjunction with the exhibition Vanishing which is on view at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum until April 24, 2024. Vanished presents new work by 2023 Karsh Award photo-based artist Christine Fitzgerald. Integrating historical and current photographic technologies, Fitzgerald examines specimens— long ago acquired for natural history collections and many now extinct— as signposts of the fragility of life in the hands of human action.

Christine Fitzgerald is a photo-based artist from Ottawa, Canada. In her practice she merges historical photographic methods with modern technology, experimenting with old printing techniques, substrates and the manual application of pigment. Her experiments with the imperfections and permutations achieved from mixing current and obsolete photographic techniques allow her to push the boundaries of her medium and create a unique aesthetic, engaging viewers in the historical foundations of photography. Fitzgerald is a graduate of the School of the Photographic Arts: Ottawa, and Acadia and Dalhousie Universities. In 2020, her artwork was at the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C. as part of the featured exhibition, New Light: Canadian Women Artists. In 2023, she won the prestigious City of Ottawa Karsh Award, for her “outstanding body of work and significant contribution to the artistic discipline in a photo/lens-based medium”.

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