Description
This body of work, from the 2017 exhibition And perhaps in me someone very old still hears the living sound of wood, references the old pines of the Ottawa Valley that were extensively logged in the 19th century. In this series, photo-based artist Sarah Fuller addresses the effects of removing old trees and how the land is altered when ancient arboreal networks are disrupted by cutting a hole into the landscape. For her exhibition, the artist salvaged pinewood from the bottom of the Ottawa River that dates from the early 1900s, and asked local woodworker Oliver Drake to produce two pinhole cameras, which Fuller then used to document the landscape surrounding Ottawa and Temagami. Sarah Fuller uses photography, video, sound and installations to construct spaces that reflect on the changing landscape of trees and the fragments of those ancient ecosystems that remain.
Sarah Fuller holds an MFA from the University of Ottawa, a BFA from Emily Carr University (Vancouver), and is certified as an Assistant Hiking Guide through the Association of Canadian Mountain Guides. Her work can be found in several prominent art collections including the City of Ottawa Art Collection, Department of Foreign Affairs, Walter Phillips Gallery (Banff, Alberta), Alberta Foundation for the Arts and the Canada Council Art Bank.