I was commissioned to make two new works for the St Michael's Hospital permanent collection, for a permanent exhibition at the Barlo Centre for MS in Toronto. See the two images below. Contact the artist for further details, editions, or new commissions from the series.
Vanitas 1 (Stone and bone), 2021
Print size 26" x 32.7"
Vanitas 2 (Flower crown), 2021
Print size 28.5" x 36"
Vanitas 1 (Stone and bone), 2021
Print size 26" x 32.7"
Vanitas 2 (Flower crown), 2021
Print size 28.5" x 36"
Diane Borsato
Edition of 3, +AP.
Diane Borsato is a multi-disciplinary artist who often collaborates with other artists, scientists and naturalists in works that explore the culture of nature and our relationships with it, and experiential ways of knowing. In these new works made especially for the Barlo MS Centre the artist drew from the historical still-life form known as Vanitas - where images including skulls, flowers, and other objects point to the ephemerality of life. Using the artist's partner and young son as models, the figures in the photographs are posed in relation to objects from nature - exploring the body's shared materiality and relative expression of passing time - with stones and wildflowers.