An accompanying anthology includes newly commissioned texts by alumni and is edited by WPG Curator, Peta Rake. The logic of the anthology takes up both the subjective and objective and towards multiple intersecting ‘horizons’, with each individual reconstituting, or dismantling typical renderings of this subject from their own worldview. Of the six invited contributors, three writers have framed their essays through pre-existing texts of other writers and artists. Richard William Hill, Katherine Ylitalo, and Lisa Myers all addressed works from the Walter Phillips Gallery’s Permanent Collection. Richard William Hill writes on Rebecca Belmore’s work, "Ayum ee aawach Oomama mowan: Speaking to Their Mother" (1991); Lisa Myers writes on her own series of works, entitled "Blueprints" (2015/16); and Katherine Ylitalo pens a letter to artist Mike MacDonald about his work, "Butterfly Garden" (1999). These intersecting texts all speak to the concept of horizon in divergent ways, positing these artworks as sites of inquiry, tension, reckoning and reciprocity.
No Visible Horizon, the exhibition and the publication, was supported by the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Outstanding Artist Program.
All images copyright Rita Taylor.
