Our Next Speaker
548th Meeting
9 March 2021
Leslie Reid
ARCTIC EXPERIENCE OF A SOUTHERN ARTIST
Leslie Reid has been travelling in the Arctic
since 2013, when she was artist-in- residence with
the Canadian Forces Artists Program. Her interest
in the North grew from her RCAF father’s early
mapping flights there. Her observations and
experiences of military sovereignty activities,
resource developments and burgeoning tourism have
grown increasingly complex through meetings with
the Indigenous peoples, especially during her
voyage through the Northwest Passage on the Canada
150 C3 expedition. Issues of displacement,
fragility, survival and resilience have become
central to Leslie’s responses to the North and its
histories. Sailing in Svalbard with an
international artists and writers residency in
2018 provided a contrast with her Canadian Arctic
involvement. The talk will focus on the
experiences, images and works leading to an
exhibition, Dark Ice, at the Ottawa Art Gallery in
2022.
Born in Ottawa, Leslie Reid studied at Queen’s
University and continued her studies at art
college in England. On her return to Canada, she
taught Visual Arts at the University of Ottawa,
where she is now Professor Emerita. Early
exhibitions include the ground-breaking Some
Canadian Women Artists, National Gallery of
Canada, and the Biennale de Paris. She has
had solo exhibitions in Canada, England, France
and the USA. A retrospective exhibition was
curated by Diana Nemiroff at the Carleton
University Art Gallery in 2011. She is the
recipient of numerous grants from the Canada
Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and
the City of Ottawa, as well as awards from the
Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. She received the
Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012. Her
work is in the collections of the National Gallery
of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario and in
public and private collections across Canada.
The meeting will be hosted by
Prof. Chris Burn (Carleton University) on Zoom,
beginning at 7:45 pm. It will be open to all
members who pre-register. Registration is free,
but an intention to attend must be indicated
before 5 pm on March 9 by sending an email
to: christopher.burn@carleton.ca.
Please provide your name in the text of the
email. You will receive, by email, login
instructions for Zoom, which will be an internet
address for you to paste in your browser. On the
night, you will be placed in a waiting room and
admitted if your details have been received. We
will not admit the general public in order to
minimize the chances of sabotage. It is important
that the managing host of the meeting should be
able to recognize your name when you log in.
Next meeting:
Apr 13
Kathleen Tipton on architecture indigenous to
northern latitudes
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Thomas Frisch
Secretary
613-725-2221; tfrisch@sympatico.ca
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SPEAKERS
PROGRAMME
2020-2021
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October 13 Wally
Clemens
“Life
on the DEW Line”
November 10 Christopher
Burn
Carleton
University
“The cost of maintaining highway
infrastructure in permafrost regions undergoing climate
change”
December 8 John
Gilbert
“The Journals
of the Eureka Weather Station, 1947-48”
January 12 AGM and
Student Presentation
Krista Ulujuk
Zawadski
Carleton
University
“Miqqutiit: Threading Inuit knowledge
with bird bone needles”
February
9
Iza Morawieka
“Deportation to
Siberia in World War II”
March 9 Leslie
Reid
“Arctic
experience of a southern artist"
April
13 Kathleen
Tipton
Canadian
Armed Forces
"Architecture indigenous to
northern latitudes"
April
29 Annual
Banquet with
guest-of-honour, Pat
Sutherland
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