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Cynthia Hammond

The Gardens of Marie Clews, 2023

In 2023 I spent a joyful April as artist-in-residence at La Napoule Art Foundation in Mandelieu-La Napoule, in the south of France. Funded by the David Graham Foundation, my residency […]

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Wintersweet, 2021-22

In Winter 2021-2022 I began a series of small paintings on cardboard called “Wintersweet”. I had been thinking about the way that winter, despite being a time of dormancy, or […]

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The Lipstick Caryatids, April 2019

At the centre of Shaughnessy Village in Montreal, Canada, is a mansion, from which the district gets its name. Once home to some of Canada’s most powerful and wealthy families, […]

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Promenade parlante: episodes in a changing neighbourhood, 2018-19

Promenade parlante: Episodes in a Changing Neighbourhood was an intergenerational, […]

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Illuminated from Within: The Notman Garden series, 2019

In 2019 I was artist in residence at the Association […]

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Abundant with Bloom – L’univers floral des femmes de la famille Colby, 2018

Abundant with Bloom – L’univers floral des femmes de la […]

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The edge of her garden, 2017

In April 2017 I was artist in residence at the Caetani Cultural Centre in Vernon, British Columbia. The Centre is named after Sveva Caetani (1917-1994), who was born in Italy […]

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Safety Strategies: Gender, Space, and the City

(Le français suit) Safety Strategies is a collaborative drawing project […]

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Giardino dell’Eden, 2016-

In 2016-17 I am working on a series of acrylic paintings on unprimed, unstretched canvas. My inspiration is the Giardino dell’Eden – quite literally a walled, locked garden named Eden, […]

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Un Paradis sans pommiers: Le jardin des Soeurs Grises

On June 3rd, 2016, we welcomed visitors to an ‘evening […]

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Friday, February 13th, 5:30pm. Downtown is mildly frantic with preparations for valentine’s day. Stores and restaurants have trotted out multitudes of pink and red velvet, tulle, sparkles, bows, special deals. […]

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The Possible, 2014

Above: Le Champs des Possibles, a post-industrial landscape in the Mile End neighbourhood of Montreal. Photo by Cynthia Hammond, 2011. The Possible was a creative collaboration with a protected, post-industrial landscape in […]

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Points de vue

[The following collectively-written text also appears on the website of the gallery Darling Foundry, Montreal] In November 2013 the City of Montreal announced a call for proposals to repurpose the […]

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parallax: landscape in translation, 2014

Cynthia Hammond, Kelly Thompson, and Kathleen Vaughan present parallax: landscape in translation at the fofa gallery, Concordia University, Montreal. The exhibition includes paintings of acrylic on canvas (Hammond), hand-woven digital jacquard […]

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all between, 2014

The Pool – Transnational Creatives is a group of creatives, writers, artists, musicians, and cultural agents from around the world. We met in Djurönäset, Sweden in August 2014 to begin […]

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Imago, 2014

In summer 2014 I was invited to participate in, and help organize, a fundraiser for Imago Théâtre. Imago was looking for support for Artista, a mentorship program in which theatre […]

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Illuminations, 2014

In May 2014, pouf! art + architecture (Cynthia Hammond and Tee Strickland) and Urban Occupations Urbaines (Shauna Janssen) collaborated with artist and art historian Adeline Paradis-Hautcoeur, choreographer Leslie Baker, and […]

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The Gardens of Partis College, 2014-

In 1824, a wealthy Englishwoman named Ann Partis bought land outside the Somerset city of Bath to create a utopian housing project for elder gentlewomen who had fallen on hard […]

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Olveston Blooms, 2013

Dorothy Michaelis Theomin (1888-1966) was a mountaineer, a photographer of mountains, an avid traveler, and a philanthropist who lived most of her life in Dunedin, New Zealand. Her family were powerful […]

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36 Views of Aoteatroa, 2013-

This series of landscape paintings refer to the renowned book of woodblock prints by Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (c 1760-1849), 36 Views of Mount Fuji, which I saw in person for […]

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Drawings for a Thicker Skin, 2012

For over twenty years I made drawings of clothes I planned to wear. This drawing practice was a way to imagine myself in future situations, in an idealized state, and served as […]

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dog parc gallery 2010-13

[The following text is adapted from Cynthia Hammond and Thomas D. Strickland, “Biting Back: Art and Activism at the Dog Park,” originally published in On/Site Review 30, Ethics and Publics […]

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After Audubon, 2009

After Audubon was a small series of small collages I made in 2009. Always delighted by the naturalist books I was given as a child, I decided on a whim […]

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Home, 2004

Home was a solo exhibition at the Latcham Gallery, Stouffville, ON (Maura Broadhurst, curator) in 2004. The two series exhibited were Home and Emotional Floorplans. In both cases, the personal or […]

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pro fanus, 2000

In summer 2000 I returned to Bath to undertake a series of projects in sites of importance to women’s history in this World Heritage city. pro fanus [in front of the temple] took […]

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breathe / animer, 1999

In the late 1990s and early 2000s I began to work more seriously with performance as a mode of engaging with publics, and spaces. Through my studies with feminist professors […]

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Flower for Flyers, 1999

(1 March 1999, Playa del Carmen, Mexico) “Should write about last night before it’s gone. Made about 30-40 little watercolours of flowers, some fish, a few butterflies. What I ended […]

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Winged for a Day, 1998

As part of my ongoing research about the winged human figure, and specifically winged female figures, I created Winged for a Day in Halifax, Nova Scotia in the summer of […]

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Odysseus Come Home, 1998

While living in Halifax and teaching my first course at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design I was captured by the harbour and shipping history so important to […]

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Anonymous Fairy Acts, 1998

During a trip to England in spring 1998 I visited Exeter, staying on the campus of Exeter University in a rather cheerless dormitory. There was a storm in the night […]

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Do Not Be Afraid, 1998

Do Not Be Afraid was both a series of works I undertook in 1997-98, and the title of an exhibition I had at the Bowmanville Art Gallery/Visual Arts Centre of […]

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Take Back the Night – Montreal, 1998

In August 1998 I was invited to contribute as an artist to the annual Take Back the Night march in Montreal. Much of my research in the studio and elsewhere […]

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Winged for a Day, 1998

As part of my ongoing research about the winged human figure, I undertook a number of projects in which I made small wings and offered them to others to wear. […]

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The Gathering of Earth – 101 Mountains, 1998

In 1998 I co-organized a group exhibition of student work […]

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Floralscapes, 1993-94

In my last year of living in Hamilton, Ontario, I had an exhibition at a new restaurant on King Street West (near downtown’s Hess Village), which showed local artists’ work. […]

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Bountiful Woman, 1992 & 1994

In 1992 and again in 1994, a group of feminists and feminist artists in Hamilton came together to organize two, non-juried exhibitions celebrating women’s creativity. The core members were Renée […]

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Compound, 1992-93

I graduated from McMaster University in 1993, but the previous year participated in the graduating exhibition of 1992, as by then I had finished all my studio arts courses. That […]

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One in the Flock, 1992

In the summer of 1992 I had my first solo exhibition at the Broadway Cinema, which had exhibition space within a lovely, large marquee theatre on King William Street in […]

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Early landscapes (1991-94)

During my last year of study, and following my graduation from McMaster University’s BFA in 1992, I worked in a downtown Hamilton art store, Rath Art Supplies, owned by the […]

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Locke Street Studio Show – 1991

The Locke Street Studio was briefly located on Locke Street South in Hamilton, a great neighbourhood tucked in between downtown to the east, the 403 expressway to the west, and […]