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Cynthia Imogen Hammond

Cynthia Imogen Hammond is a writer and visual artist based in Montréal/Tiohtià:ke, unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory in Québec, Canada. She has been writing and making art about women, landscapes, cities, animals, and dreams for over 30 years.

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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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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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The Suffragettes’ Orchard (2009-2012)

Between the spring of 1910 and the spring of 1912, sixty-eight women planted sixty-eight young evergreen trees and holly bushes in a two-acre field on the outskirts of the heritage […]

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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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