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Drum Voice, Quinn J. Smallboy Nov 2017

Drum Voice, Quinn J. Smallboy

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

My creative practice works to incorporate my own experiences and memories and connect these to issues confronting Indigenous communities. As I continue to develop this practice a key work has proven to show or highlight these issues. This work, reinterpreting the traditional drum form has offered immense possibilities. This document considers certain aspects of my culture and ask what Indigenous art means today.


Midheaven, Samantha R. Noseworthy Sep 2017

Midheaven, Samantha R. Noseworthy

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

This dossier and accompanying exhibition at McIntosh Gallery, both titled Midheaven, constitutes my Master of Fine Arts Degree at the University of Western Ontario. Within this dossier I reflect upon what guides my art practice. This includes various historical influences, such as artist and writer Carolee Schneemann, philosopher Manly Palmer Hall, and the astrologer Stephanie Clement. In addition to the inclusion of anecdotes from my own life, within my thesis I analyze various occult concepts and practices, particularly tarot and astrology. I consider these understandings to be a direct window into the thought processes that drive my art practice. …


The Tapestry Of Memory, Kathryn M. Lawson Aug 2017

The Tapestry Of Memory, Kathryn M. Lawson

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

Rationality points to the complete annihilation and end of a life when the body perishes, and yet when a loved one dies we continue to experience that person in a myriad of ways. The focus of this thesis will be a phenomenological exploration of the earthly afterlife of those we have loved and lost. By positing the subject as always intersubjective and as temporal in nature, this thesis will investigate how we continue to create and interact with the deceased upon the earth. In the introduction, this work will be placed in the context of the phenomenological tradition. The first …


The Art Of London: 1830-1980, Nancy Geddes Poole Jan 2017

The Art Of London: 1830-1980, Nancy Geddes Poole

McIntosh Gallery

No abstract provided.