Agricultura - Guelph, Ontario, Canada - Abstract Public Sculptures on Waymarking.com

This sculpture was purchased through the Florence G. Partridge Fund in consultation with the Ontario Veterinary College and with financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts Acquisition Assistance Program in 1997.

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Jane Buyers

Jane Buyers was born in Toronto in 1948. She has an honours B.A. in Visual Art from York University (1973) and a Master of Education in History and Philosophy from the University of Toronto (1990). She has had steady employment as an educator since 1976, variously as a lecturer in graphic design at George Brown College in Toronto, as a Fine Art instructor at Fanshawe College, the Toronto School of Art, and Guelph University, to her current position as an Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo.

Jane Buyers has had solo exhibitions at the Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, N.B. (1975); the Art Gallery of Hamilton (1984); the Thunder Bay National Exhibition Centre (1986), St. Lawrence College Art Gallery, Kingston (1986); the University of Waterloo Fine Arts Gallery (1988); the Tom Thomson Memorial Gallery, Owen Sound (1991); the Canadian Cultural Centre, Rome (1992); and the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery (1996), amongst others. Group shows include Monumenta at YYZ, Toronto (1982); O KromaZone at Das Institut Unzeit, Berlin (1982); ChromaLiving, with the ChromaZone Collective in Toronto (1983); Graphic Feminism at A Space, Toronto (1986); Living Impressions, Art Gallery of Hamilton (1989); and Second Skin: Looking at the Garden Again, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph (1996).

"For the past decade I have been working on two related series of works which juxtapose cultural artifacts with references to nature. One series uses the image of an open book, the other references instruments derived from domestic implements and artisans' tools. In the book works specific text-based information has been replaced by the general meaning of the book itself and the suggestion of transformation or regeneration created by the reference to a natural form - leaf, tree, bud - growing out of decomposing pages. The image of nature in my work comes from other images - 'pictures' that represent an idea rather than 'reality', images with a complex history such as botanical engravings; illustrations from out-of-date science books, dictionaries and encyclopedias; designs on textiles, wallpapers and household objects. My interest is not in nature as 'natural' but in nature as the site of complex, contradictory processes of manipulation and idealization expressive of a desire to be connected, to find a pattern, to make order. My work encodes these hopeful desires but also the melancholy, anxious distance that separates us from their fulfillment."

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Title: Agricultura Artist: Jane Buyers Media (materials) used: Bronze Location (specific park, transit center, library, etc.): Donald Forster Sculpture Park Date of creation or placement: 1997

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