Joyce Wieland
Artist On Fire: The Work of Joyce Wieland
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Original format 16mm
Year 1987
Language(s) English
Artist(s) Kay Armatage
Running time 54 min
Films
ARTIST ON FIRE: THE WORK OF JOYCE WIELAND (1987) 54'
Description
Joyce Wieland was, for more than thirty years, one of Canada's most exciting and innovative artists. She worked in virtually every artistic medium: fabric works, pastels, colored pencils, oils, bronze, watercolors, and films in all formats. A founding member of the so-called "structural" filmmakers' group in New York in the late 1960s, she was also one of the first artists of the century to invest traditional women's crafts as an art form, using both film and textiles as platforms for her primary political themes: ecology, Canadian nationalism, and feminism.