Scott Conarroe is represented by The Stephen Bulger Gallery (Toronto ON)
Photographs
By Rail is a sprawling survey of landscape and culture and North America's rail infrastructure. It was made possible by the Canada Council for the Arts.
Beijing is charming and vile and magical and malodorous and exotic to the point of diarrhea and also rather ordinary. The generosity of Michiel Van Kuyen enabled me to go there.
At Leisure is an ongoing study of environments designed for recreational purposes with the logic and structural vocabularies of job sites.
Kitchener / Waterloo Art Gallery commissioned this photo as part of their Parochial Views program.
London ON is The Forest City. It is based loosely on the London in the UK. It contradicts and it reiterates,
Red Lake is a little town in northwestern Ontario. It is known for its gold mines and fishing safaris, and for being the Norseman Capitol Of The World.
Average Pictures were exposed for the duration of twilight. From sunset until the streetlamps lit, or from dawn until the lights went out.
Harbour looks at the proximity of disparate activities around Halifax Harbour, one of five harbours purported to be the second largest in the world.
Vancouver is a selection of photographs that I made in 200-03. It evolved from a study of an "empty" or seemingly vacant urban space into a simple and tender place portrait.
Bridgeworks depicts a range of architectural eras referenced in the concrete understructure of Vancouver's bridges.
Video Works
Flight, Etc.... illustrates the absurd beauty of traffic on Red Lake's Howey Bay. (video)
Plaza shows the fine burghers of Kitchener ON using public space. Many lovely little dramas play out on the steps of their city hall. (excerpted from 2-channel video)
Stereoscapes is a companion piece to Average Pictures. It illustrates some of the periods that the photos condensed into single instants. (video excerpt)
Harbour Doubts attempts to approximate a type of photographic looking in video. It is a companion to Harbour. (video)
Rock Balloon is the point where frontman banter meets an earthbound balloon. (video)
Dragon might better be described as The Unbearable Lightness of Being Godzilla. (video)
Sad Fox is one of those amazing things you can stumble across on the edge of town.
Some Reading
Catalog from Apertura - Kitchener / Waterloo Art Gallery (Kitchener ON), 2008; essay by Bob Bean
Catalog from Harbour - Mt St Vincent University Art Gallery (Halifax NS), 2005; interview with Ingrid Jenkner
Catalog from Event Cities - Gallery 44 (Toronto ON), 2006; essay by Katy McCormick\
Interview for Canadian Art Online with Justin Mah
Review from Now Magaziney Gary Michael Dault
Profile in The National Post by Leah Sandals
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