The first exhibition of work by Simon Read to be held in Canada. The show examined Read’s work over a six year period (1978-1974) and included drawings, photographic images and the cameras which the artist constructed to make the images. It also included an installation piece entitled Going About, executed by the artist at the first venue on the tour.

A catalogue, with an essay and notes on the works by Lewis Biggs, was published to accompany the show. ISBN 0 919863 09 4

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Glossary

  • Installation

    An artwork comprised of many and various elements of miscellaneous materials (see mixed media), light and sound, which is conceived for and occupies an entire space, gallery or site. The viewer can often enter or walk around the installation. Installations may only exist as long as they are installed, but can be re-created in different sites. Installation art emerged in the 1960s out of Environmental Art (works of art which are three-dimensional environments), but it was not until the 1970s that the term came into common use and not until the late 1980s that artists started to specialise in this kind of work, creating a genre of ‘Installation Art’. The term can also be applied to the arrangement of selected art works in an exhibition.