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Barbara Cole| Falling Through TimeJune 2016

Falling Through Time—the latest series by acclaimed photographer Barbara Cole—is a complex arrangement of past and present, one that draws on personal and collective history, myth, and the porous nature of time in the distinct, contemporary style for which the artist has become known.

Cole’s project began 20 years ago, when, while traveling, the artist became enamoured with the incomparable gardens of England. She was inspired by their romantic ambience: whimsical lattices, wiry brambles, and lush roses, all overseen by classically inspired statues, impossibly weightless despite their stone medium. Capturing these whimsical spaces with her Polaroid SX-70 film, and later manipulating the malleable photographic surface to painterly effect, Cole’s documentation resulted in a series truly romantic in both history and conception. Still, Cole felt that the project was somehow incomplete; her English garden series was stored away, and soon forgotten.

Falling Through Time is a resurfacing—of not just time and place, but Cole too, who collabo-rates with a past self. An incomplete project comes full circle as the English garden series be-comes background to the artist’s captivating underwater portraits. The result is a visual study of time in which personal and mythical histories—refracted through the water surface—layer to create dynamic, ethereal scenes with an editorial edge. “These women do not exist in a mo-ment in time,” says Cole, but rather alongside it, as extra-temporal travelers who float between history’s layers with confidence and mystery.

Kew at Night, 2016, chromogenic print face-mounted to plexi, available in editions of 10 at 48”x48” and 60”x60”

Rock Garden, 2016, chromogenic print face-mounted to plexi, available in editions of 10 at 48”x48” and 60”x60”

Inverforth Close, 2016, chromogenic print face-mounted to plexi, available in editions of 10 at 48”x48” and 60”x60”

Lost in Time, 2016, chromogenic print face-mounted to plexi, available in editions of 10 at 48”x48” and 60”x60”

Yew Trees at Hampton Court, 2016, chromogenic print face-mounted to plexi, available in editions of 10 at 48”x48” and 60”x60”

Chiswick House Forest, 2016, chromogenic print face-mounted to plexi, available in editions of 10 at 48”x48” and 60”x60”

Palace Gardens, 2016, chromogenic print face-mounted to plexi, available in editions of 10 at 48”x48” and 60”x60”

Battersea Garden Diptych, 2016, chromogenic print face-mounted to plexi, available in an edition of 20 at 40”x80”

Chiswick House Bridge, 2016, chromogenic print face-mounted to plexi, available in editions of 10 at 48”x48” and 60”x60”

Falling Through Time, 2016, chromogenic print face-mounted to plexi, available in editions of 10 at 48”x48” and 60”x60”

Highgate, Victorian Tombs, 2016, chromogenic print face-mounted to plexi, available in editions of 10 at 48”x48” and 60”x60”

The Heath, 2016, chromogenic print face-mounted to plexi, available in editions of 10 at 48”x48” and 60”x60”

The Hill, 2016, chromogenic print face-mounted to plexi, available in editions of 10 at 48”x48” and 60”x60”

Hampton Court Pergola, 2016, chromogenic print face-mounted to plexi, available in editions of 10 at 48”x48” and 60”x60”

Egyptian Avenue, 2016, chromogenic print face-mounted to plexi, available in editions of 10 at 48”x48” and 60”x60”

Forget-Me-Not Lenticular, 2016, chromogenic print face-mounted to plexi, available in editions of 10 at 48”x48” and 30”x30”

Lenticular Image

Lenticular images are made by interlacing a sequence of photographs to match optical lenses, creating a kinetic image that appears to transform based on the position of the viewer. Forget-Me-Not is comprised of 4 still images.

BARBARA COLE

Barbara Cole is a self-taught photographic artist who has built an extraordinary career in image making since beginning her practice in the 1980s. Cole’s work has been exhibited worldwide and is extensively collected by both public and private institutions. Throughout her career Cole has worked internationally on commercial projects and has created several large-scale commissions, including installations for the atrium at the M. Lau Breast Cancer Centre in Toronto’s Princess Margaret Hospital and for Trump Hollywood in Hollywood Beach, Florida. Her series Underworld was exhibited at the Canadian Embassies in Tokyo and Washington, D.C.. Cole has won prestigious awards such the Grand Prize at the Festival International de la Photographie de Mode in Cannes, and third prize at the International Photography Awards in New York. In 2012, the acclaimed documentary series Snapshot: The Art of Photography II featured an episode devoted exclusively to Cole’s photographic practice. Barbara Cole lives and works in Toronto, Canada.

Recent Accomplishments

2015 Commission, National Ballet of Canada for the world premiere of Le Petit Prince, Toronto: project involved photographing the cast underwater2014 Duplicity series wins 3rd prize in the PRIX DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE PARIS (PX3 Awards) 2013 London International Creative Competition, Short List, Duplicity2012 International Photography Awards, Barbara Cole Monograph, Honorable Mention, New York Barbara Cole Monograph: hardcover book with forewards by Sarah Angel and Jeanne Beker2011 Photography Masters Cup, International Color Awards Honorable Mention, Abstract Art: Chromatics, Three by Four Nominee, Abstract Art: Chromatics, Red Stain2010 Ontario Arts Council Mid-Career Visual Arts Grant2009 Third Prize, International Photography Awards, New York2008 Grand Prize, the 6ème Festival International de la Photographie de Mode, Cannes, France Large-scale artwork installation: Drifter Triptych, at Trump Hollywood, Florida, USA 2007 Commission, M. Lau Breast Cancer Centre, Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Canada2006 Large-scale artwork installation and book created, Miami ONE, Florida, USA 1997 Toronto Collection, Manulife Building, Toronto, Canada

Documentary About the Artist

“Barbara Cole.” Bob Barrett. Snapshot: The Art of Photography, II. Art TV, TVO and the Knowledge Network.

Selected collections

Bisha Hotel and ResidencesBorden and ElliotBurnac, TorontoCanadian Imperial Bank of CommerceCanyon RanchFrommer Lawrence & HaugGalileo Equity ManagementGriffiths McBurney and PartnersHerzig Eye InstituteHousehold Finance CorporationJonik Hospitality GroupLevrob HoldingsManulife Financial CorporationMirax, MoscowMuseum of Fine Arts, Houston TexasN M Rothschild & Sons CanadaOsler, Hoskin, & HarcourtPolaroid Corporation, CanadaPolaroid Corporation, USAPrincess Margaret Hospital FoundationProtocol EntertainmentRobert McLaughlin Gallery, OshawaRothschild Bank of Canada Ltd.Ryerson University, TorontoSiemens CreditSloan Mauran Interior DesignToshiba, CanadaWinnipeg Art Gallery, SaskatchewanXerox of CanadaYabu Pushelberg Design

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